Pic of the Day

[Aircooled]

100,000 HP, 3000 RPM, Electric Motor on the test stand
5 down, 5 more to go

[Barry Donovan]

another freak maine event.
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something was strong enough to hit this at high speed highway, sending it off the road...

and kept going without being identified.


obviously a lifted truck, beyond half ton weights...
I know rigs can hit 90 out there. the car driver sure would have felt a breeze plowing before it got to her though.

I'll edit this post when they figure it out.

I think I found it.. [ATTACH]n1132360[/ATTACH]


I bet he was listening to this.

looking at his boost guage hit 100 psi, listening to his alpine/ rockford fosgate combo...

they found the driver.
my first guess was a ford f-teen thousand.
all other models buckle at the cab and bed.

Michaud said early Tuesday afternoon that tips from the public did lead investigators to Fiegel, whose 2016 Ford F-350, which had significant front end damage, was located at a local garage.

I bet the wimp-the-trucks argument emerges again.
I don't mind 100 dollar welders fixing my GMC, but work has to get done as well. I can't use my chevy half ton for the f350 stuff.

[JamesMayberryIII]

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[lea33]

wow..some of these are awesome..by the way do you mind if I use them for my research with domyhomework4me.net??

[Deaf Bob]

wow..some of these are awesome..by the way do you mind if I use them for my research with domyhomework4me.net??

I think emails to the owners of the site will be needed..
MONSTER probably can help with that, send him a PM..
I'm merely a reader of this site, no powers..

[Scott Liggett]

in memory of the 1491s. [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1130941[/ATTACH]
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this one is a 1959 RC model.
its name was wanda belle.

crashed in 1969 on a small island.
everyone survived.
A fantastic site to read up on it:
http://www.rc135.com/0000/INDEX.HTM [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1130944[/ATTACH]


This is a 1957 model, also #1491.
I'd like to call this one gone to hell. [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1130945[/ATTACH]


It went to junk in 2008 as an E model. This was the plane I was assigned to.
it only tried to kill us 3 to 12 times.

ok. I forget how many times it tried to kill us.
RIP

they did as they were supposed to. the physics of all those years is my obsession. Strange lessons, not for everybody to listen in on. This one may come back out as R model..but unlikely. the kc46 is set to start replacing the kc135 in 2018...this will trickle the last R models to air guard units.
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lightning grabbed by the hand.
it is to me another meaning.

chrome bolts, mic switches and a 9/16th wrench.
some of those hands never leave,
and they let us know.

I declare innocent, until it happens to me.
I look at a street lamp sometimes, and it goes out...as if it knew I was there.
if my teeth ache, my jaw as I lay down to sleep...
I shut the breaker down in my bedroom.

I feel to be myself when I look at the sun...
the same as old 1491.

Those bring back memories. That is what my Dad flew from 1964 to 1982 when he retired. His plane was tail number 452. The picture below is his plane, he took as it takes off from Ukota Japan.

[Scott Liggett]

Very interesting, I had no idea. Some great stories/reflections there about life on the front lines during the cold war. Two of the most expensive and important aircraft in the inventory lost within a short time of each other, one to a slushy runway and the other to...?...into the ocean with all onboard, never found.

One of the RC135's came apart after take off from Shimya Island Alaska. The airframes on some of these planes were taken apart for the mods they got for their electronics packages.

[Scott Liggett]

the forgotten warrior K car.
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The bomber crews were on alert seemed to drive a lot of different vehicles over the years. I remember seeing Ford station wagons, big 4 door pickups, and more or less repainted cop cars. Dad flew B-47's from '59-'64, he told me stories how the flight crews on alert status would race them up and down the taxi ways and runways when they got bored.

[Monster]

Airstrips are perfect for racing !

[Barry Donovan]

313 pounds.
hunting is not far from me.
my town seems to have died in a lot of ways.(I still think its the railroad)


anyway, they are out there.
this one is equal to 26 subarus... or 84 pennsylvania deer.
or two maine coon cats..
its a big one.

[68scott385]

NICE rack but you let the muzzle or your weapon touch the ground. Maybe it's just a Marine thing but that would have caused major issues in the service and it's a habit I still practice.

[Barry Donovan]

game camera.
automatic


giving a new phone a try.
scaring myself with it.

it did this from the wrong side of the camera...by itself.


I'll figure it out.
I just got fuel injection in 2015.
catching up at my own pace.

[Barry Donovan]

The bomber crews were on alert seemed to drive a lot of different vehicles over the years. I remember seeing Ford station wagons, big 4 door pickups, and more or less repainted cop cars. Dad flew B-47's from '59-'64, he told me stories how the flight crews on alert status would race them up and down the taxi ways and runways when they got bored.

I was the last of that bunch. Tankers fed the bombers..and the sr71.
I joined a facebook group Friends of SAC command.

alot of stories shared. I was the youngest cre chief for my whole six years. Very unpopular place to be. Recruiting etc, had a bad time.
I am glad to have made history.

several weird vehicles.
the favorite was a bitch to start, but had the greatest heater once it got going..
the old 6.2 diesel.
Maine is incredibly cold.


the general had a chevy corsica.
my teeth started popping to something.. got an emergency order to a dentist..the closest one was a top secret base with radar.(now defunct)

The general gave us his vehicle with 2 stars on the front plate to go flying up the coast to go to a dentist.
we stopped for lobster.


some of the stories.. very humble. the first small blocks being the voted favorites.
They talked of driving right on the line.
imagine declaring the 57 chevy the vehicle future won't ever forget.. IN 1957.
some of those chiefs were time themselves.

I was there for the last 318 carbed vehicles, slant 6.
that was another one with a great heater on the flightline in january.
we used to argue with Minot people about who was colder.

Maine is.

[V12guy]

100,000 HP, 3000 RPM, Electric Motor on the test stand
5 down, 5 more to go

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What is that motor for? Ours are almost as big physically, but (only)10,000 HP @480 RPM

[RAIV70Judge]

I think the name stuck...