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Jumat, 23 Mei 2014
Jumat, 16 Mei 2014
Applause to the USMC helo CH 46 and CH 53's at work fighting fires
In response to the problems encountered a couple years ago when the worst wildfires in California history swept through So Cal, major efforts were pushed to get the US military wildfire fighting capable helicopters unleashed from moronic rules about not operating in civilian causes (corpus something latin US history 101) and now they can help out the under manned, underfunded, and basically overwhelmed Cal Fire airborne fire fighting ability
Six specially-equipped MH-60S Sea Hawks are supporting CAL FIRE firefighting efforts in response to wildfires throughout the County of San Diego.
Image from https://www.facebook.com/USNavy?fref=photo
Senin, 12 Mei 2014
Bugs and Sylvester helping out recon squadron patches
Bugs Bunny with the 14th Photographic Recon sq
Selasa, 06 Mei 2014
American U2 spyplane over 50 years old still flying around, this time causing the FAA fits when their computers glitched due to trying to track the U2
http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/update-spy-plane-fried-air-traffic-control-computers-shut-down-lax
On Wednesday at about 2 p.m., according to sources, a U-2 spy plane, the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago, passed through the airspace monitored by the L.A. Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, Calif. The L.A. Center handles landings and departures at the region’s major airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX), San Diego and Las Vegas.
The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other. The U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but the computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it.
Though the exact technical causes are not known, the spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed.
As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had to stop accepting flights into airspace managed by the L.A. Center, issuing a nationwide ground stop that lasted for about an hour and affected thousands of passengers.
At LAX, one of the nation’s busiest airports, there were 27 cancellations of arriving flights, as well as 212 delays and 27 diversions to other airports. Twenty-three departing flights were cancelled, while 216 were delayed. There were also delays at the airports in Burbank, Long Beach, Ontario and Orange County and at other airports across the Southwestern U.S.
http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/05/06/faa-u-2-spy-plane-caused-air-traffic-computer-outage/#axzz30xyCRAlo
Sabtu, 03 Mei 2014
belly tank bug, Iwo Jima
"7th Air Force men used a little imagination, discarded belly tanks, plus a small engine to make this improvised car. They have nicknamed it The Bug.", Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, 12 June 1945
found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/
Sabtu, 26 April 2014
whats left of a B24 near Fairbanks
Surprisingly, it was running a 4 engine failure test in order to repeat a similar problem that caused another B24 to crash... and huh.... whadya know, the test went so well and duplicated the problem so exactly, that the exact some result occured. In recent years, a forest fire destroyed what was left of the plane
Found on http://destroyed-and-abandoned.tumblr.com/post/82906584701/b-24-outside-of-fairbanks-alaska-texanwill-a-bit
Sabtu, 12 April 2014
a rare pilot, he had aerial dogfights and won, with German, Japanese, and Italian opponents. Canadian Wg Cdr Davidson
There on his Typhoon are the kill flags for the Japanese, Italian, and German enemy planes. He lived til old age peacefully on a farm
Found on http://historicaltimes.tumblr.com/
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