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A56 said:
Porsche 906 crash test - old fashioned way.
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Reminds me. My Dad was workin' on a project at LAX while I was still up here at Vandenberg AFB workin'. He was oiling on a 95t conventional crane. Conventionals have the option of using gravity to lower a load other than that hydrocrane having to power the load down only. He said they were swinging the boom over the parking lot when the brake on the whip line (single part line used for lighter loads) failed to hold the winch spool and down came the headache ball. It takes quite a bit of weight to peel a 3/4" cable off of a winch, headache ball probably close to 18" in diameter iron ball plus the hook and such. That sucker landed right in the middle of a early 80s model Corvette :eek: :lol:He said it kinda bent the Vette into a V shape :rofl:
 
A56 said:
lol, not that one, but a 1970 Ford Econoline window van. Mostly just referring to the era, getting gas in the morning chill.
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understood

i spend my free winter months plowing snow...pumping gas (wel diesel) in the morning chill gets old soon
 
hemi71x said:
I was thinking the same thing.
Wonder when it was done, how long it lasted?
Seen the old F-4's go thru different paints, but not an A-10 like that.
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What base is WR?
That's not one of ours, is it?
 
diymirage said:
What base is WR?
That's not one of ours, is it?
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Ya, must be a foreign countries planes?
Who's i dunno.
BUT
I was thinkin Warner Robbins?

The ZR on the tail of the Phantom, in my signature picture, that i was the crew chief for, stood for Zweibrucken Reconnaissance, a base in Germany, from 1970-1991

Tail Code U.S. Air Force Base - Unit
AF USAF Academy, CO
AK Elmendorf AFB, AK - 3rd WIng
AK Eielson AFB, AK - 354th FW
AU Maxwell AFB, AL
BB Beale AFB, CA
BD Barksdale AFB, LA
CB Columbus AFB, MS
CC Cannon AFB, NM
CO Buckley ANGB, CO
CR Peterson AFB, CO - 302nd AW
CS Peterson AFB, CO - 21st SPW
DB Dobbins ARB, GA
DC Andrews AFB, MD
DM Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ - 355th Wing
DR Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ - 939th RQW
DY Dyess AFB, TX
ED Edwards AFB, CA
EG Eglin AFB, FL
EL Ellsworth AFB, SD
EN Sheppard AFB, TX
ET Eglin AFB, FL
FC Fairchild AFB, WA
FF Langley AFB, VA
FF or FL Patrick AFB, FL
FM Homestead ARB, FL
FT Pope AFB, NC
GA Robins AFB, GA
GF Grand Forks AFB, ND
HI Hill AFB, UT - 419th FW
HL Hill AFB, UT - 388th FW
HO Holloman AFB, NM - 49th FW
HT Holloman AFB, NM - 46th TG
HV Vandenberg AFB, CA
JS Robins AFB, GA
KC Whiteman AFB, MO
KS or KT Keesler AFB, MS
LA Barksdale AFB, LA - 2nd BW
LF Luke AFB, AZ - 56th FW
LR Luke AFB, AZ - 944th FW
LK Little Rock AFB, AR
MI Selfridge ANGB - 127th FW
MM Malmstrom AFB, MT
MO Mountain Home AFB, ID
MT Minot AFB, ND - 5th BW
MX Maxwell AFB, AL
MY Moody AFB, GA
NJ McGuire AFB, NJ
NM Kirtland AFB, NM
OF Offutt AFB, NE
OK Tinker AFB, OK
OT Eglin AFB, FL
OT Cannon AFB, NM
PF Peterson AFB, CO
RA Randolph AFB, TX
RS Ramstein AFB, Germany - 86th Airlift Wing
SA Kelly AFB, TX
SD Sioux Falls, S.D. - 114th FW
SH Tinker AFB, OK
SJ Seymour Johnson AFB, NC
SM McClellan AFB, CA
SS McClellan AFB, CA
SW Shaw AFB, SC
TX NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX
TY Tyndall AFB, FL
VN Vance AFB, OK
WA Nellis AFB, NV
WE Tyndall AFB, FL
WM Whiteman AFB, MO
XL Laughlin AFB, TX
ZZ Kadena AB, Japan
 
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diymirage said:
What base is WR?
That's not one of ours, is it?
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A-10 WR RAF Bentwaters

Now WR is Warner Robbins


AR 10 TRW 1, 30, 32 TRS RAF Alconbury

BT 36 TFW 22, 53, 525 TFS Bitburg AB, Germany

HR 50 TFW 10, 313, 496 TFS Hahn AB, Germany

LK 48 TFW 492, 493, 493 TFS RAF Lakenheath

RS 26 TRW 38 TRS, 526 TFS Ramstein AB, Germany

SP 52 TFW 23, TFS, 39 TEWS Spangdahlem AB, Germany

TJ 401 TFW 612, 613, 614 TFS Torrejon AB, Spain

UH 20 TFW 55, 77, 79 TFS RAF Upper Heyford

WR 81 TFW 78, 91, 92 TFS RAF Bentwaters

ZR 86 TFW 17 TRS Zweibrucken AB, Germany
 
So, you got it figured out that we painted them up that color scheme stationed at a Brit base?
They do have the US insignia star on the front end of the fuselage.
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80-0168 / WR Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II (cn A10-0518) US Air Force.
Fairford (FFD / EGVA)

UK - England, July 1991.

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A56 said:
80-0168 / WR Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II (cn A10-0518) US Air Force.
Fairford (FFD / EGVA)

UK - England, July 1991.

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So then, they were USAF aircraft from FAIRCHILD AFB, here in the USA, deployed over to the British base, for whatever reasons?

My old F-4 used to go to a base in Holland, sometimes Italy, on a fairly regular basis, and fly out of there for mission training.
 
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