How To Make a VAW Maintenance Dept Head Sweat…
Crane-off an E-2.
Someone pass me the Tums…
Crane-off an E-2.
Someone pass me the Tums…
“We claim this hallowed ground for peace and for healing. We claim it in affirmation of our strongest belief as a people: that every life is precious.” – Robert S. Gates, Sept 11, 2008 An unbelievable and memorable day – and those words hardly do justice. I was there for the re-dedication ceremony of the…
… on the grounds of the Air Force Academy: Go Navy – Beat the h3ll out of Air Force!
Cars, chases and guns…but not what you think (see esp. beginning at 7:34)…. (h/t: SailorBob)
So ol’ blue, the long suffering wireless router finally gave up the ghost and we replaced it with a Linksys WRT610n and while the installation and setup was not exactly painless, it was relatively straightforward, until it was time to start bringing the computers back into the net. Now the legacy Win2K and XP machines…
Medvedev and Putin have declared intentions to undertake an ambitious re-armament program cross all the armed forces, funded by profits realized from petroleum. Yet, if an opinion piece in today’s Washington Post rings true, the challenge they face in finding the manpower to build and man those forces may be considerable. Consider: • Three times…
18 January 1911: At 11:01 a.m., Eugene Ely, flying the same Curtiss pusher used to take off from Birmingham (CL 2), landed on a specially built platform aboard the armored cruiser Pennsylvania (Armored cruiser No. 4) at anchor in San Francisco Bay. At 11:58 he took off and returned to Selfridge Field, San Francisco, completing…
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But wait, there’s more. After they got it to the pier-then the aircraft had to be hoisted 2 more times. Once onto a barge so that it could be towed across Tokyo Bay to Kisarazu-45 miles away, where a new wing had to be put on in a less than stellar CH-47 Japanese hangar. Then flown back to Atsugi. Why?
Because an E-2 will not fit through the tunnels on the Yoko-Yoko expressway. The winds were kicking up so it was touch and go that they could get it on.
And all this, mind you, the day before 60,000 Japanese were to come on base for the Grand Illumination festival. 👿
There were a lot of people sweating, on the base, on the Kitty Hawk, and at C7F.
As an aside Steve Schmeiser says hi. He has a few less hairs today because of this.
aycarumba….. 🙁 forget the hairs, how about a digestive tract….?
– SJS