Warbird Information Exchange

Larry:

Thanks so much for your comment on my photo selection. Actually I have only two or three more to add. As they are 35 mm slides I need to have them digitized. Due to the high security nature of the work going on there transient aircraft on non-business visits were not that common. Maybe one or so every couple of weeks. I did miss some good aircraft shots while there however : C-133, RB-50, YC-97, P-5 & RNZAF Sunderland (!).

jdvoss I send you a pm.

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Really neat photo's!

Thanks for sharing'em.

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David
1953 M38A1 jeep owner
& Student Pilot soloed 09/09/06
USAF 1984-1986

great shots!! Thanks for sharing

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Awesome pics, thanks for posting.

My Dad flew in there several times in the 60's in a Minnesota ANG C-97.

Great shots! I cannot believe how that Dayglo jumps out at you in those photos!

Scott

very nice.

Thanks

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S.

Thanks for the photo's. We flew through there in the 1960's with C-124's out of Dover. I was pleased to see a C-124 in the background of the first photo. It was in it's normal status; (cowling open on #2 engine and some hard working USAF mechanic on a B-1 stand fixing a shorted secondary).

John

The USN EC-121K pictured apparently still exists and can be seen at the Heritage Air Park at Tinker AFB, OK. It has been erronoulsy re-marked as a USAF EC-121D s/n 53-0552.

Here she is: Sorry the pictures aren't too good!

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Brad

Brad:

Thanks so much for posting the current day photos..good shots I might add! It appears that the USAF removed those two little blisters forward of the radome as seen on my orignal photo.

As a point of interest the US Army had an EC-121K at Kwajalein as well. It was kept at the other end of the runway in a secure area (i.e. no photographs). It had a revised top radome with optically flat glass for optical tracking of ICBM's. It was operated and maintained by a civilian contract crew.

There is now a "Part 2" of the Kwajalein ramp photo collection.

Thanks jdvoss for posting, I love looking at this kind of stuff, I never get tired of it.

I thought the same thing Second Air Force. That Dayglo stuff is really strange, it's almost as if it exists independent of the photographic process. I've experimented with a flexographic ink version of Dayglo at our palstic bag company but it's so expensive that I've never had a customer pull the trigger. I have vivid memories of the early F-15s here in St.Louis that had Dayglo wing tips.

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Some of the most outstanding aviation photographs I have every seen. Thank you for sharing.

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