A couple of photos during flight ops from my old ship.
White one is a Sea King and the green is a Sea Sprite.
White one is a Sea King and the green is a Sea Sprite.
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LC-130 Ski Hercules at Willy's Field, Ross Island, Antarctica about January 1996.
Walking out to the aircraft for the nine hour flight to Christchurch after two weeks on the ship off-load team.
A standard Herc could do the flight in eight hours, the extra drag of the skis added an extra hour.
Walking out to the aircraft for the nine hour flight to Christchurch after two weeks on the ship off-load team.
A standard Herc could do the flight in eight hours, the extra drag of the skis added an extra hour.
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Here's some pics of the B-29 at March Field from 2021.
There was a crew of guys with buffers polishing up the fuselage .
If you look at the sponsor banners hanging on the scissor lift on of them is Faxon barrels.
There was a crew of guys with buffers polishing up the fuselage .
If you look at the sponsor banners hanging on the scissor lift on of them is Faxon barrels.
That’s the blacked out Rendition model.
Attended AirVenture (EAA Oshkosh) this year.
Here's an original P-51C that was actually flown by the 332nd.
A total of 3,365 show planes were on display, including 1,497 registered in the vintage aircraft parking area (a record), 1,067 homebuilt aircraft, 380 warbirds, 194 ultralights, 134 seaplanes and amphibians, 52 aerobatic aircraft and 41 rotorcraft.
Here's an original P-51C that was actually flown by the 332nd.
A total of 3,365 show planes were on display, including 1,497 registered in the vintage aircraft parking area (a record), 1,067 homebuilt aircraft, 380 warbirds, 194 ultralights, 134 seaplanes and amphibians, 52 aerobatic aircraft and 41 rotorcraft.
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P-39Q | Original Old Crow
Painted in the livery of his first fighter, Original Old Crow honors World War II Triple Ace Bud Anderson. Owned and operated by the Commemorative Air Force, Original Old Crow is one of only three airworthy P-39 fighter aircraft in the world today.
www.originaloldcrow.org 
Ok, one more pic from my childhood (ok, ok...but with me at 70 now, it really does seem that long ago! LOL)
The Army was kind enough to fly us around Korea when up there TDY for training....well, they thought it was a kindness, I personally fucking hate flying in helicopters. Too many moving parts for me! haha
So, can't remember where we were going from/to, but it was in like...eh, '78 maybe. Close. And transmission oil light comes on so the Army pilot (that's him on the right, me on the left) dove for the ground as if that transmission locked up we were toast (I think...pretty sure). It was early morning and the rice paddy was frozen (Team Spirit exercise, I believe). As we waited for another helicopter with maintenance guys to come, it thawed out a bit and if you know anything about fertilizer in Asia in that period of time (and perhaps to this day) you can appreciate both the smell and my abiding aversion to helicopters.
Yes, it was just the sensor but....haha
The Army was kind enough to fly us around Korea when up there TDY for training....well, they thought it was a kindness, I personally fucking hate flying in helicopters. Too many moving parts for me! haha
So, can't remember where we were going from/to, but it was in like...eh, '78 maybe. Close. And transmission oil light comes on so the Army pilot (that's him on the right, me on the left) dove for the ground as if that transmission locked up we were toast (I think...pretty sure). It was early morning and the rice paddy was frozen (Team Spirit exercise, I believe). As we waited for another helicopter with maintenance guys to come, it thawed out a bit and if you know anything about fertilizer in Asia in that period of time (and perhaps to this day) you can appreciate both the smell and my abiding aversion to helicopters.
Yes, it was just the sensor but....haha
I should have snapped some pics from my flight yesterday.........it's everywhere here....in the triangle.
Meet up just before a memorial flyover for a fallen officer in Easley, SC…
Random, but same general time frame and part of the world…
That bottom pic at night is bad ass!!
Seoul?
Pretty sure it’s not Farah, no man eating wild dogs in the backround.
When were you there?
We “reoccupied” Farah for a couple weeks in later 16’. Came out there to smash the big heroin shipment heading west, business was good. Place had been closed down for a while. How bout you?
July of 10 to July 11
Evening cruise over the river last night
All three need a trip to the washrack.
Undisclosed, but rhymes with Iraq-Syria-Jordan…
After a long afternoon of dodging thunderstorms.
I hung off a CH-47, stationed at Quantico 1986. Rumor has it there was a midget sniper on base 
Local PO that helped me get a new CCW permit when my old job cancelled mine out of spite was a gunnery officer on the Missouri or Iowa , I forget which.
Doesn’t matter which you are legend if you served on either.
Had this flying out of Shreveport a couple weeks back. Other than being a 747, can somone identify this plane? I couldn’t make out the markings.
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