Video, U.S. Border Patrol rescue on British empire’s Jost Van Dyke island, British Virgin Islands, 07 SEP 2017:
U.S. Border Patrol and Virginia State Urban Search and Rescue Team deploy to U.S. Virgin Islands, 08 SEP 2017
U.S. Border Patrol personnel deploying to U.S. Virgin Islands, 10 SEP 2017
Video, U.S. Navy med-evac ops 08/09 SEP 2017:
Video, U.S. Marines deploy from amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge to U.S. Virgin Islands, 09 SEP 2017:
Aviation Training Center Mobile, Alabama, 10 SEP 2017
Video, U.S. Coast Guard helicopters staged at Aviation Training Center Mobile, Alabama, 10 SEP 2017:
Video, U.S. Army Chinooks and Blackhawks staged at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center in Mississippi, 09 SEP 2017:
Other aircraft were sent to Mississippi Air National Guard’s Key Field and the Combat Readiness Training Center – Battlefield Airman Center in Gulfport.
USMC V-22 Ospreys staging at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Belle Chasse, Louisiana, 10 SEP 2017
Video, USCG aircraft from Air Station Clearwater, Florida, sent to Air Station New Orleans, Louisiana, 09 SEP 2017:
IRMA: FLORIDA PREPS, USAF BEGINS SUPPLY FLIGHTS TO PUERTO RICO!
HARVEY, FOOD CRISIS: MARINES DELIVER THE GOODS TO ORANGE!
Is it time to kill-off the old Hasegawa Heinkel 51 kit?
ICM (aka ICM Holding of Ukraine, I’m not sure what ICM means as even in Cyrillic the company uses ICM as its identifier) has made great advances since its early days of chunky low pressure injection kits, and is producing the most accurate (so far) version of the German biplane in 1:72 scale.
The main improvements are detailing and the upper wing. Overall the ICM kit has better detailing and a main wing that has the correct dihedral (upward sweep). The ancient Hasegawa kit (first issued in the 1970s) has no dihedral. However, it seems the ICM wingtips are questionable as they taper back, they should be more evenly rounded.
Click on the pics to make them bigger:
Rare Plane makes a vac-formed kit, the packaging photo looks to have dihedral in the upper wing but I’ve seen completed kits with no dihedral and oddly shaped horizontal tails. The problem with comparing vac-formed kits to injected kits is that a lot depends on the skill of the builder in cutting the parts from the plastic sheet and then shaping them to form a good join.
A drawback of the ICM kit is subtle, or no, attachment points. The old Hasegawa kit is easier to build. My conclusion in comparing the Hasegawa with the ICM He-51 is that while both can be built to look good the ICM has the better detailing and correct dihedral of the upper wing.
There are no major visual differences in the A, B or C versions of the Heinkel 51 (except with the float-plane version).
WORLD’S LARGEST C-141B STARLIFTER MODEL?
GROCERY STORE USES MODEL PLANES TO ATTRACT CUSTOMERS!
ITALERI 1:720 DEUTSCHLAND, LUTZOW, SCHEER & GRAF SPEE
USN personnel, some still wearing civies, fill sandbags near Mayport, Florida, 06SEP2017
Video, C-17 Globemaster-3 load-up at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, destination San Juan, Puerto Rico:
Florida National Guard personnel prepping for activation, 07SEP2017
Air Force Reserve combat aircraft in Florida flown to Texas, 06SEP2017
Not many users of today’s hi-tech internet/social media know that it originated with the U.S. military during the Cold War.
The first ‘internet’ was called arpanet. The U.S. Air Force explains in this video:
USMC Reserve units make Red Cross supply run to flooded Orange, Texas, 03 SEP 2017.
Video one:
Video two:
Orange, Texas
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations aircrews and Office of Field Operations officers conducted a bottled water mission to Beaumont, Texas, 01 SEP 2017.
They also delivered food, gas and electricity generators.
U.S. Coast Guard personnel based at Coast Guard Sector San Juan, Puerto Rico, already handing out Meal Ready Eat (MRE) and bottled water in anticipation of record setting Hurricane Irma.
Rescue boats are already staged.
The Hurricane Irma Incident Command Post has already been established.
IRMA: PUERTO RICO TARGETED, FLORIDA & TEXAS PREPS!
U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Juan, Puerto Rico, 06 SEP 2017
Official USN video report about prepping for natural disasters:
Check out www.ready.navy.mil