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Post by Mark O on Mar 17, 2013 9:46:01 GMT 9
What a FANTASTIC find!!!  THREE of the aircraft in that photo are on the "need" pictures of list!! 57-2542, 59-0013, and 59-0017!!What a great photo! Here is a bit larger version you won't have to click on, but it won't zoom in quite as much as the one Pat P. posted.  |
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Post by shadowgunner on Mar 17, 2013 15:44:11 GMT 9
Shadowgunner, Great photos! + karma on you. That cover with Six over GG Bridge. Is that a link to a blogspot blog? Just wondering. Pat P Pat; still trying to backtrack source of it. I'll let you know. Jim M |
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Post by shadowgunner on Mar 17, 2013 15:49:17 GMT 9
5FIS 90002, bay doors open, aft rails down with WSEM loaded.  EDIT MOW: I've got this same shot, but a little better res on the 5th page. Great shot!  ![]() Sorry MOW for the duplication, I missed that one.  |
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Post by shadowgunner on Mar 17, 2013 15:54:47 GMT 9
 49 FIS, Buckley Field 1970 ![]() 590083 |
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Post by MOW on Mar 17, 2013 15:57:38 GMT 9
5FIS 90002, bay doors open, aft rails down with WSEM loaded. EDIT MOW: I've got this same shot, but a little better res on the 5th page. Great shot! Sorry MOW for the duplication, I missed that one. Hello no! No sorry needed, this is great we're finding all these. I have seen several in this long post alone that were better quality than the ones I had and updated the photo gallery accordingly. This is good stuff. |
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Post by MOW on Mar 17, 2013 15:59:16 GMT 9
An email forwarded by Bobski (F-106 Reunion Coordinator)
Beautiful photo of F106 "Delta Formation" from Bill Moore (attached file).
Reminder for all you guys to please bring your photos and mementos to
the reunion! Try to bring your photos in a digital format if you can (USB
stick, SD memory card or CD/DVD).
Thanks Bill!
Bobski (Bob Kwiecinski)
Bob, I'll try to send you a picture taken over the North
Dakota (5th FIS) farmlands in, I believe, 1962. Lt/Col Jacksel M. Broughton was
leading (note the 2 "B" Models flying # 2 & 3) I was flying the #5 (out of
position). I can't remember the other pilots, but this was a real challenge
formation. The pilots all got a copy of the picture. Broughton (ex Thunderbird
Leader) was the best lead I ever flew wing with. Hope to make the reunion, but
not sure yet. I had 5 years and 1,000 hours in the bird. 5th FIS (Minot) &
95 FIS (Dover). Got my M-2 pin in March,1960. Ciao, Bill Moore
Great photo! I've added it to the 5th page www.f-106deltadart.com/5fis.htm57-2542, 57-2545, 59-0003, 59-0005, 59-0010, 59-0011, 59-0013, 59-0017 |
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Post by shadowgunner on Mar 17, 2013 15:59:26 GMT 9
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Post by shadowgunner on Mar 17, 2013 16:03:41 GMT 9
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Post by shadowgunner on Mar 17, 2013 16:04:59 GMT 9
 84FIS Hamilton AFB ![]() 1971 |
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Post by pat perry on Mar 18, 2013 1:51:09 GMT 9
Bobski's All F-106 Reunion is helping dredge up some new F-106 pictures. Here's his latest email. These pics are low-res and I have asked Bob to check with Jim to see if higher res pics are available. Pat P. Bobski wrote:All F106 Troops, Jim McNab sent a couple nice photos and a story about A/C "011" or as he called it "Ball 11." We had this bird at Selfridge and we called it "Oceans 11." See the 2 photos below. Bobski Jim McNab wrote:Bob, Sure, feel free to. I hope others contibute photos, stories, and other memories of their "Six Experience". Regards, Jim McNab PS- Moto... scroll down and read all the messages. Interesting photo. I noticed the 'A' model in the photo at the right/aft of the formation is 590011. "Balls Eleven", as we called it, was my aircraft at William Tell 84'. On one of the profiles while flying Balls Eleven, I shot down a PQM-102 drone target aircraft. A few years later, the hunter became the hunted. The first of the two attached photos show Balls Eleven as I flew it at William Tell 84', and the the second as it was when it was serving as a target drone. Balls Eleven served well over her lifetime. She came to a sad end on September 19, 1996 when flying as a target drone at Tyndall AFB, FL. After takeoff, the main landing would not retract and she was destroyed on the range over the Gulf of Mexico. She was a good aircraft. Jim McNab, Major California Air National Guard, Retired   |
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Post by Mark O on Apr 2, 2013 0:45:49 GMT 9
Time for a Six-Pic! Interesting perspective. Almost makes it look like a single tank hung centerline, but you can tell they are in a slight bank, or the photo was taken at an angle. I believe those are the subsonic tanks as well.  |
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Post by otisafbkid on Apr 30, 2013 6:42:21 GMT 9
LOVE this one! Obviously a "posed" picture, and must have been before the supersonic drop tanks were fitted to the airplane.
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Post by shadowgunner on Jul 18, 2013 9:29:09 GMT 9
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Post by Gene on Feb 13, 2014 3:47:51 GMT 9
 got this from the online airforce magazine...my avatar here is with mt. rainier in the background....won me second place in the a.f. photo contest for 1976... |
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Post by Mark O on Apr 3, 2014 16:54:55 GMT 9
Looks like it's time for a Six Pic...
AP "wirephoto" (remember that term?) from WT70. (Words... words...)
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Post by LBer1568 on Apr 4, 2014 1:33:54 GMT 9
Mark, I remember seeing this photo in the base paper at Tyndall during WT 70. I worked as a Judges assistant during the meet. I worked debriefing and read the WSEM/MSR tapes/photos after each mission. We actually had some major failures in Weapons systems such as one that in pre-fire MSR run gave a time of flight of "0". That was an impossible number as 6 was the minimum Time of Flight. That meant, if we had not found it, that the explosive loaded Genie would have fire as soon as released and engine fired (After the required G force was met). And to make matters worse, the certification MSR run prior to arriving at Tyndall showed the same values. The Squadron was docked some points and the Team that certified the MSR was decertified and put through some additional training. I went to Aircraft with MSgt Jim Neece and we found a umbilical cable with two wires soldered together. So who knows how long the problem was overlooked. It was shortly after that that ADC went to a two man cert process for WSEM and MSR. Needed a 7-level to inspect after someone else read them. Lorin |
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Post by Mark O on Jul 1, 2014 4:13:57 GMT 9
Found this on eBay, and had to have it. It's an AP photo from 14 May 1963 of what I'm pretty sure is a Six from the 95th FIS. A couple of VERY COOL things in this pic. First, the gentleman in the center is Retired, Major General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois. He is known as "The One-Man Air Force", and I urge all to google him!! The second is the pilot is wearing the ejection seat "stirrups." Just an awesome shot! (Now, if I only knew the tail number!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Foulois |
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jul 1, 2014 8:31:28 GMT 9
I don't know if it is still hanging from the ceiling at Will Rogers Airport, in Oklahoma City, but they used to have a Wright Flyer that Fulois flew.
It was suspended over the main entry of the passenger terminal.
In reading books on U.S. Aviation History, and biographies of early pilots, Fulois was as well liked as a whiskey bottle at a Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting.
He clashed with just about every one I have read.
Was he at least partly responsible for the Air Force being a separate service?
Sure was, along with others, like Mitchell, Doolittle and Rickenbacker.
Guess you don't have to be liked to get things done.
Seems each of those I mentioned clashed with Military and Political "leadership".
May be a lesson in that for those contemplating becoming Military leaders.
Jim Too
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Post by LBer1568 on Jul 1, 2014 9:27:05 GMT 9
I would venture that the person on the right in pilots suit and wearing the strap-ons is not a F-106 pilot, but a guest. The pilot would be the guy on left with a six badge on sleeve and wearing the custom boot with built in cable adapter. All of our pilots wore the boots with built in stirrups for the ejection seat. In my years on the six I never saw a pair of those. When I got my first B-Model ride I was issued a pair of boots with the stirrups. The seat had a pair of cables with a small ball on end to fit into the slot in stirrups. In the early years our crews also wore the pressure suits for most missions as well. And the international orange was favorite color suit. Lorin |
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