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Technology

Changing of the Guard; F-100

Video

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 22SEP2021.

On 22SEP2021, because of a new ‘rule’ the Iowa Air National Guard (IANG) relieved 60 years old F-100 code named Shillelagh from its duty as gate guard, in front of the 185th Air Refueling Wing HQ, on Sioux Gateway Airport/Colonel Bud Day Field in Sioux City.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 22SEP2021.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 22SEP2021.

IANG video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, with an interview of Technical Sergeant Kevin Brown explaining that under new rules gate guards can not longer be painted on-site, they must be painted in designated paint shops:

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 22SEP2021.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 22SEP2021.

Shillelagh is going to be thoroughly cleaned and painted, and returned to gate guard duty by Spring of 2022.

Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 22SEP2021.

IANG time lapse video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot:

Massachusetts Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Melanie J. Casineau.

04MAY2013, annual re-dedication of F-100 memorial on Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts.

MANG photo by Master Sergeant Sandra Niedzwiecki.

In November 2010, an F-100 Super Sabre was relieved of gate guard duty on Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts. It was shipped to Robbins Air Force Base, Georgia, for restoration.

MANG photo by Master Sergeant Sandra Niedzwiecki.

2019:  More F-100 SUPER SABER GATE GUARDS

Drone Wars:  QF-100 SUPER SABRE

Technology

Once a Red Coat, now a Blue Angel

Video

The retired ‘Fat Albert’ C-130T, brought out for public Pandemic moral display. (Texas Air National Guard photo by Julie Briden-Garcia, 06MAY2020.

On 06MAY2020, the retired C-130T Fat Albert was brought out to help fight CoViD-19 at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas.  After 30-thousand hours of flying in support of the Blue Angels demo team, C-130T Fat Albert was retired to static display duty in 2019.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.

The new C-130J Fat Albert on second functional check-flight over Cambridge, England, 28JUL2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 28JUL2020.

The ‘new’ Blue Angels Fat Albert is actually an old British empire Royal Air Force C-130J, which underwent rebuild by Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group in United Kingdom.  A Forbes report says it cost U.S. taxpayers $29.7-million.  (which isn’t too bad, considering that in 2014 a new C-130J would cost between $67-million and $167-million depending on options)

Video by Marshall Aerospace, dressing the bare-metal C-130J in its new Blue Angels uniform:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist First Class Jess Gray, 06AUG2020.

On 06AUG2020, C-130J Fat Albert arrived on Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Texas.

Video, by Petty Officer Second Class Cody Hendrix, C-130J Fat Albert flying over algae bloom off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 17AUG2020:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Cody Hendrix, 17AUG2020.

Nobody is on the beach, what is this, CoViD-19 lockdown?

Photo by AAron B. Hutchins, 1989.

This is a photo I took of a C-130T Fat Albert at the Vandenberg AFB air show in California, Spring 1989.  Notice that it is not painted blue and white.

Bare Metal: C-130 PAINT PREP, OR THE EMPEROR GETS SOME NEW CLOTHES

 

C-130T, Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, 04MAR2014.  Photo by Staff Sergeant Oscar L Olive the Fourth.

C-130T promotional video by Staff Sergeant Oscar L Olive the Fourth:

International

Weird Weather: Last week’s tornado strike on Japan was bigger than first thought, Super Cells spawn multiple tornadoes at the same time!

On May 6, 2012, Japan’s Kanto region was hit by tornadoes.  Now May 12, the Japan Meteorological Agency says the events were bigger than first thought.

One tornado hit Ibaraki and Tochigi prefectures, leaving damage zone 31 kilometers (19 miles) long and 650 meters (403.8 miles) wide!  It is the second largest recorded path of destruction in Japan in the past 50 years!

Three other tornadoes hit on the same day, in Fukushima and Ibaraki prefectures. The three tornadoes formed at the same time!

Japanese weather experts say a sudden and strong upward movement of air was generated by fast building clouds.  The Super Cells measured up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide!