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that is probably the worst logic based pro gun bumper sticker *i'd* ever seen. I am sure there are worse.
"Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun"
*cough* ad hominem *cough*
that fateful night, if only ted kennedy decided to drive a gun instead of a car...
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Senses Fail
Vans Warped Tour
Ventura, CA
June 2009
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Instead of getting off the platform in Naperville, IL, this BNSF worker flies down the platform between the actual station and Loomis Street. This is the second platform fail here in a month!
Air Force Flight Test Museum
Captain Iven C. Kincheloe was born in Detroit, MI on July 2, 1928 and moved with his family to a farm in Cassopolis at the age of three. Like so many of his generation, young Kincheloe became aviation-struck at a very early age. He started taking flying lessons at a country airport at the age of 14, only to find that it would be two years before he could legally fly an airplane alone. Nevertheless, he accumulated a respectable 200 hours in the air and was well prepared for his first official solo flight on his 16th birthday.
He graduated from high school in 1946 and went on to Purdue University, where he became an aeronautical engineering student. Not surprisingly, he also entered the university's Air Force ROTC program at the same time. A high point came quickly. During the course of an ROTC encampment at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the summer of 1948, he found himself being introduced to a young professional test pilot who had just completed a most interesting project at Muroc Air Force Base in California. Captain "Chuck" Yeager's epochal supersonic flight had just been announced to the general public.
Kincheloe continued his studies and was graduated from Purdue in June the following year with a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering. He received a regular commission in the U.S. Air Force as a second lieutenant July 9, 1949.
Lt. Kincheloe went directly to basic pilot training with the 3525th Pilot Training Wing, Williams Air Force Base, AZ on July 9,1949 and went on to advanced pilot training at the same location, where he won his wings and was rated as pilot August 4, 1950.
Kincheloe didn't have long to wait. After two months and 20 missions with the 335th, he was reassigned to the 25th Fighter Squadron. Arriving at Suwon, South Korea, the young pilot found to his pleasure that the 25th was equipped with the F-86E, the model he had already checked out at Edwards AFB. The F-86E has been described as the interceptor model of the basic Sabre: an all flying tail with linked elevators, and power-boosted tail controls with artificial "feel." That all added up to enhanced maneuverability, and the 25th soon put it to good use.
A month after he arrived at the 25th FIS, Kincheloe was designated a flight commander. On January 19,1952, Kincheloe led his four F-86s into an attack against 12 MiG-15s; he shot down one and his flight soon routed the others. He received the Distinguished Flying Cross for this action and a spot promotion to captain. His first aerial victory achieved, others followed in succession. His second enemy fighter went down in February. Then, on April 1, 1952, he was again leading a flight of four escorting bombers to their targets. Sixteen MiGs attacked the Americans, and in the ensuing melee, Kincheloe shot down the enemy flight leader, took some damage himself, and then proceeded to destroy another MiG. A few days later, under much the same circumstances, he sent another interceptor down in flames and likewise broke up the enemy attack. This mission brought him the Silver Star, and his fifth aerial victory made him an "ace."
By the time his combat tour ended in May, he had completed 101 combat sorties in F-86s as well as another 30 in F-80s. He was one of only 10 American pilots to win the status of "double ace" during the Korean War. His final score was 10 enemy fighters shot down. He had also damaged another seven MiG-15s in aerial combat. More important than the score, however, his teamwork had enabled many other pilots to successfully complete their combat missions.
From Williams Air Force Base, he went on to duty with the 62nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron (FIS) stationed at O’Hare International Airport AFB, Chicago. There, he trained in the swept-wing F-86 Sabre. While he was serving with the 62nd FIS, the young lieutenant's abilities were recognized with a temporary assignment for a special test project at Edwards Air Force Base. This turned out to be a seminal experience in his career.
Like many other pilots, Kincheloe took in the immense flight test base with its rows of exotic new aircraft and its bustling activities, and knew that he wanted to be a part of it all. Before that could happen, however, there was more immediate work to be done. His special test project involved checking out the armament and other new equipment in an advanced model of the Sabre, the F-86E. The experience he gained with the -E model was to serve him well in the immediate future.
In September 1951 he was sent to Korea, where he was assigned as a Squadron Pilot in the 335th Fighter Interceptor Squadron (4th Fighter Interceptor Group). The 335th's mission was to fly escort for B-29 bombing raids and RF-80 reconnaissance flights. He performed these duties patiently while he learned the ropes about combat but, like all fighter pilots, he hankered to fly air-to-air combat with the best the enemy could offer. In this case it was the Soviet Union's vaunted MiG-15, a fighter that had several important advantages over the F-86.
Kincheloe hoped that an assignment as a test pilot would follow his combat tour, but upon his return from Korea he found himself ordered to Nellis AFB, NV, where he drew instructor duty. Serving as an academic instructor and as a Fighter Gunnery Instructor, he passed along the hard won lessons and techniques he had learned in combat. Throughout this period, he repeatedly requested transfer to the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB. Finally, in October 1953, he received a coveted assignment at the Research and Development Fighter Plant at Nellis.
While Kincheloe was flying and teaching at Nellis, he learned that the Air Force had an exchange agreement with the Royal Air Force to allow a limited number of Air Force student test pilots to train with Royal Air Force Test Pilots and vice versa. For American pilots, this meant assignment to the highly-regarded Empire Test Pilot's School in England. Kincheloe was accepted for this program, and in January 1954, was assigned to the 1137th USAF Special Activities Group at Fort Myer, VA, with duty as a student exchange officer to the British school. Ten months of intense and exciting training followed at Farnborough in the United Kingdom, where he found himself studying alongside and competing against some of the best pilots from the allied nations.
He graduated from the Empire Test Pilot's School in December 1954. Now a fully qualified test pilot, Kincheloe was designated an Experimental Flight Test Officer in January 1955, and assigned to the Air Force Flight Test Center. Having reached his professional goal, there was now time enough to give thought to long-delayed personal affairs. He married Dorothy Henning of Oakland, CA, in August 1955. They soon had two children, Iven Carl III and Jeannine Frances.
Like his fellow pilots, one of his duties was to fly chase on other aircraft, acting as a safety observer. Soon, however, he began to participate in the flight development of all of the Century Series fighters for the Air Force. His first task was a gunnery evaluation of the F-100 Super Sabre. A succession of other advanced jets followed: the F-101 VooDoo; F-102 Delta Dart; F-104 Starfighter, and F-105 Thunderchief. He achieved senior pilot status in August 1957.
In the meantime, the X-2 research program was getting well under way and Kincheloe, like most of the test pilots at the Flight Test Center, yearned to fly the rocket-powered craft. Bell's new rocket research plane was far more than a swept-wing follow-on to the successful X-1. Constructed of stainless steel and K-Monel copper-nickel alloys, it had a larger rocket motor and was designed to explore atmospheric flight at speeds and altitudes far beyond the X-I's capabilities. Kincheloe's opportunity came when the Air Force's X-2 project pilot, Lt Col Frank K. "Pete” Everest, chose him as his chase pilot. Before long, the rocket plane experienced a series of landing mishaps that slowed down the program, and Everest faced reassignment before he could complete the final research flights. An elated Kincheloe was selected, along with Captain Milburn G. “Mel" Apt, to continue the program and expand the X-2's speed and altitude envelopes. Not long after Everest departed Edwards in June 1956, Kincheloe made two familiarization flights in the single-seat plane.
Then, on September 7,1956, he flew the X-2 to a peak altitude of 126,000 feet (23.9 miles), becoming the first human ever to fly above 100,000 feet. The public reaction to this feat was immense. Although that altitude was about half of what was later considered the edge of space, Kincheloe was immediately hailed as "The First of the Spacemen" by a fascinated press.
Just 20 days later, Mel Apt was killed in the X-2 only minutes after becoming the first person to fly faster than Mach 3. The X-2 program came to an immediate and tragic end, and there would be no more rocket plane research until the start of the hypersonic X-15 program, three years later.
Kincheloe resumed his normal flight duties. Nearly a year after his milestone flight in the X-2, in August 1957, Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas White presented Kincheloe with the MacKay Trophy for "accomplishing the most meritorious flight of 1956." This was a highly respected honor in the aerospace world, but an even better one came a month afterward: Captain Kincheloe was named the Air Force's project test pilot for the X-15 program.
On March 27, 1958, he was named chief, Manned Spacecraft Section, Fighter Operations Branch of the Flight Test Operations Division. The Manned Spacecraft Section was responsible for the training of Air Force pilots who were to participate in the X-15 research flight test program. His tenure there, however, proved to be tragically brief. On July 26,1958, he took off in an F-104 for what was intended to be a short and routine flight. Almost immediately after he lifted off from the runway, a component in the fighter's engine failed, preventing it from delivering its full thrust. The stricken jet continued toward Rosamond Dry Lake, but could not climb to a safe altitude. Kincheloe had time for only a few words to the tower before he rolled inverted in order to activate his downward-firing ejection seat. He ejected successfully, but was already far too low to survive his landing.
During the course of his career, Kincheloe accumulated 3,573 flying hours in 70 American and foreign aircraft types, including nearly every type of Air Force airplane built during the middle and late 1950s. Numerous honors followed his death. One of the most meaningful came from his peers, when the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) renamed its prestigious Outstanding Pilot Award in his honor. His most public tribute, however, took place far away in his home state when Kinross Air Force Base in Michigan's Upper Peninsula was renamed Kincheloe Air Force Base in his memory.
FAILE's installation, Les Ballets De Faile, was created for the Art Series performances on Friday, February 1, and Wednesday, May 29.
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Thi is the build a ginger bread house kit i bought, it was a complete failure, the icing didn't even stick on the cookies, not even after keeping it warm in bain marie, and the walls broke and crumbled...
a complete failure...
Tasting Britain were invited down to Shikumen in Shepherd's Bush, because I failed at attending/covering their Chinese New Year party (thanks, stomach bug!). Anyways, Shikumen draw their menu from the multitudinous and wonderful cuisines of mainland China. According to Shikumen, "Shikumen (石库门) translates to “stone gate” and is a style of housing unique to Shanghai. This arched housing blends Chinese and Western structural styles and was popular in the 40s following colonial influence." - you can see this in their logo, which has a few little arches on it that inexplicably remind me of the icons/art from Civilization II.
Bryony (Tasting Britain's cofounder) and I did that usual thing where we order ALL THE THINGS but not very much alcohol, which is, I suppose, best from a food journalism point of view but not best from a body composition point of view (too many gainz). Whereas this Shikumen is located within Dorsett Hotel on Shepherd’s Bush Green, there's another one in Ealing, in the ground floor of the Xanadu Hotel 10 minutes walk from Ealing Broadway tube. Probably the most memorable thing we tried was the 'Haka Chicken' - it has a taste that I cannot begin to describe and is very popular amongst their Chinese diners. It is not so popular amongst their European clientele however, and I now can see why. lol.
foto2 yang gagal. tapi saya senang sekali bisa memotret bersama teman2 yang jago. saya akan belajar lagi lebih keras// failed photosession. i'm so glad anyway,..coz i can make a session wit my "good-in-making-photos" friends. i'll try harder to learn!
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don't ever do this... kitty nails covers were not a big hit. Kitten thinks of nothing but murder all day.
My Dad won an 16 GB iPad through work,
But he wanted to upgrade to a 64 GB.
When we went to go pick-up the new one at the mall, I saw this balloon.
It looked so lonely, just floating up there...
Like it had escaped from someone or something
But it couldn't get any further because of the ceiling.
It's a good thing I always have my camera with me(: