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Blytheville Air Force Base aka Eaker Air Force Base.
I think it is lost on most Americans that the first time a B-52 was used in actually live combat was in Vietnam and it was the only time a B-52 was lost to enemy fire.
Fifteen B-52s were lost during the 1972 Linebacker II Christmas bombings and three of those B-52s originated from the 97th Bombardment Wing assigned to Blytheville Air Force Base; B 52G 58-0201 "Charcoal 1" went down on the 18th, B 52G 58-0198 "Olive 1" and B 52G 58-0169 "Tan 3" were shot down on the 21st. Airmen from the 97th Bombardment Wing lost their lives and their photos appear on the lonely memorial at their abandoned base in Blytheville; Lt Col Keith R Heggen was in "Olive1", (now buried at Arlington Nat'l Cemetery) Lt Col Donald L Rissi, 1st LT Robert J Thomas and Msgt Walter L Ferguson were in "Charcoal 1" Major Bobby A Kirby, Capt Randall J Craddock, Capt George B Lockhart, Capt Ronald D Perry and 1st Lt Charles E Darr were in "Tan 3". These three 97th BW aircraft were stationed and flown out of Anderson AFB, Guam, as part of the 72nd Strategic Wing (Provisional).
Film-based photography
Chambre 6x6 Lubitel 2 (1949).
Film 120 - 400 ISO - Traitement C41
& digital traitement
Paris 2011. © Rémy Perthuisot.
A full-fledged Lego underwater research facility. You can watch a video of it at www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMDiq3O0pHc
Finally! My first collaboration with Toronto-based artist Astro Marus! It was really, really funny to do this one!
Since my first Flickr-day we support each other, comment each other's work and check out each other's photostream.
That's why it was just a matter of time till We Fly Together!. Now’s the right time!
Don't forget to check out his Work!
These fellas here are really good friends! They do everything, especially flying through the sky, together.
No more words!
Ohh yes, I forgot: HAY!
Built for the I LUG NY LUG Window in the Queens Store. It'll be installed sometime in the next week or so.
It's too big for a background. Also I'm lazy like that.
MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan -- A local national connects a fuel hose to the back of a fuel truck Mar. 16. Although the base received additional fuel supplies, Misawa personnel are continually urged to conserve resources as much as they can. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Marie Brown\Released)
San Francisco for Frankenstein Ballet, 26 Feb 2017
The San Francisco Ballet presented a ballet based on Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Elizabeth and I went to see it.
Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein during the rainy summer of 1816, when she, her husband Percy and Lord Byron were staying in Geneva. They challenged each other to write a ghost story and Mary's Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus was the only story of the three to be completed.
The book launched more horror movies than Helen's face launched ships, as well as such send ups as Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein, the Munsters, Rocky Horror, and Young Frankenstein, so if you've ever danced the Time Warp, or know who Eye-gore is, you can thank the wet summer of 1816 and a woman with a fertile imagination.
Frankenstein was also one of the first Gothic novels, and Byron was the guy who invented the Byronic hero, eventually becoming one himself, when he went to Greece to help the Greeks fight for independence from Turkey and wound up getting sick and dying without seeing combat. Emily Bronte was probably inspired by Byron's characters in creating Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights.
Byron's daughter was Ada, Countess of Lovelace, who worked with Charles Babbage on his calculating machine and is credited as being the first computer programmer.
It is all enough to inspire an episode of James Burke's old show "Connections"!
We discussed some of this on the train ride to Oakland after checking out the Sacramento station which has just had a dedication after several years of restoration and looks good.
The water in the rivers is still high after the recent rains, but we had a beautiful day for our trip.
We took the train to Oakland, and the ferry across the bay to San Francisco, where we ate outside at the Ferry Building as PCCs on the Muni E and F lines passed by in a steady parade. After lunch we caught PCC 1050 in Muni green and cream to Van Ness and walked a couple of blocks to the Opera House for the show.
The ballet was stayed fairly close to Mary Shelly's story, rather than the Boris Karloff movie that took Shelly's story's name and creature and mostly invented a new story. A great tragedy, most of the main characters were dead by the time the final curtain fell.
After dinner we caught BART to east bay and Amtrak back to Sacramento from there. Elizabeth did some homework on the ride back and I snoozed.
A great day out.
There was no other identification with the photographs. Would anyone have any idea where this was in the Philippines? On photo #1 there is a sign that looks like it might be “Delmonico Hotel”.
This photograph is in my personal collection.
Éste es el cp del moñeco que pliego más a menudo,por la secuencia y lo fácil e intuitivo que es,con estructura de 22,5
La Base Aérea de Torrejón (código IATA: TOJ, código OACI: LETO) es uno de los principales aeropuertos militares españoles cerca de Madrid. Fue usada, conjuntamente con el Ejército de Aire, por la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos (USAF) hasta 1992. Tras haber sido utilizado conjuntamente por el Ejército del Aire de España y AENA, esta última para la aviación ejecutiva, actualmente dichas operaciones han sido trasladadas al Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas.
Torrejón Air Base (IATA: TOJ, ICAO: LETO) (Base Aérea de Torrejón de Ardoz) is both a major Spanish Air Force base and the collocated Madrid–Torrejón Airport, a secondary civilian airport for the city and metropolitan area of Madrid.
La base aérienne de Torrejón (code AITA : TOJ • code OACI : LETO) est un aéroport militaire et civil (Aéroport de Madrid-Torrejón) en Espagne situé dans la périphérie de Madrid.
La base aerea di Torrejon era un aeroporto militare situato in Spagna gestito dalla United States Air Force. La base di Torrejon fu chiusa nel 1996 e l'aeroporto venne riconvertito per scopi civili. Attualmente lo scalo è noto come aeroporto di Madrid-Torrejón, stante la vicinanza alla città di Madrid. La base aerea di Torrejon era una delle basi aeree principali in Europa centro-meridionale assieme alle basi aeree di Aviano in Italia e quella di Incirlik in Turchia. Di fatto la base ha cessato di fungere da avamposto per la USAF già a partire dal 21 maggio 1992, quando gli aeromobili di stanza furono trasferiti altrove.
On an overcast Sunday afternoon Claudia and I headed out to the Marin Headlands for the Headland Center for the Arts Summer Open House (always fun.) After touring the studios and a tasty lunch in the HCA galley we headed out to take some photographs. We elected to visit Batteries Smith-Guthrie and O’Rorke, Endicott-era gun emplacements on the coastal ridge at the southern end of Rodeo Beach. Battery Smith-Guthrie once boasted four six-inch, rapid-fire guns on barbette mounts while Battery O’Rorke had four three-inch guns. Both defended minefields north of the Golden Gate. Winds were light for this time of year at around 10-12 MPH. The Sutton Flowform 30 proved adequate for my new Canon EOS-M cradle.
I have photographed these batteries before and given the dull overcast I did not expect much new out of this session. The highlight for me was a series of very low level KAP shots (< 6 feet high) taken at Battery O’Rorke just after I launched the cradle following a few adjustments. Like many of the other Endicott-period batteries, Battery O’Rorke is slowly returning to the earth. In this low level series your can see the blast apron slightly separating from its adjacent concrete paving with a neat line of opportunistic grass accenting the gap. I have read in old c. 1890’s reports the mention of “granolithing,” a form of concrete pour that mixes cement with crushed granite aggregate. These photographs have me wondering if the smoother surface is granolith.
It is pleasant spending time around Batteries Smith-Guthrie and O’Rorke. They command sweeping views of the northern approach to the Golden Gate – an asset for Sunday picnics as well as harbor defense. The kite flying was fun and the session yielded some useable photographs. Altogether an afternoon well spent.
Welcome to the Moon Base Outpost! This is the 4th entry in my "Rainbow Outposts" series (1st: Castle (Red), 2nd: Pirates (Blue), 3rd: Western (Orange)). Green may not be the most traditional color for classic space, but I had already used red and blue, and felt that out of all "classic" themes space was the best fit for this color. I had 2 goals with this model: to include as much NPU as possible and really embrace the whole "green" theme with some green technology. Look at all sides of the model and you'll find some neat details, such as an authentic (albeit cut and taped) LEGO bag to form the greenhouse, a functional LEGO education solar panel, a brick separator and real motor built into the walls, a huge radar dish and communications tower, and even an alien autopsy.
OK gang...Here's the base rifle built from the Umbrella Corporation Weapons Research Group FDE receiver set: Fortis Manufacturing FDE 12inch REV, BattleComp 1.0 on the Ballistic Advantage 16 inch mid-length gas barrel, Battle Arms Development Combat Ambidextrous Selector, FDE Grip 23 from UCWRG, and B5 Systems Bravo stock.