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Post by Mark O on Nov 15, 2013 9:34:12 GMT 9
www.thisdayinaviation.com/11/14/.. The first entry today from 1974 about the F-15 really puts it in perspective just how old that design is. Imagine if the P-51 was still flying in active duty units in 1974. It would have still been younger than the F-15 design is here in 2013!
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Nov 15, 2013 9:45:00 GMT 9
www.thisdayinaviation.com/11/14/.. The first entry today from 1974 about the F-15 really puts it in perspective just how old that design is. Imagine if the P-51 was still flying in active duty units in 1974. It would have still been younger than the F-15 design is here in 2013!
By the current standards, "fly them for as long as they are capable of getting off the ground, and back down again", the Six, Thud, Phantom II, A-7, OV-10 and others should still be operational.
After all, the BUFF, T-38, A-10, Herky, C-5, KC-135, KC-10 and some others, including Hueys are still doing the job, and expected to for many more years.
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Post by Jim on Nov 15, 2013 14:03:15 GMT 9
www.thisdayinaviation.com/11/14/.. The first entry today from 1974 about the F-15 really puts it in perspective just how old that design is. Imagine if the P-51 was still flying in active duty units in 1974. It would have still been younger than the F-15 design is here in 2013! They are close if you only count USAF flight years, it would only be 7 years difference.. If you count the last military use (Dominican Republic), the P-51 beats it by 10 years as the last military use ended in 1984= 44 years. The f-15 took years to develop, the 51 took days- 149 to be exact and it looks like an airplane |
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Post by pat perry on Feb 6, 2014 9:08:16 GMT 9
Feb 5, 1958 was not a good day in Nuke inventory control. The missing Mark 15 has never been found and is considered to be “irretrievably lost.” It is known as “The Tybee Bomb.” Pat P. www.thisdayinaviation.com/5-february-1958/ |
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 6, 2014 9:14:33 GMT 9
Feb 5, 1958 was not a good day in Nuke inventory control. The missing Mark 15 has never been found and is considered to be “irretrievably lost.” It is known as “The Tybee Bomb.” Pat P. www.thisdayinaviation.com/5-february-1958/
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Post by Diamondback on Feb 6, 2014 11:12:41 GMT 9
Already been done as an NCIS episode, Chaplain.  DiNozzo's dad, Ziva undercover and a black-market salvaged Mk 15... a key point of the plot was a straight ripoff of a combination of Howard Hughes's life and Diamonds are Forever. Still, it was entertaining... more so than thinking that there's a real one Still Out There Somewhere, especially with what a Zombie at full yield could do.. |
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Feb 6, 2014 12:23:03 GMT 9
Already been done as an NCIS episode, Chaplain. DiNozzo's dad, Ziva undercover and a black-market salvaged Mk 15... a key point of the plot was a straight ripoff of a combination of Howard Hughes's life and Diamonds are Forever. Still, it was entertaining... more so than thinking that there's a real one Still Out There Somewhere, especially with what a Zombie at full yield could do..
If Cussler writes a book about it, I will read it, as he does a good job of putting facts in to a good fiction read.
It would be a good Dirk Pitt story, as he seems to be the one who does all the retrievals of things in water, in Cussler books.
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Post by pat perry on Feb 7, 2014 7:32:46 GMT 9
 To Chief Duane D. Hackney, U.S. Air Force, Deceased in 1993. Duane was a guy you hoped would never have to come after you, but you were glad when he did. www.thisdayinaviation.com/6-february-1967/6 February 1967: That Others May Live. Airman 2nd Class Duane D. Hackney, U.S. Air Force, 37th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, rescued the pilot of a downed aircraft and earned the Air Force Cross. He was the first living recipient of the Air Force Cross. With more than 70 individual medals, Chief Master Sergeant Hackney was the most highly decorated enlisted man in Air Force history. Pat P.
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Post by LBer1568 on Feb 7, 2014 10:03:08 GMT 9
I had the pleasure to have shared 10 weeks at Gunter AFB with then SMSgt Duane D. Hackney. He was a great guy who died way too early. I had the opportunity to share class time and after duty time with him. First day in class he was singled out and asked to speak to entire Class. He was very humble about his career. But man, his chest was filled with medals and ribbons. Our class was the 10th Ann'y Senior NCO Academy class and we had all the surviving CMSAF in attendance. They all asked that he stand and be recognized for his devotion to duty. He was very embarrassed about it, but was a true warrior and did as he was asked. He got one hell of an ovation from all the VIP's in attendance. It took over 20 minutes to welcome all the Generals and Wing Commander O-6's in attendance as well as some 20+ Command Senior Enlisted Advisors (Command CMSgt). Lorin |
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Post by pat perry on Feb 7, 2014 11:27:00 GMT 9
I had the pleasure to have shared 10 weeks at Gunter AFB with then SMSgt Duane D. Hackney. He was a great guy who died way too early. I had the opportunity to share class time and after duty time with him. First day in class he was singled out and asked to speak to entire Class. He was very humble about his career. But man, his chest was filled with medals and ribbons. Our class was the 10th Ann'y Senior NCO Academy class and we had all the surviving CMSAF in attendance. They all asked that he stand and be recognized for his devotion to duty. He was very embarrassed about it, but was a true warrior and did as he was asked. He got one hell of an ovation from all the VIP's in attendance. It took over 20 minutes to welcome all the Generals and Wing Commander O-6's in attendance as well as some 20+ Command Senior Enlisted Advisors (Command CMSgt). Lorin Great story Lorin. Wish I could have met Duane. Pat P. |
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Post by Lee Nellist on Feb 8, 2014 2:19:50 GMT 9
I had the pleasure of being acquainted with Duane Hackney during his time at K.I. Sawyer. He was a very down to earth person and you would never know his history. He was the fir Sgt of the security police for a time and was actually fired for being to hard on the troops. He told me about it and said they just didn't realize he was only trying to prepare the troops to survive. Must have been the start of political corredt.
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Post by Mark O on Feb 8, 2014 15:20:40 GMT 9
I had the pleasure of being acquainted with Duane Hackney during his time at K.I. Sawyer. He was a very down to earth person and you would never know his history. He was the fir Sgt of the security police for a time and was actually fired for being to hard on the troops. He told me about it and said they just didn't realize he was only trying to prepare the troops to survive. Must have been the start of political corredt.
Lee  Crazy... Reminds me of the advice I got when I made Master Sergeant. "Shut up, and color." In other words; don't make any waves. I hated that advice, and disregarded it. |
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Post by Jim on Feb 9, 2014 1:43:38 GMT 9
I had the pleasure of being acquainted with Duane Hackney during his time at K.I. Sawyer. He was a very down to earth person and you would never know his history. He was the fir Sgt of the security police for a time and was actually fired for being to hard on the troops. He told me about it and said they just didn't realize he was only trying to prepare the troops to survive. Must have been the start of political corredt.
Lee Crazy... Reminds me of the advice I got when I made Master Sergeant. "Shut up, and color." In other words; don't make any waves. I hated that advice, and disregarded it. PC....... Sounds like the trouble I got into with my CO shortly after arriving at Williams AFB (ATC Pilot Training) coming out of the real AF... I got tried of having a TSGT 1st Sgt chew my *** out because so many of my 40 plus people failed to read the bulletin board at least once a week and sign it, that I marched them as a flight from the hangar to the orderly room(qrtr. mile away) and sent them in one at a time and was making them reform after coming back out.... I was told by the CO that they were men and I was to treat them as such and he dismissed them..... I told him, "Well major, it looks like you don't need me in your outfit when I get reprimanded in front of the men I am supposed to lead." He blocked every attempt I made to get transferred from OMS to FMS. Don't know who made whose time worse during his last year as CO, him or me..  Finally the Chief of Maint. called me into his office and asked me to take it easy on the major. Don Quixote USAF ret. |
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Post by pat perry on Feb 13, 2014 0:51:17 GMT 9
The Last Peacemaker: This gigantic airplane, a Convair B-36J-10-CF Peacemaker, serial number 52-2827, was the very last of the ten-engine strategic bombers built at Fort Worth, completed 1 July 1954. It was delivered to the Strategic Air Command, 92nd Bombardment Wing, Heavy, at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, 14 August 1954. Later, it was assigned to the 95th Bombardment Wing at El Paso, Texas. The last one built, it was also the last operational B-36. On 12 February 1959, after 4 years, 5 months and 30 days service, the Air Force returned it to Fort Worth. 52-2827 departed Biggs AFB at 11:00 a.m. under the command of Major Frederick J. Winter, with 23 persons on board. It touched down at Amon Carter Field at 2:55 p.m. After a ceremony attended by thousands, the bomber was officially retired. It was put on display at Amon Carter Field. After decades of neglect, the bomber was placed in the care of the Pima Air and Space Museum at Tucson for restoration and display.www.thisdayinaviation.com/12-february-1959/This aircraft was restored several times due to vandalism and sitting in the hot Texas sun. It was last restored and was being kept disassembled in a Lockheed Martin warehouse while the local Joint AFB in Ft Worth was going to grant some land for a covered pavilion that a volunteer group was trying to raise money to construct. The fund raising must have failed or else the USAF Museum system got involved and moved the aircraft to PIMA Museum. A similar situation occurred to the Memphis Belle B-17 and it was moved from Memphis to the Museum of the USAF at Dayton where it is being restored for the last time and will be put on display. It's a shame that single displays or small aircraft museums often end up dying out due to lack of local support and funding. Pat P. |
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Post by Jim on Feb 13, 2014 4:07:18 GMT 9
It is expensive, ask Lee and Lani at KI Sawyer....... The one thing in their favor, the SIX is, for all practical purposes, privately owned- they can sell it to anyone they want to...........
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Apr 18, 2014 23:18:33 GMT 9
Two significant events took place on 18 April during WW2.
First: On 18 April 1942, 16 B-25 Mitchell Bombers took off from the USS Hornet, and flew to Japan to drop their bombs, 4,000 pounds worth in each plane.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/18-april-1942/
Second: On 18 April 1943, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, a passenger in a Japanese Betty Bomber, was killed when P-38s flying from Guadalcanal shot his plane down.
Yamamoto was the admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor, but warned Japan that waking up the sleeping giant of America would be the downfall of Japan.
He was right.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/18-april-1943/
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Post by pat perry on May 22, 2014 7:31:31 GMT 9
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Post by Mark O on May 22, 2014 17:00:14 GMT 9
Horseshoes, and nukes... I mean hand grenades. Whatever!  BTW, technically they "missed" over Hiroshima too. Supposed to have detonated over the "T" bridge. |
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Post by Jim on May 22, 2014 23:20:15 GMT 9
Horseshoes, and nukes... I mean hand grenades. Whatever! BTW, technically they "missed" over Hiroshima too. Supposed to have detonated over the "T" bridge. Not by much..............................  The area around ground zero after the Hiroshima bombing. The "T"-shaped Aioi Bridge is visible near the center.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 18, 2014 9:55:18 GMT 9
Those of you who were at Castle or have stopped at the Castle Museum will appreciate this story from This Day in Aviation History.
There is a technical error in the story, which I wrote Bryan Swopes about.
See if you notice it.
The error has been corrected.
It listed the engines as J-35s, not J-47s.
According to Boeing, the J-35s were only used on the prototype.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/17-june-1986/
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To Chief Duane D. Hackney, U.S. Air Force, Deceased in 1993.
Crazy... Reminds me of the advice I got when I made Master Sergeant.
Finally the Chief of Maint. called me into his office and asked me to take it easy on the major. 
