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Post by pat perry on Nov 28, 2007 8:51:47 GMT 9
Didn't know where to put this photo so I started a new thread for pictures of Forum Members. Here's proof that the Old Sarge (Jim Gier) and Thud (Ron Kollas) got together in Ohio in the summer of 2007 click on the picture to enlarge  Pat Perry |
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Post by lindel on Nov 28, 2007 9:20:31 GMT 9
Here I am, mostly up to date. Less hair, more gray now... :rolleyes:  |
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Post by Jeff Shannon on Nov 28, 2007 13:28:13 GMT 9
Then....  Now..... Me and the "Kids"  |
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Post by Mark O on Nov 28, 2007 14:07:34 GMT 9
Then and now...   |
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Post by pat perry on Nov 29, 2007 0:39:01 GMT 9
Then...  (click to enlarge) 1967 at Castle AFB, CA 456th FIS and now...  40 years later at the Memphis Rodders Club 2007 Reunion, Pat (left) talks with Larry Reyes, former driver of Roland Leong's Hawaiian AA/FC... and yes, we fired the car up after the dinner. That old restored Nitro Hemi sounded very healthy and the fumes brought back many drag racing memories and some teary eyes. Pat Perry |
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Post by Bullhunter on Nov 29, 2007 9:38:41 GMT 9
While assigned to 318th FIS, McChord AFB, WA mid 1970's  While out salmon fishing last year.  "Where the hell are we, where is my GPS?"  |
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Post by Mark O on Dec 3, 2007 11:18:19 GMT 9
Hey! Come on guys, post some photos!! We can't let this topic drop off the top 30! Okay, I'll show my face! (Beware! A Flight Engineer's face!!) This past summer at a house some guy named Elvis used to live in!  Mark |
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Post by screamineagle on Dec 24, 2007 1:23:48 GMT 9
Me now, last summer at EAA AirVenture 2007  |
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Post by pat perry on Jan 8, 2008 4:27:14 GMT 9
Our pal MA-1 MArv Donnelly paid a visit to the Old Sarge (Jim Gier) & Sandy out in Payson, AZ. Looks like they had a great visit and did some "cat house" maintenance while enjoying the change of 2007 to 2008. Oh, get your mind out if the gutter... I'm talking kitty cat. ;D MArv, hope you got to go see the Big Ditch (Grand Canyon) while you were out there. If you did, don't forget to show us some pictures. Thanks, Pat Perry Click on the picture to see four more  |
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Post by Mark O on Jan 8, 2008 9:04:58 GMT 9
Oh, get your mind out if the gutter... I'm talking kitty cat. ;D Love the jacket Marv!! BTW, being an old crew dawg and now a Flight Engineer I doubt my mind will ever get much higher than the top of the gutter!!  Mark |
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Post by vff on Jun 23, 2008 7:25:42 GMT 9
This is me in 2004 working on a LC 130 "On The Ice" (Willy Field) at Mcmurdo Station on Ross Island in Antarctica. I made 6 trips to the ice before retiring in 2007. Virgil 27th FIS 1966-69   |
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Post by MOW on Jun 23, 2008 12:35:26 GMT 9
This is me in 2004 working on a LC 130 "On The Ice" (Willy Field) at Mcmurdo Station on Ross Island in Antarctica. I made 6 trips to the ice before retiring in 2007. Virgil 27th FIS 1966-69 Great pics Virgil! I made a few trips to the ice on Op Deep Freeze through Christchurch NZ as a flying crew chief back in my C-141A days. Special times I'll never forget. |
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Post by Bullhunter on Jul 31, 2008 2:01:18 GMT 9
Posted by Mark::: OK Mark,,, I give it a bump. Most Jet Engine Technicians have this photo of themselves so here is mine. Taken about August 1971   |
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Post by Gene on Jul 31, 2008 11:36:21 GMT 9
 me and my son jon...2007  me in 1976 |
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Post by Gene on Jul 31, 2008 16:17:17 GMT 9
its good to put faces from way back and now into the equation... nice to "see" you guys!  : :yellow-beer |
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Post by Jeff Shannon on Jul 31, 2008 21:33:32 GMT 9
 1978 1st ejection seat I worked on F-4 Martin Baker Now...Hanging out with the Kids |
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Post by Gene on Aug 1, 2008 9:41:33 GMT 9
8-)hey guy, were you in the ejector seat business when 076 splashed... i met the guy that says he installed that particular seat... we were at rollies tavern...he was all smiles that nite because the seat did what it was supposed to do. |
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Post by Jeff Shannon on Aug 5, 2008 4:22:55 GMT 9
8-)hey guy, were you in the ejector seat business when 076 splashed... i met the guy that says he installed that particular seat... we were at rollies tavern...he was all smiles that nite because the seat did what it was supposed to do. Nope I wasn't there when 076 went in, the only places Ive been at where the seat was used was .....RAF Bentwaters and Luke. I'm proud to say each and everyone of those ejections were successful  and out of those I worked on 4 of the seats, 2 of those I had signed off the Red X from the seat and canopy installation.  |
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Post by Gene on Aug 5, 2008 9:13:07 GMT 9
COMBAT CONTROLLER MAKES FIRST SUPERSONIC EJECTION 24 JUNE 1961 - EDWARDS FLIGHT TEST CENTER, CALIFORNIA -- The F-106 Delta Dart, the Ultimate Interceptor was one of the many in the line of early jet aircraft tested by the US Air Force. The ejection seat tests alone covered more than six years (1 January 1956 through 30 June 1961) at Edwards Flight Test Center and Holloman AFB in New Mexico. These tests culminated with a live ejection test using a human volunteer at the White Sands missile test range in New Mexico. TSgt James A. Howell (a long-time combat controller - but at the time assigned to the 6511th Parachute Test Squadron) ejected from a specially instrumented F106B aircraft at an altitude of 23,336 feet, and traveling at 497 mph. The seat, which employed a unique tilt-articulated, rocket boosted system, was installed in the F106A aircraft. Earlier sled test ejections with dummies were run at speeds simulating Mach 2.5 at 9,700 meters (31,500) altitude, with statistically satisfactory results. Additionally, 35 human test subject sled runs were concluded, verifying that ejections up to 560 mph airspeed were within the range of human endurance. The tilt-seat, as some life support people came to know it, was not entirely satisfactory, however, and after several fatalities were sustained during actual in-flight emergency ejections in the supersonic rated tilt-seat, it was replaced in the F106 aircraft by a more conventional, rocket-powered seat made by the Weber Corporation (this seat was known simply as the Weber Seat), from 1964 through 1967. an article i found in the a.f. archives. then tsgt now cmsgt howell retired is a good friend |
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Post by Cougar on Aug 5, 2008 15:49:06 GMT 9
Our pal MA-1 MArv Donnelly paid a visit to the Old Sarge (Jim Gier) & Sandy out in Payson, AZ. Looks like they had a great visit and did some "cat house" maintenance while enjoying the change of 2007 to 2008. Oh, get your mind out if the gutter... I'm talking kitty cat. ;D Click on the picture to see four more Ole Sarge and MArv, Patty be puttin some foin pictures of ya up, but we ain't seenin no green bottles ;D ;D Do tell us thet yer not changin yer ways. |
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