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Vaccination makes a big difference in reaching herd immunity (reality check; the original purpose of the creation of vaccines [as well as sick parties] was to quickly expand the ability for communities to develop ‘herd immunity’!)

Cambridge University reported, in December 2020, that flu vaccines are failing even more; Influenza vaccine failure in the tropics: a retrospective cohort study of waning effectiveness.

Children’sHealthDefense, 2019: Studies show pertussis outbreak caused by failed vaccine, not by failure to get vaccinated!

NationalHogFarmer, 2018: Is the vaccine failing me or did I fail the vaccine?

Biomin, 2017: MYCOTOXIN-INDUCED VACCINATION FAILURE

ResearchGate, 2016: Why Hep-C vaccine development is a failure

Cambridge University, 2015: Vaccine fails in child without spleen

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2002: Younger Age at Vaccination May Increase Risk of Varicella Vaccine Failure

Updated: SEVEN FACTS EXPLAIN WHY FLU VACCINES FAIL!

CoViD Shenanigans, December 2020: NOVEL VIRUS RENDERS NEW VACCINES USELESS?

Going Viral, December 2020: OPERATION WARP SPEED PROVES LEFTIST-LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA WRONG!

International, Kit Bashing, Technology, U.S.

Rivet Joint-Airseeker: RC-135V/W Patriot & Red Coat

Video December 31, 2020 Hutchins AAron

RC-135 Rivet Joint , Las Vegas, Nevada, 07DEC2021. U.S. Air Force photo by William R. Lewis.

Kadena Air Base, Japan, 12MAY2020. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Benjamin Sutton.

Personnel wearing masks board RC-135V at Kadena Air Base, Japan, 05MAY2020. USAF photo by Senior Airman Rhett Isbell.

Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, 21FEB2020. USAF photo by Manuel Garcia.

The Boeing RC-135V/W Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft are the most recent members of the RC-135 family, which can be traced back to 1964. The difference between the ‘V’ and ‘W’ variants depends upon which C-135 was upgraded/modified to Rivet Joint standard; RC-135Vs are upgraded RC-135Cs, while RC-135Ws are modified C-135Bs.

USAF photo by Manuel Garcia, 21FEB2020.

It provides near-real-time on-scene intelligence collection, primarily by detecting, identifying and geolocating signals throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.

Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, 28JUL2017. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Amy Lovgren.

Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, 28JUL2017. Photo by Technical Sergeant Amy Lovgren.

It can carry a crew of more than 30 people, and is powered by four CFM-56 turbofans.

Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, 27JUL2017. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Amy Lovgren.

Currently, U.S. Air Force Rivet Joints are flown by the 55th Wing, based out of Offutt Air Force Base (AFB), Nebraska.

Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 13MAR2012. USAF photo by Jeffrey Gates.

Time lapse video by Senior Airman Jacob Skovo-Lane, How to Wash your Rivet Joint, October 2018:

Video by Senior Airman Joshua Hoskins, Michigan Air National Guard re-fuels Rivet Joint over Afghanistan, January 2017:

Offutt AFB, 13MAR2012. USAF photo by Jeffrey Gates.

Over Afghanistan, 19JUN2011. USAF photo by Master Sergeant William Greer.

In August 2010, the USAF celebrated 20 years of Rivet Joint operations, with aircraft that are as much as 50 years old:

During the pandemic of 2020, believe it or not a mask was created for the nose of the RC-135. It is nicknamed The Mule Mask. Video interview of mask creator Technical Sergeant Kristen Horwith by Staff Sergeant Lexie West, 11AUG2020:

Video by (then) Senior Airmen Lexie West, USAF RC-135 at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom, November 2017:

RAF RC-135W Airseeker, Offutt AFB, Nebraska, 02MAY2018. USAF photo by Senior Airman Jacob Skovo-Lane.

For the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth of Nations, formerly British Empire) member United Kingdom, in 2011 the RC-135W was chosen as the replacement for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) BAe Nimrod R Mark 1. In November 2013 the RAF received it’s first RC-135W, flying it’s first mission in May 2014. The official British name for the RC-135W is Airseeker.

12FEB2017, Airseeker undergoing landing gear inspection, Offutt AFB. USAF photo by Delanie Stafford.

While taking part in Red Flag aerial wargames in February 2017, over Nevada, the RAF Airseeker developed main-landing gear problems and diverted to Offutt AFB in Nebraska.

12FEB2017, Airseeker undergoing landing gear inspection, Offutt AFB. USAF photo by Delanie Stafford.

It was determined that the Airseeker had a faulty main-landing gear sequence valve, which was preventing the gear from locking in the retracted position.

RAF Airseeker, Red Flag wargames, Nevada, 2017. Photo by Sergeant Neil Bryden.

Giant model of an RC-135, Lackland AFB, Texas. Photo by by Nadine Wiley De Moura.

The ancient Nova vacformed 1:72 scale KC-135 came with optional parts which you could use to make an RC version (but it has the older engines since it came out before the CFM-56 version, you could kit-bash using a newer CFM equipped AMT-ERTL KC-135R kit, which was also issued under the Airfix/Heller brands).

In the 1990s AMT-ERTL issued a 1:72 scale RC-135V, the version used during Desert Storm. Some kit bashers used the kit to model a RC-135W Airseeker.

An old photo of an RC-135, by Forrest Durham.

If you are a model builder, pay attention to the year of operation of the RC-135V/W you want to depict, because various antennae bumps and blades will appear and disappear depending on the latest electronic mission configuration. It seems the older the plane gets the more skin growths it develops.

Somewhere in The middle East (South West Asia), 04MAR2010. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Michelle Larche.

Refueling during the invasion of Iraq. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Ahlschwede, 09APR2003.

Over Nebraska, 01MAY2000. USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Nolan.

01MAY2000, USAF photo by Master Sergeant Dave Nolan.

Don’t forget the bottom.

Departing from a forward operating base during the invasion of Iraq. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Robert J. Horstman, 28APR2003.

11DEC1991, USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Scott P. Stewart.

Don’t confuse with the RC-135S Cobra Ball:

Not all RC-135S are covered in bumps and antennae. USAF photo by Senior Airman Amy Younger, 23MAY2020.

Variations of bumps and windows on RC-135S. Notice that the upper part of starboard wing, as well as nacelles, on some Cobra Balls are painted matt-black. USAF photo by Senior Airman Jeremy Smith, September 2001.

C-130: ONCE A RED COAT, NOW A BLUE ANGEL

Pandemic Overflight: KC-135

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD: 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

Vehicle I-D: MLRS, BRITISH RED COATS INVADE U.S. ARMY BASE IN GERMANY!

2018: M777 artillery proof the Red Coats have returned!

2017: U.S. ARMY COMMANDED BY RED COATS?

Canadian Red Coats control U.S. NORAD: SHHH, DON’T “CROSSTELL”, BUT U.S. AIR MILITIA UNITS & CANADA PREPPING FOR TFR EMERGENCY!

Influenza

CoViD Shenanigans: Novel Virus renders new vaccines useless?

December 21, 2020 Hutchins AAron

It has been confirmed that a novel version of CoViD-19, discovered at least a week ago, has evolved in the United Kingdom. This means more of the same shenanigans in 2021 because all those new CoViD vaccines are now potentially useless!

Here’s a list of links to news media reports on the latest CoViD shenanigans:

Could coronavirus trigger a sudden menopause years before your time?

Two strange symptoms suggest you’ve already had CoViD

A growing number of countries are banning flights from the U.K. to protect their citizens from the new variant of fast-spreading coronavirus

European Union to hold crisis talks as countries block travel from U.K. over new Covid strain

Remote Pacific islands escaped CoViD infections, yet their economies were destroyed anyway

AUSTRALIA (Commonwealth of Nations): Novel-CoViD-19 mutation shows up in Land Down Under

Why isn’t leftist lockdowns working? Authorities say cases from Sydney’s outbreak could be spreading

Western Australia claims CoViD lockdowns are reducing drug crimes

CAYMAN ISLAND: U.S. citizen spending four months in jail for violating lockdown

INDIA (Commonwealth of Nations): Health minister says there’s nothing to fear about the new version of covid coming out of United Kingdom

KOREA (south): New lockdown in Seoul over new outbreak, which includes hundreds of migrant workers sick with CoViD

NIGERIA (Commonwealth of Nations): E conomic hub bans large social gatherings to battle surging COVID-19 cases

SAINT KITTS & NEVIS (Commonwealth of Nations): Lowest infection rates in the Caribbean

SAUDI ARABIA: Suspends all international flights!

SINGAPORE (Commonwealth of Nations): M igrant worker infections three times higher

SOUTH AFRICA (Commonwealth of Nations): Antibody testing revealed that at least one third of healthy people were infected with CoViD during the ‘first wave’

Second wave of infections involve novel-covid-mutation, not sure if connected to new version found in United Kingdom

THAILAND: Massive lockdown of thousands of people after mystery outbreak in seafood market

UNITED KINGDOM (Commonwealth of Nations): “Serious disruption” feared as Dover halts all truck traffic to France

Scientists call for clarity on claim that new Covid-19 variant strain is 70% more contagious

Britain’s supermarket shelves may empty as France’s Covid ban on British truckers

Why isn’t mask wearing working? Surveys show three-quarters of Britons are wearing masks in mandatory areas, yet the infection is still spreading at a rate that requires 38 million Britons to be locked down!

UNITED STATES: U.S. Army scientists examine new U.K. coronavirus variant to see if it might be resistant to vaccine

President Trump might have medical condition preventing him from getting vaccinated

Contradicting Trump’s health advisors, Biden’s incoming surgeon general says mass-covid vaccinations not happening until summer, early fall!

Congress seals agreement on $900-billion COVID relief bill, that actually screws-over citizens with a pathetic $6-hundred check

California; Coronavirus prompts early closure of John Wayne Airport tower

Why aren’t lockdowns working in the leftist controlled Golden State? State sets nationwide record with 50K COVID-19 cases in 24 hours

Gov’na Newsom goes into quarantine AGAIN after being exposed to COVID-positive staffer

Wealthy Californians are offering $25-thousand donations so they can jump the line for a COVID-19 vaccine

Former Unemployment Office Worker Charged in Scheme to Steal Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Pandemic Unemployment Aid

Connecticut:

Connecticut National Guard set up 6-hundred bed frames for an alternate care facility at the Convention Center in Hartford, 18DEC2020.

Florida; Newspaper investigators discovered disparity between reported deaths and actual CoViD deaths in the Sunshine State

Hawaii; Mayor of Honolulu wants to remove rampant prison infection cases from public reporting!

New Mexico; Woman charged with assault & battery after coughing on healthcare worker

New York; Gov’na Cuomo claims that the U.K.’s novel-CoViD-19 mutation “is on a plane to JFK”

CoViD-19: SHENANIGANS RAMPING UP, ‘IMMUNE’ SANTA INFECTS 75 PEOPLE!

Influenza

CoViD-19: Global Rebellion!

December 18, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Incomplete list of links to news media reports of global CoViD-19 rebellions:

United Nations admits that CoViD lockdowns result in increased violence against women

Truck drivers on the continent of Africa protest over the CoViD lockdown of the border between Chad and Cameroon

CANADA: Anti-lockdown leaders labeled traitors by British empire (Commonwealth of Nations) government!

GERMANY: Courts rule that people cannot protest CoViD lockdowns, protestors considered ‘right wing’

German restaurant packed with stuffed pandas in coronavirus protest

FRANCE: People protest being labeled ‘non-essential’

INDIA: Officials Claim Riots Broke Out As Inmates Feared Contracting Covid-19

2020 in protests, riots, scams and scandals aggravated by CoViD

IRAQ: Seven dead in protests as Covid-19 hits Iraqi government worker salaries

NETHERLANDS: Arrests made during spontaneous anti-lockdown protests

PORTUGAL: Restaurant owners protest restrictions

SPAIN: Flamenco artists protest COVID-19 restrictions

SRI LANKA: coronavirus prison riot leaves eight dead, over 50 wounded

SWEDEN: King of Sweden calls for full lockdown!

UKRAINE: Police say lockdown protestors sent dozens of cops to the hospital

Entrepreneurs Protest Coronavirus Restrictions

CoViD outbreak hits Ukrainian army

UNITED KINGDOM: Biggest ever anti-lockdown demonstration to be unleashed!

Coronavirus outbreak at HMP Bedford leads to 24 hour lockdown and ‘mini riots’ by inmates

UNITED STATES: Coronavirus restrictions blamed for rise in violent crimes across the U.S.

California; Leftist labor u nions call for full shutdown of Los Angeles County over COVID-19

Anti-Lockdown demonstrators Shine Strobe Lights Onto Home of LA Mayor

Ventura County lockdown results in conflicts

Orange County hit by lockdown protests

As protests grow, Sacramento County reveals it still has $49-million in unspent CoViD relief funding!

Modesto nurses protest staffing ratios saying it’s not safe for COVID patients

CoViD outbreak at Lompoc Federal Prison

Florida; People publicly burn face masks

Illinois; Gun sales skyrocket

Indian; People block Porter County Health Department to protest lockdown

Kansas; Mayor of Dodge City effectively told to ‘get outta Dodge’ by residents protesting mask mandate, mayor resigns

Michigan; Chanting “open up now,” protesters target state health director Robert Gordon’s home

Minnesota; At least 150 businesses will re-open in protest of CoViD lockdown

National Guard will now be used against CoViD lockdown protestors

New York; Top global christian leader condemns CoViD lockdown protestors

NYC Bodegas Have Seen A Massive Uptick In Crimes due to COVID-19 restrictions

North Carolina; Republicans hold CoViD lockdown Xmas protest party

Oklahoma; Families of prisoners protest the spread of CoViD in state prisons

Pennsylvania; Gun sales skyrocket

Tennessee; For the first six months of CoViD, restrictions and lockdowns actually increased overall crime in Memphis, with murders about to set new record!

Washington; Demonstrators gathered outside Spokane County Courthouse, protest COVID-19 restrictions, vaccine

Wisconsin; Man Gets Life In Mental Hospital After Fatally Stabbing Wife, Sister-In-Law To Save Them From Coronavirus

Pandemic Lockdowns worse than the Pandemic: “…A POTENTIAL WIPE OUT OF AN ENTIRE GENERATION…”

CoViD lockdowns not stopping illegal immigrants!

CoViD, April 2020: ¡REBELIÓN PANDÉMICA!

CoViD-19: Covert operation to control global food supply?

International, Technology

End of the Cold War to Ukraine Crisis: No more Open Skies, or whatever happened to the OC-135B?

Video November 30, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Keith Reed the Third, 17JUL1997.

On 24MAR1992, the Treaty on Open Skies was created as a way of being sure that countries that have military weapons (military-grade arms) control agreements are complying. However, it wouldn’t be until 01JAN2002 that Open Skies actually went into effect, with 34 countries signed-on (but only 20 ratified). Interestingly, the first OC-135B was ready to launch in June 1993!

Newly independent Ukrainian Air Force personnel get their photo taken in front of their Open Skies Antonov An-30. Photo by Technical Sergeant Brad Fallin, 14APR1997.

Russian Open Skies Antonov An-30, 25SEP2009. Photo by Alan Lebeda.

On 22NOV2020, the United States officially withdrew from the Treaty on Open Skies, so far the only country to do so. It’s interesting that the many countries who did not sign-on to Open Skies, like nuclear armed China, condemned the U.S. withdrawal.

Photo by Kelly White. 23APR2020, U.S. Air Force OC-135B (6-12670) stripped and awaiting what would become its final Open Skies livery.

But it is more complicated than U.S. President Donald Trump being a mean old ‘orange man’, it’s about other treaty signators not complying, and the fact that updating the now ‘ancient’ observation technology is just too cost prohibitive for taxpayers.

A naked OC-135B anticipates its final Open Skies paint job on Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. Photo by Kelly White, 23APR2020.

Here’s a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) video, 22MAY2020, in which NATO accuses Russia (Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) of violating the Open Skies agreement:

Photo by Charles Haymond. An OC-135B Open Skies (converted WC-135 weather research) aircraft takes off from Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska,14SEP2018.

Photo by Technical Sergeant Heather Salazar. Voyenno-Vozdushnye Sily Rossii (Military Air Forces of Russia) Open Skies Tupolev Tu-154M RF-85655, lands at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, 14AUG2019.

From 1992-93, three WC-135B aircraft were modified for the Open Skies mission, re-designated OC-135B. For some reason, after only a few years based at Offutt Air Force Base (AFB), Nebraska, the first OC-135B was sent straight to ‘moth-balls’ at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, in 1997.

Photo by Charles J. Haymond, 14SEP2018.

This OC-135B conducted observation flights over Haiti, after the 7.0 earthquake in 2010. Photo by Senior Airman Perry Aston, 16JAN2010.

Despite the OC-135Bs being used on other non-Open Skies observations, such as natural disasters, according to some reports the remaining two OC-135Bs are now available for sale as a result of the U.S. exit from Open Skies: “We’ve started liquidating the equipment. Other countries can come purchase or just take the airframes. They are really old and cost-prohibitive for us to maintain. We don’t have a use for them anymore.”

Photo by Staff Sergeant John Hillier. 01FEB2018, a Commonwealth of Nations (aka British Empire) Royal Canadian Air Force C-130J arrives at Rosecrans Memorial Airport, Missouri, joining units from France and Czech Republic for Open Skies training with the Missouri Air National Guard.

What many people might not know is that the Open Skies operation required the use of old school film technology. In this 2015 U.S. Air Force video report, by John Harrington, it’s revealed that the old technology was getting difficult to maintain due to no new parts:

Here is an October 2016 USAF video (by John Harrington) explaining how the imagery captured by the OC-135Bs are processed:

Photo by Delanie Stafford. Snow removal from Open Skies OC-135B, 03FEB2015, Offutt AFB.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Russian examine a U.S. OC-135B, 27FEB2007.

Via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Italian C-130 with SAMSON observation pod.

23NOV2020: Russia warns remaining Open Skies members not to share data with United States

11NOV2020: French personnel to use Romanian An-30 for Open Skies flyover of Russia

Realize that the United States and Russia have always conducted observation flights of each other, Open Skies was just an attempt to make it more militarily non-threatening.

28NOV2020: Russian Sukhoi 27 scrambled to intercept U.S. RC-135 over Black Sea

27NOV2020: Russia accuses NATO of conducting more than 1300 non-Open Skies spy flights

There were rumors that the two remaining Open Skies OC-13Bs were up for sale in 2020, however, the aircraft were given a fresh ‘Open Skies’ paint job and sent to the ‘boneyard’ in Arizona. USAF video by David Farley, 13MAY2021:

OC-135B Open Skies on Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 09JUN2021. USAF photo by Senior Airman Alex Miller.

July 2022: NATO-Romania puts to use an ex-Open Skies Antonov 30.

U.S. taxpayer expense: NASA’S Russian Tupolev 144 SST

Pandemic Overflight: KC-135

Bare Metal: KC-135R GETS STRIPPED

EC-135E FIRE-BIRD, 10329 COMES BACK TO LIFE, AGAIN! OR, WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR EXTRA KC-135 KIT.

HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036

Terminator: SpaceX satellites helping the new U.S. Space Force to target you from above

Kit Bashing

New clothes for a Texas F-16

Image November 22, 2020 Hutchins AAron

U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant Jeremy Roman, 05NOV2020.

The 301st Fighter Wing, 457th Fighter Squadron, U.S. Air Force Reserve celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2019, yet only now has dolled-up one of its F-16Cs for the occasion.

USAF photos by Master Sergeant Jeremy Roman, 05NOV2020.

According to USAF reports the painting was delayed (official reason not made public so far), but the aircraft was finally unveiled at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, 05NOV2020.

USAF photos by Master Sergeant Jeremy Roman, 05NOV2020.

Here’s some pics of the Texas Air National Guard 149th Fighter Wing F-16s.

Texas Air Guard F-16 in Chile, 14OCT2014. Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Miguel Arellano.

Texas Air National Guard F-16 in Wisconsin, 16APR2013. Texas Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Miguel Arellano.

The aircraft is based at Joint Base San Antonio. Here’s some pics from September 2011:

Photos by Staff Sergeant Phil Fountain.

Vehicle I-D: NEW F-16 WRAITH! NIGHT FIGHTER WW-2 STYLE!

Technology

Terminator: SpaceX satellites all about A-P-N-T/L-R-P-C-F-T?

Video November 22, 2020 Hutchins AAron

“The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
keeping watch on the wicked and the good.”-Proverbs 15:3, New International Version Bible

“For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing, and from now on you will be at war.”-2 Chronicles 16:9, New International Version Bible

Photo by Technical Sergeant Brittany Murphy.

On 21NOV2020, SpaceX-Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying a Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite. The satellite is ostensibly going to be used to monitor ocean levels.

SpaceX launch control, Vandenberg AFB. Photo by Michael Peterson.

On 15NOV2020, a SpaceX-Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying astronauts from the U.S. and Japan to the International Space Station. Video by Airman Thomas Sjoberg (it takes a while for the launch sound to come in because of how far away the camera is):

U.S. Navy 647th Logistics Readiness Squadron’s SpaceX Guardian Angel video explainer report, with overly dramatic music, by Daniel Mayberry:

On 05NOV2020, a SpaceX-Falcon 9 launched from Cape Canaveral carrying a new GPS-3-4 (GPS III-4) satellite for the new U.S. Space Force. Video by Airmen Thomas Sjoberg:

And now for the possible connection to a new way of killing people: APNT = Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing

LRPCFT = Long Range Precision Fires Cross Functional Teams

U.S. Army Futures Command video explaining APNT/LRPCFT and how it will rely on machine learning and new GPS satellites to kill people in the future:

Official site: www.starlink.com

17NOV2020: SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are about to ruin stargazing

October 2020: There’s more than 8-hundred SpaceX Starlink satellites in orbit now

U.S. Army, 2018: ‘MICROWAVE’ BEAM WEAPON AIMING TO HEAT YOU UP!

Terminator 2016: ISRAEL ON VERGE OF CREATING ALL SEEING, KNOWING, POWERFUL SATELLITE TO CONTROL THE WORLD!

U.S. Army, 2014: CREATING NEW WIRELESS SPY SYSTEM TO BE TESTED IN TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO

From 2011, Global Warming Paradox: NASA launches satellites to find out why the melting polar ice caps are not raising ocean levels.

Technology

Wrecked F-111E finds new home in South Carolina

Video November 19, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Photo by Master Sergeant Cohen Young.

In February 2012, a U.S. Air Force F-111E Aardvark found its way home to its old unit, the 20th Fighter Wing.

The 20th FW was born in South Carolina a couple of years after World War Two.

After many changes, the 20th FW was sent to the Commonwealth of Nations‘ (formerly British Empire)-United Kingdom member of England, from 1970 to January 1994, on the Royal Air Force’s Upper Heyford base.

In 1991, the 20th FW’s F-111s went to Turkey to take part in Operation Desert Storm, with this specific Aardvark logging 21 combat missions. When RAF Upper Heyford was shutdown the 20th FW finally returned to its birthplace of South Carolina.

Note the swing wing hinge.

Note the vortex generators inside the air intake. (Read NASA report Flight-Determined Characteristics of an Air Intake System on an F-111A Airplane. The F-111 suffered from Mach speed induced engine stall due to the interaction between the sonic shock wave and the air intake, thus many things were adapted to reduce this phenomena, including vortex generators shown in Figure 5 of the report.)

Video report by Airman First Class Blake Hubbard, 03FEB2012:

The 20th FW historians say this particular F-111E spent its entire service life with the 20th FW in England from 1970 until the end of 1993. This specific F-111E was imprisoned at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base (AFB) from 1994 to January 2012. In 2009, discussions began with the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to negotiate the release of the Aardvark from Davis-Monthan.

Photo by Airman First Class Hunter Brady.

After four or five months (depending on which official report you read) of restoration work, the F-111E was ready to take on its new job as Shaw AFB gate guard.

Video report by Airman First Class Blake Hubbard, 12SEP2012:

Shaw AFB: A FLYING M48A1 TANK?

Technology

Green Mountain Boys find a new home for an old F-4D Phantom-2

Video November 15, 2020 Hutchins AAron

Photos by Technical Sergeant Sarah Mattison.

At the end of May 2015, the Vermont Air National Guard moved a former 158th FW F-4D (65-712) Phantom-2 to a new, and supposedly phinal home; guarding the entrance to Camp Johnson.

Video by Staff Sergeant Jason Brace:

The F-4D was located on the grounds of the Camp Johnson Vermont National Guard Museum and Library (aka Vermont Military Museum). That former location now being held by an F-16.

PHINAL UN-MANNED PHANTOM PHLIGHT

1/1 SCALE F-4 PHANTOM-2 MODEL

Utah: PHINAL PHANTOM PHLIGHT, NO MORE USAF F-4 PHANTOMS!

Technology

Undignified Death of LVTP-5

Video November 9, 2020 Hutchins AAron

In April 2019, the administrators of U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii decided that it was time to renovate the base, which was code for getting rid of the old Landing Vehicle Tracked Personnel-5 ‘Gate Guard’. Various renovation projects on MCBHawaii have been ongoing for more than a decade.