Random photo montage of enjoyment......

A rare antique just flew over!
Tom Hanks was probably not aboard.

Would'a had a good one if I'd had my camera with me on our walk - a P-51 flew over the neighborhood at abot 1,000 feet!
Speaking of which, on 9/12, while sitting in the parking lor for lunch, a pair of F-18 growled overhead at treetop level - must have just taken off from Teterboro from some 9/11 events. Again - no camera handy.

A friend posted this on her facebook page yesterday. She and her husband live out in east county. This was in her backyard.

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Three engines, eh? L-1011? An old Lockhead?

That's a DC-10. I think FedEx might be the only outfit still operating them?

And the engines haven't fallen off yet!

I believe they're MD-11's, FedEx and ups both operate them in cargo service.

The MD-11 is the plane formerly known as the DC-10.

There were a bunch of accidents back in the 70s (?), and I assume they were declared unsafe for passenger use, since you only see them as cargo planes now.

Hmp - no, according to Wiki, the MD-11 is a whole new airplane, but some DC-10s were upgraded and renamed MD-10s.

Doesn't the AF still use them as KC-10s?

AFAIK.

The MD-11 is a stretch DC-10. They were taken out of passenger service because of age, and more modern replacements being available. I think KLM was the last airline to operate them passenger style.

Show us your war face! okay just my "hunting" face but you get the idea. Here I am in the parking lot before I walked to my spot for a very brief bow hunting session. Didn't bag anything, but I had two small, young bucks come through at the same time (quite rare, usually they avoid/fight each other during the "rut" because their testosterone is through the roof) but they were out of range - range is 15 yards/45 feet for my bow so I just enjoyed the show. Bow hunting is like having your own zoo!

These are all pretty old.

awesome pic! You look like you're protecting some rancher & his school marm wife from a murderous gang of no-accounts - or some such!

ISWYDT - maybe my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but I had to read it a few times until the title of the article jumped out at me.

Riddle me this - how can you pee your pants but only one leg is wet? Wait, I don't think I want to know the answer to that, but it could explain much.

I'm just THAT flexible! Ah for the days I could even pee that much all at once!

(I think I'd only dropped a cup of water on myself or something.)

C-5M shooting touch and gos near my live shot location.

great pics! Ever been inside a C5? Really incredible how much they can hold.

More than once.

To me they look bigger in the air than they do on the ground.

Meanwhile, back in the 70s -



This was the central "hub" of S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp circa 1978. This is where the videotapes you rented were mass-recorded. I worked there as a draftsman in engineering. In the center of the Hub were maybe a dozen broadcast videotape playback machines ranging from 2" reel-to-reel down to 3/4" U-Matic cassette decks. They were patch-paneled into a surrounding ring of about 300 commercial VCRs, both Betamax and VHS. The operator would cue up a movie on a broadcast machine. Some poor schlub (that guy in the background) would go around with a cart loading cassettes into all 300 decks. The operator would start the movie, the schlub would hit the master record button on the rack system. Then everybody sits around and watches the 2 hour movie while it records in real time. Then the schlub UNloads all the decks...

Here's one of our techs servicing one of the 2-inch Ampex "quadruplex" playback machines:

Dad still serving out his tour on Ie Shima, a couple of months after the war ended. He's on his tentmate's bunk, so the pic is his tentmate's girl. The magazine is the November 1945 issue of Modern Screen with Ingred Bergman on the cover.

Hey, ya gotta get off base once in a while.



From Moore Field, Corsicana TX, 1943, during advanced fighter pilot training.

Aaaand 10 years later, back in civilian life...



Does that face not say "I'm hot shit" or what?

Some post-war P-47 shots while getting in some flying time. The plane is probably being flown by Dad's buddy Hal Barbrett, a;though it could just as easily be Dad in the cockpit. Hard to tell. Dad had transferred from the 318th FG to the 413th FG at this point.