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Post by pat perry on Oct 27, 2014 0:25:21 GMT 9
Message from Bobski:
You can now start registering for the 2015 F-106 All Troops Reunion, Oct. 7-11, which is at the Elegante Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. You can call them (719-576-5900 x 1777) to reserve your room (reference F106 All Troops 2015 Reunion); or use the special website for our reunion: www.reseze.net/cassets/mkt/mcmelegante/landing_pages/MCM_Colorado_F106_All_Troops_Reunion_Group.html
We have negotiated a price of $79 per night including breakfast. They are offering this rate for 3 days prior to and 3 days after the reunion. You can view the Hotel website at www.hotelelegante.com
Register by sending $15 for the veteran or interested party and $10 for each guest that veteran or interested person brings. Send to: Ken Wigton, 3411 Capitol Way Highland, Mi. 48356. You can make out the check to F-106 reunion. The first person registered at $15 gets a special reunion patch. We would like to collect all monies up front. When you register please indicate the venues you plan to attend. You may also make installment payments by paying for each event individually.
We will have the Hospitality Suites open 24/7 every day. Bring your own snacks, beverages (alcohol ok), and stories; there will be a military merchandise store available also. (Extra reunion patches & shirts)
Day 1, Oct 7, 2015 Wednesday, Meet and Greet Dinner: $30 P/P
Elegante Hotel: Check-in 2-5 pm; Social Hour 5 pm; Buffet Dinner 6 pm; Program & Fun following!
Day 2, Oct 8, 2015, Thursday, 9 am - 3:30 pm: $68 P/P
Garden of the Gods with lunch included & tour in Manitou Springs. (Price includes lunch with taxes and gratuity)
Day 3, Oct 9, 2015, Friday, 9 am-Noon: $44 P/P
US Air Force Academy (guided)
Evening Tour: through Broadmoor and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo area with an after dark visit to Seven Falls: $48 P/P www.broadmoor.com/experience/?nck=ppc_general_branded&gclid=CPGdlraLyMECFbPm7AodYi0A8g
Day 4, Oct 10, 2015, Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm: $40 P/P
Peterson AFB (free admission); WW II Museum (admission: $8 retired, $10 general).
We will have lunch at Peterson for a nice buffet that includes tax and gratuity.
Farewell Banquet: $40 P/P (elegant style, business casual)
Social Hour 5pm, Dinner 6pm, after dinner: Special program, Air Force Band, raffles…
Day 5, Oct 11, 2015 Sunday;
Choice 1: 8 am - 1:15 pm: Cog Railway up to the summit of Pike's Peak, $80 P/P
Choice 2: 10:30 am - 3:30 pm: Royal Gorge Train. $85 P/P
So veterans, friends and anyone else interested, please start registering and let us know your selection of each event/tour, even if you haven’t paid yet. We know this is a long time in advance and we have already been planning for about 6 months. If you have to cancel I will send you a full refund if you notify me by Oct 1, 2015. We highly recommend that if you want to take the tours to take the bus with us! It is much more relaxing, more fun to be with everyone on the bus, no worries about traffic or directions!
Regards,
Ken Wigton Bob Kwiecinski (Bobski)
HM PH: 248-887-6834 HM PH: 772-571-6056
Same info on PDF file: itinerary F106 2015 Reunion 10-25-14.pdf (284.98 KB)
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Post by MOW on Nov 6, 2014 14:58:30 GMT 9
5 Nov 2014 Message from BobskiHello F106 Troops, Ken Wigton has been doing a lot of work ironing out the F106 All Troops 2015 Reunion, Oct 7-11 in Colorado Springs details for our tour options. Here's some updates: 1. The Oct. 9 Evening Tour through Broadmoor and Cheyenne Mountain Zoo area with an after dark visit to Seven Falls: $48 P/P is limited to the first 50 people that pay for it. Only one bus as this one is a beautiful tour with some mountain roads included. Here's a link to Seven Falls: www.pikes-peak.com/attractions/seven-falls/ 2. Ken recommends that the folks at least pay their registration and tell us which events they are attending. This is very important to me as I track the counts and order the busses, guides and meals and must know in advance of the reunion and prefer it to be earlier than later. Please let everyone know that if they have any changes before the reunion that their money is fully refundable. I can take cancellations up until September 30, 2015. I will also take payments for each event separately if that helps people by spreading out the payment. 3. You can now start registering for the 2015 F-106 All Troops Reunion, Oct. 7-11, which is at the Elegante Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado. You can call the Elegante Hotel (719-576-5900 x 1777) to reserve your room (reference F106 All Troops 2015 Reunion); or use the special website for our reunion: www.reseze.net/cassets/mkt/mcmelegante/landing_pages/MCM_Colorado_F106_All_Troops_Reunion_Group.htmlWe have negotiated a price of $79 per night including breakfast. They are offering this rate for 3 days prior to and 3 days after the reunion. You can view the Hotel website at www.hotelelegante.com4. Register by sending $15 for the veteran or interested party and $10 for each guest that veteran or interested person brings. Send to: Ken Wigton, 3411 Capitol Way Highland, Mi. 48356. You can make out the check to F-106 reunion. The first person registered at $15 gets a special reunion patch. We would like to collect all monies up front. When you register please indicate the venues you plan to attend. You may also make installment payments by paying for each event individually. It's time to start planning attendees so get your registration in soon. Some folks have sent the entire amount and others have just registered but are now telling me what they will attend. Thanks, Ken Please pass this info on to all your F106 buddies! Aim High! Bobski & Ken Seven Falls- Pikes Peak Country Attractions Explore seven cascading mountain waterfalls at Seven Falls in Colorado Springs. Hiking, self guided audio tours, wildlife viewing, scavenger hunts and more! pikes-peak.com
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Post by pat perry on Nov 14, 2014 5:34:05 GMT 9
Another Reunion Update from Bobski:
November 11, 2014
All F106 Troops,
FYI We made a major switch to another bank to handle our deposits for the 2015 All F106 Troops Reunion. From this day forward please make out all reunion checks to: KEN WIGTON - F106 REUNION.
I have also attached the updated reunion itinerary. We are starting to get several people registering and paying. Never too soon to register!
Aim High,
Bobski & Ken Wigton
Revised itinerary here: itinerary F106 2015 Reunion_revised_11_7_14.pdf (284.96 KB)
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Post by Mark O on Nov 15, 2014 17:05:51 GMT 9
The Reunion committee has decided against a Reunion Coin, but Pat P. and I were thinking maybe we might fund it ourselves and sell them. Thoughts on this coin design? It's a rendition of Dick's 2015 Reunion Patch on one side and our F-106 Website on the other. It will SELL!! Especially if you put it on Facebook! |
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Post by Jim on Nov 16, 2014 0:27:33 GMT 9
The Reunion committee has decided against a Reunion Coin, but Pat P. and I were thinking maybe we might fund it ourselves and sell them. Thoughts on this coin design? It's a rendition of Dick's 2015 Reunion Patch on one side and our F-106 Website on the other. It will SELL!! Especially if you put it on Facebook! |
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Post by Jim on Dec 27, 2014 12:48:03 GMT 9
2 more for 2015 Reunion..... Patches are brand new Replicas.......
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Post by pat perry on Jan 8, 2015 1:13:04 GMT 9
In addition to the 2015 F-106 Reunion Challenge Coins that MOW is developing and the truckload of clocks built by the Old Sarge, here's a new contribution by Bear Bruhn with Jim's help.
Bear had found the picture below of 4 Fighter Interceptors flying over the AF Academy at Colorado Springs. The quality was degraded as it was a copy of the original lithograph. I sent the picture to Jim and he tracked down the original USAF photographer who took it back in the 60s, Ken Hackman. Ken sent Jim a high resolution .jpg file from the original slide which was much better quality and Jim will make a clock for it.
Here's a smaller version of the picture that meets the less than 1 meg requirement for posting. We'll send a full size 2 meg copy to MOW for the Main website. This is a great photo! There will be no shortage of great memorabilia available at the reunion!
Pat P.
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 8, 2015 2:54:34 GMT 9
The F-101, F-102 and F-106 are sporting the tail art from Air Defense Weapons Center at Tyndall. I was stationed there from May 67-Dec 70 after McGuire closed and moved most of birds to 95th at Dover. The F-104 was probably a Guard bird. Lorin |
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Post by Jim on Jan 8, 2015 5:26:59 GMT 9
The F-101, F-102 and F-106 are sporting the tail art from Air Defense Weapons Center at Tyndall. I was stationed there from May 67-Dec 70 after McGuire closed and moved most of birds to 95th at Dover. The F-104 was probably a Guard bird. Lorin The photo was taken by Ken Hackman sometime in 1969. ANG/ADC mission for F-104 was over sometime 1962.... Perhaps it was borrowed from Luke AFB, (German AF training unit) because it appears to lack the radome of an interceptor.... Maybe Ken knows..... I will ask him..... |
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 8, 2015 8:50:41 GMT 9
F-104 S/N 0-60882 or 56-0882 was F-104A Model and was transferred from USAF to MAP Taiwan in 8/1970. So it was still flying somewhere in USAF until then.
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Post by MOW on Jan 8, 2015 10:19:27 GMT 9
This is good info on the photo. I actually have it, albeit a crappy version I never uploaded, along with this one below from Marty Isham which I can only assume was taken at the same time frame. Now with the modified good copy of the photo and the photographers name I can update the ADWC Photo Gallery.  |
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Post by Mark O on Jan 8, 2015 14:50:20 GMT 9
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 8, 2015 23:29:35 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Jan 9, 2015 0:11:38 GMT 9
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Post by Jim on Jan 9, 2015 0:26:07 GMT 9
Looks like the MOW has another of Ken's photos, apparently on the same mission.. I had found out that the F-104 had been at Homestead, but I couldn't find anything beyond 1962...... Will have a clock made out of an 11 x 14 print that my daughter has made from Ken's photo that he emailed me......more confusion for me..... The long-delayed F-106 finally arrived in 1959, only a year after its interim F-104A had entered service. The ADC quickly passed its F-104As and Bs to the Air National Guard but took them back during a series of crises in the early 1960s. It continued to use F-104As and Bs sparingly until 1969, when it passed them to the ANG for good. F-104Cs and Ds saw some combat in Vietnam until F-4 Phantom IIs replaced them. The Tactical Air Command sent its last F-104C to the ANG by 1968. In general, F-104 service was mostly a footnote in the histories of the Air Force and the Air National Guard, which flew their last Starfighters in 1975. - See more at: www.pacificaviationmuseum.org/pearl-harbor-blog/lockheed-f-104-starfighter#sthash.qRf00gbK.dpuf
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Post by Jim on Jan 9, 2015 2:09:39 GMT 9
This from Ken concerning the MOW's photo: This Looks like the same photo. I think this was probably shot sometime in 1967. I have to search through my files to narrow down the time of year. The motivation behind the photo was; these 4 aircraft were the fighter aircraft in use in ADC at that time. They obviously brought them in for the photo since none, that I know of, were stationed at Colorado Springs. I spent most of 1967 traveling throughout the U.S., Korea, England, Scotland, Greenland, Newfoundland photographing ADC facilities, aircraft, etc. The F-106s deployed to Korea on a six month basis. I shot them there and then flew backseat with them to Guam as they were deploying back to the states. Four hours in an F-106! My most fervent memory is; how tired and sore my butt was when we finally got to Guam. Ah the good old days!
Ken
More from Ken: Jim,
Saw the other message first You may be right about the reason for the photo. I'm not sure, as one of the other corresponder wrote it looks awfully brown down on the ground and in June at graduation the ground should be green. I think the F-104 was still assigned to ADC. Earlier during my photo essay tour of ADC I photographed F-104s stationed at McDill AFB. Was my one and only time I got to fly backseat in their two seat F-104. Quite an experience. So I'm sure they were still assigned to ADC.
Ken
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