Recent content by denoferth

At 79, after surviving melanoma, prostrate removal, three surgical procedures to remove intestinal growths and stage 4 Non-Hodgsons Limphoma I would advise her to never give up hope and to try every megadose vitamin regamin she can find and never lose hope.

As someone somewhat familiar with balloons at extreme heights having been involved with them at Kadena supporting the Black Bird program and again at Air Force Cambridge Research Labratories I can't help but wonder why someone hasn't thought of simply making a close pass over the top of the...

Thank you, WAFU. Informational posts like your's are the reason I subscribe.

While assigned to the 485th E&I Sq at Griffiss AFB one of my wife's frend's husbands had been a tanker in Korea. Among the many stories he related was thier relief when they finally had their Shermans replaced with 90mm equipped M48's. As a confidence builder his commander had the new gun fired...

My particular favorite is the so called "history channel" penchant for showing a flight of SBD's each and every time the story line calls for Japanese dive bombers to attack USN ships.

Early in 1975 the lab branch of Air Force Cambridge Research Labratories (AFCRL) I was assigned to at the time: Strataform Cloud Physics Lab leased an isolated valley in Northern Calafornia outside Willitts. Dispite the local loggers being convinced we were preparing for armagedden we were...

Small world. While assigned to the Cumulus Cloud Physics Branch of Cambridge Research Labratory I was tasked to develop the prototype lightning detector.

I sold firearms at Kittery Trading Post for 17 years where we saw these WWII drillings traded in not infrequently. Every one I saw was in 12 ga/9X72R.

I flew on 53-33133 in the early 1970's at Air Force Cambridge Research Labratories during "Severe weather penetration", weather modafication, ABRES missions and other meterological research studies as a "project crew member". Best job I ever had.

J Sure was cold in the back when up high though. Kadena to MaClellen, 1967.

There was a B-36 on display at the former Chanute AFB when I attended weather equipment maintenance training in the 1960's. Legend was it had been damaged while landing and the fuselage was a bit shorter than originaly designed. Rumor was that although padlocked industrious students found ways...

During our Kinchelo AFB weather squadron party on the shore of Lake Superior I had one too many beers so decided to take a swim to cool off. With mask, snorkel & fins I headed out scanning the bottom for signs of life. The bottom was boring and I fell into a routine mechanicly paddling away as...

Records can certainly be screwed up. While assigned to AFCRL doing what we called severe weather penetration research in an NC-130A we were receiving both flight and hazard duty pay. This confused finance to no end to the point where the entire crew lost an entire month of flight pay that was...

Never ever confuse education with intelligence.

I suspect those of us whose grandparents also immigrated to America as pollacks, dagos or spicks and any number of other foreigners can all sympathize with their experience.