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Post by Mark O on Jun 18, 2014 16:29:52 GMT 9
Way to go Jim Too!! Would have loved to seen that flight! Still gotta get out to that museum some day...
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 27, 2014 0:45:17 GMT 9
Twenty-six June 1948 saw the start of the Berlin Airlift.
It ended on 30 September 1949, when the USSR re-opened the highways and rail lined in to Berlin from the West.
This piece is from This Day in Aviation History.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/26-june-1948/
If you have not read the Candy Bomber or other histories of the Berlin Airlift, you have missed reading about one of the finest missions the Air Force undertook.
Jim Too
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 27, 2014 7:43:10 GMT 9
There was a story on the local Santone news about a young lady, named Amelia Earhart, who started off to-day to follow, and complete the flight of the other Amelia Earhart, which went in to the mystery category in 1937, when her Lockheed Electra disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
The current Earhart is flying, with a co-pilot, a Pilatus PC-12, single engine, very modern plane.
Her sponsor is Wings Over the Rockies Air Museum.
Her flight story is on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Rose_Earhart
She can be followed at: www.flywithamelia.org/
Thought this to be an interesting story, that some of you might like to follow.
Jim Too
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Post by pat perry on Jun 9, 2015 21:51:38 GMT 9
Update on the Memphis Bell B-17 restoration at The Museum of The Air Force in Dayton, OH. One of only 3 B-17F left.
When we saw her at the 2013 All F-106 Reunion she looked like the 3rd picture on the page. They have gotten a lot done since then. Pat P.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/8-june-1943/
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Post by Jim on Jul 15, 2015 23:29:33 GMT 9
On this day in 1952, a young man put his right up and swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America in Buffalo, New York and boarded a train (NYC RR) for Sampson AFB, NY Attachment Deleted
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jul 16, 2015 0:12:53 GMT 9
On this day in 1952, a young man put his right up and swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America in Buffalo, New York and boarded a train (NYC RR) for Sampson AFB, NY Jim, you really had a long ride on the NY Central from Buffalo to the shores of Seneca Lake.
I have known a number of people who took Basic at Sampson in Winter, and they all said it was colder than the North Pole, with the wind and snow blowing off the lake.
I enlisted too soon to go to Parks, across the Bay from San Francisco, and, instead, went to Lackland for 10 days, then to Shepherd to finish Basic and go to A&E School.
Much has changed, my Friend, since 1952, and not much for the good.
Jim Too
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Post by Jim on Aug 5, 2015 7:21:37 GMT 9
4 August 1960: NASA research test pilot Joseph Albert Walker set an unofficial world speed record when he flew the number one North American Aviation X-15, 56-6670, to 2,195 miles per hour (3,532.5 kilometers per hour). This was the 18th flight of the X-15 Program. It was 56-6670’s eighth flight and Walker’s fourth X-15 flight. The purpose of this test was to gradually increase the rocket plane’s speed toward its design limit.
Airdropped from the Boeing NB-52A Stratofortress mothership, 52-003, over Silver Lake, near the California-Nevada border, at 08:59:13.0 a.m., PDT, Walker fired the X-15’s two Reaction Motors XLR11-RM-13 rocket engines for 264.2 seconds. The X-15 accelerated to Mach 3.31 and climbed to a peak altitude of 78,112 feet (23,809.5 meters). [The two XLR11s were used as an interim powerplant until the Reaction Motors XLR99 was ready. The combined thrust of both LR11s was only slightly more than the idle thrust of the XLR99.]
Walker touched down on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after a flight of 10 minutes, 22.6 seconds.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Sept 18, 2015 23:19:47 GMT 9
On 18 September 1947, The United States Air Force became a separate branch of our nation's Military.
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Post by adart on Sept 20, 2015 7:22:48 GMT 9
Happy Birthday USAF...
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Sept 21, 2015 23:11:22 GMT 9
To-day, in Lebanon, Missouri, Marvin Pine is celebrating his Birthday.
OldPine.
Jim Too
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Post by pat perry on Dec 6, 2015 3:17:16 GMT 9
Wow! Faster than my 1963 Ford...
www.thisdayinaviation.com/5-december-1963/
X-15: Serial # 56-6670
Excerpts:
5 December 1963: On Flight 97 of the X-15 Program, Major Robert A. Rushworth flew the number one aircraft, Air Force serial number 56-6670, to an altitude of 101,000 feet 30,785 meters) and reached Mach 6.06 (4,018 miles per hour/6,466.3 kilometers per hour). [4018 mph is 67 miles per minute and 1.12 miles per second]
Rushworth ignited the Reaction Motors XLR-99-RM-1 rocket engine, which burned for 81.2 seconds before shutting down.
Bob Rushworth landed the X-15 on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, California, after a flight of 9 minutes, 34.0 seconds.
Mach 6.06 was the highest Mach number reached for an unmodified X-15. 56-6670 flew 81 of the 199 flights of the X-15 Program. It is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum.
Pat P.
Kinda looks like a F-104 on steroids!
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Post by pat perry on Dec 15, 2015 23:46:52 GMT 9
Dec 15, 1959: Whistlin' Joe sets single engine fighter speed record that still stands today, 1,525.924 miles per hour. The FAI C class also includes multi engine fighters which set faster records. We like to think that Col Joe did it the hard way... with one engine tied behind his back. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Henry De La Vaulx Medal by the FAI, and the Thompson Trophy.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/15-december-1959/
Excerpt: During the Korean War, Joe Rogers got the nickname “Whistlin’ Joe” when he put whistles on the wings of his North American Aviation F-51D Mustang in an effort to frighten enemy troops. Though not officially credited, it is widely accepted that on 8 November 1950, with his Mustang Buckeye Blitz VI, he shot down a MiG-15 jet fighter. An aerial victory of a piston-engine fighter over a jet fighter was a very rare occurrence. He was one of a group of “The American Fighting Man” named Man of the Year by TIME Magazine. He flew 170 combat missions in the F-51 and another 30 in the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star.
What happened to 56-0467? On 14 August 1961, while taking off on a routine training mission, 467’s right tire blew out. The pilot, James Wilkinson, flew until most of the fuel had been exhausted, then landed at Edwards AFB because of its longer runway and more emergency equipment. After touching down, the right wheel and brake assembly caught fire, which quickly spread to the wing and fuselage. The aircraft slid to a stop and the pilot safely escaped. 467 was totally destroyed. 56-0459, which had been scheduled to make the speed record flights, is on display at the McChord Air Force Base Museum.
Colonel Joseph W. Rogers died at Healdsburg, California, 6 August 2005, at the age of 77 years. Rest in Peace Col Joe.
Pat P.
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Post by pat perry on Dec 26, 2015 22:59:05 GMT 9
26 December 1956: Convair’s Chief Test Pilot, Richard Lowe Johnson (1917–2002,) made the first flight of the Convair F-106A-1-CO Delta Dart, U.S. Air Force serial number 56-451, at Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of southern California.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/26-december-1956/
Built at San Diego, California, the delta-winged interceptor was trucked to Edwards on 14 December and prepared for its first flight.
Convair built 342 F-106 interceptors. 277 were F-106As and the remainder [65] were F-106B two-seat trainers.
56-451, the first F-106A to fly, was transferred to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in 1970. It is presently displayed at Selfridge Air Force Base, near Mount Clemens, Michigan.
Pat P.
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Post by pat perry on Jan 30, 2016 1:12:42 GMT 9
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Post by Gene on Jan 30, 2016 1:49:07 GMT 9
I was standing at the main desk at my sons grade school, waiting to see his principle. I remembered thinking, "why is there a tv in the main reception area of a grade school?"
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Post by Jim on Jan 30, 2016 3:37:45 GMT 9
I was standing at the main desk at my sons grade school, waiting to see his principle. I remembered thinking, "why is there a tv in the main reception area of a grade school?" Whatcha expect? Dodge ball equipment? Or maybe a condom dispensing machine?
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Post by Gene on Jan 30, 2016 4:37:58 GMT 9
probably the condom machine... with school trying to take exercise out of the school experience and all. no wonder 70+% of Americans are obese. I watch the nightly news across the country and all I see is fat people being interviewed about what ever subject is being ragged on at the time
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Post by pat perry on Feb 3, 2016 1:51:02 GMT 9
46th Anniversary of the "Cornfield Bomber" flown by Gary Foust and landed by itself.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/2-february-1970/
Excerpt: Lt. Foust’s interceptor stalled and went in to a flat spin. Captain Curtiss described it: “The aircraft looked like the pitot tube was stationary with the aircraft rotating around it. Very flat and rotating quite slowly.”
After the pilot ejected, the F-106 came out of the spin and leveled off. With its engine still running, -787 continued flying, gradually descending, until it slid in to a landing in a wheat field near Big Sandy, Montana. Eventually the airplane ran out of fuel and the engine stopped.
Pat P.
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Post by Gene on Feb 3, 2016 4:29:19 GMT 9
I had an uncle, ernie geir who lived in big sandy. he flew crop dusters.
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Post by pat perry on Apr 5, 2016 9:43:08 GMT 9
4 April 1975
US Bound C-5 crashes near Saigon attempting to return to Tan Son Nhut Air Base
Unable to maintain flight, the Galaxy touched down in a rice paddy two miles short of the runway at 270 knots (500 kilometers per hour). It slid for a quarter mile, became airborne for another half mile, then touched down and slid until it hit a raised d ike and broke into four sections. 138 people were killed in the crash.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/4-april-1975/
What a tragedy. I must have been in a two week training session at Leesburg, VA. I don't remember about this at all. Do you?
Pat P
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