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Yanks Air Museum's website

Wed Jan 29, 2014 5:35 pm

I tried getting onto their website www.yanksair.com but it says, "there is a problem with this website's security certificate" Can anyone tell me what that means. Has their site been hacked or otherwise compromised?

Re: Yanks Air Museum's website

Wed Jan 29, 2014 6:17 pm

Pat - it looks like the normal address is now redirected to a secure (https://yanksair.com) address and the SSL certificate (which makes the connection encrypted, for credit card info, etc.) for the secure site has expired. It may be simply an admin issue or web configuration issue. You might want to contact the site's webmaster with this info. My 2 cents.

Randy

Re: Yanks Air Museum's website

Sat Feb 01, 2014 1:13 pm

Might be just hard to find good help these days but based on my own IT experience I expect you're right about the expired security certificate. It's just an admin matter - i.e. money to renew registration.

Even so, I wrote to them probably more than a year ago to point out that the information on their Grumman Goose page was backwards - they listed its "cruise" speed as 191 mph but its "top speed" as only 130 mph. That didn't make any sense, so I wrote - and they replied, acknowledging the mistake, but here it is something like a year or more later and they STILL haven't made the correction on the Web site.

https://yanksair.com/Products/175/98/Grumman-G-21A-Goose/

Also noticed that the Web page for their "G-64 / UH-16" Albatross contains an error or two as well - because it is actually a long-wing variant (i.e. no longer a design no. G-64 aircraft which had a short wing.) And of course "UH-16" is incorrectly transposed from "HU-16". According to my notes, N7024S is in fact an ex-USAF HU-16B, USAF serial no. 51- 7195 (Grumman OEM serial no. G-258) which was converted from a short-wing design no. G-64 aircraft to a long-wing design no. (not "model") G-111 aircraft as Project no. 85B (i.e. the 86th such long-wing conversion for the USAF out of 89; nos. 00B through 88B)

https://yanksair.com/Products/71/110/Grumman-G-64-Albatross-UH-16/
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