a04 (AS-501)_v_c_o_AKP (S-67-50433 near eq, auto)
The Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) space mission was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The liftoff of the huge 363-feet tall Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle was at 7:00:01 a.m. (EST), Nov. 9, 1967. The successful objectives of the Apollo 4 Earth-orbital unmanned space mission obtained included (1) flight information on launch vehicle and spacecraft structural integrity and compatibility, flight loads, stage separation, subsystem operation, and (2) evaluation of the Apollo Command Module heat shield under conditions encountered on return from a moon mission.
Highly entertaining & informative discussion at:
forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41286.0
AND...I was fortunately able to find the basis and I guess "provenance" of both the photo and the wonderful inscription:
"...Congressman Jack Brinkley who was then [1954] an Air Force pilot stationed at Lawson Field at Fort Benning. The Cl19G [C-119G] was commonly referred to as the Flying Boxcar and replaced the C46's which had been stationed at Lawson Field. They were used primarily for parachute drops and for cargo.
The 776th Troop Carrier Squadron to which Congressman Brinkley was then attached was assigned on a temporary duty basis later that year to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at Frankfurt, Germany. The Squadron ferried its own airplanes to Rhein-Main via the northern route from Dover Air Force Base to Newfoundland to BW-l (Bluie West 1) at Greenland; to Keflavik, Iceland, Scotland then direct to Germany.
Between Iceland and Greenland, the airplane piloted by Captain Knold and Lt. Brinkley sustained an explosion in the right engine. The cowling was blown away with severe shrapnel damage along the side and in the vertical and horizontal stabilizers. Limping along over the North Atlantic Ocean all cargo was jettisoned.
With one engine feathered and the other at top speed for 2 1/2 hours, the plane was piloted safely back to Greenland down a fjord and to a safe landing. The conditions were IFR, the weather below freezing, but the joy at overcoming the adversity was a matter of esprit for the entire Squadron, many of whom had heard the Mayday.
The plane's number was AF 5912 with the lead plane carrying Lt. Col. Maynard Ashworth, to-be and former publisher of The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer."
Credit:
files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/photos/tornadoh12682gp...
GREAT STUFF...seriously. IMHO.
a04 (AS-501)_v_c_o_AKP (S-67-50433 near eq, auto)
The Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) space mission was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The liftoff of the huge 363-feet tall Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle was at 7:00:01 a.m. (EST), Nov. 9, 1967. The successful objectives of the Apollo 4 Earth-orbital unmanned space mission obtained included (1) flight information on launch vehicle and spacecraft structural integrity and compatibility, flight loads, stage separation, subsystem operation, and (2) evaluation of the Apollo Command Module heat shield under conditions encountered on return from a moon mission.
Highly entertaining & informative discussion at:
forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=41286.0
AND...I was fortunately able to find the basis and I guess "provenance" of both the photo and the wonderful inscription:
"...Congressman Jack Brinkley who was then [1954] an Air Force pilot stationed at Lawson Field at Fort Benning. The Cl19G [C-119G] was commonly referred to as the Flying Boxcar and replaced the C46's which had been stationed at Lawson Field. They were used primarily for parachute drops and for cargo.
The 776th Troop Carrier Squadron to which Congressman Brinkley was then attached was assigned on a temporary duty basis later that year to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at Frankfurt, Germany. The Squadron ferried its own airplanes to Rhein-Main via the northern route from Dover Air Force Base to Newfoundland to BW-l (Bluie West 1) at Greenland; to Keflavik, Iceland, Scotland then direct to Germany.
Between Iceland and Greenland, the airplane piloted by Captain Knold and Lt. Brinkley sustained an explosion in the right engine. The cowling was blown away with severe shrapnel damage along the side and in the vertical and horizontal stabilizers. Limping along over the North Atlantic Ocean all cargo was jettisoned.
With one engine feathered and the other at top speed for 2 1/2 hours, the plane was piloted safely back to Greenland down a fjord and to a safe landing. The conditions were IFR, the weather below freezing, but the joy at overcoming the adversity was a matter of esprit for the entire Squadron, many of whom had heard the Mayday.
The plane's number was AF 5912 with the lead plane carrying Lt. Col. Maynard Ashworth, to-be and former publisher of The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer."
Credit:
files.usgwarchives.net/ga/muscogee/photos/tornadoh12682gp...
GREAT STUFF...seriously. IMHO.