From the WAY back machine… My step-grandfather was an auto mechanic for about 50 years, starting in the early-20s… 1920s… He worked for a dealer out of Chicago for about 10 years, then ended up at Studebaker, working in the … Continue reading
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This one came over the transom from the mil-email chain… Not one I was on, but it looks like a merchant ship. But it does bring back memories… Hours and hours of Maritime Air Patrol (MAP) tracks all over the … Continue reading
The things one ‘finds’ when you move… A real feed sack quilt- This one is at least 60 years old… I folded it so you can see both the feedsack side, which is normally down, and the top. And this one … Continue reading
More military stuff… I had told somebody about how big Hangar 1 at Moffett Field was, and they used to fly hot air balloons in the hangar during the airshows… Of course the ‘individual’ called BS… Well, here’s the proof! This … Continue reading
My old crew, back in the day… Circa 1985ish… One crew, one airplane, one ‘small’ maintenance det… Way up North… 🙂 Ironically, got to talking to one of my co-workers, turns out he was on a sub ‘playing’ with the … Continue reading
Lots of hours in these seats… Any guess at to what airplane it is??? … Continue reading
Over 30… That was always a fun call at 200 feet… That either meant a tight pattern, or MAD trapping… This is a Lockheed photo, but you get the idea… You grabbed the coffee out of the holder, put your … Continue reading
Found this the other day in the move… July 21, 1969… We’d spent the night in a bar on Via Veneto in Rome, watching the whole thing on Italian TV. Picked this up on the way back to the pensione … Continue reading
Before the A-10, there was the A-1E. It was big, ugly, slow and could and did haul damn near everything in the inventory… Better known as the Spad, it was a round nosed beast loved by it’s pilots, and those … Continue reading
Sorry for the lack of a picture of the whole anchor. I ‘thought’ I had one… Anyhoo… It looks a lot like this except BIGGER!!! It’s a Kedge style anchor from the late 1800s’ probably weighs around a couple of … Continue reading