We had a neighbor that had one previous to the 8N. It was all grey in color no red paint. I think it was called Ferguson - Ford. If I remember right i...
ShawnI wouldn't call the U-2 a difficult plane to fly. I has an awfully bad name for accidents. It depended on previous experience more than anything ...
Holy Cow, I can feel for you driving the tractor up and back, up and back. I was a farm boy from rural North Carolina. You were lucky driving a tracto...
A PA-18, now there is a nice plane. Would love to have one myself but the price is way to much for something to play with. My play toy is a 1946 Piper...
With Surveying flat on it's butt around here. There is plenty of time to travel, only problem is my Butt isn't up to traveling that it once was. Don't...
Contrast this pressure suit that I wore in the U-2 in 1967. The outer garment is on the hanger that will be put on over the pressure gear. The outer g...
Got it all together!That is one heck of an installation. Looks like the one in the PDF file that Glenn mentioned. Glad to see you got it all together....
Tim,I purchased a mounting bracket for Wild Distomat on E-bay back in April. It was purchased fromForm Cutter Specialties15224 SE 296th StreetKent, WA...
The bomber with the three pusher props on each side was the Convair B-36 Peacemaker and the last versions of the plane had four jets, two in a pod on ...
I was based at Mcconnell AFB in 1959 for initial B-47 training. Wichita was real nice, wasn't there in the winter though. If I remember right the worl...
My wife nags me when she sees me dragging in something that I want and she doesn't. She complains and says what am I going to do with all this stuff w...
I purchased a T2002 in January. It came with two GEB68 batteries. The batteries had been re-celled in October of 2013 and luckily the internal battery...
Must have been the days at the Seminar in Virginia at NGS a couple of years ago. Congratulations.Jerry M. Davis
You might take a look at the following:This is a page of the Department of the Army TM 5-232.The above link is two photographs of the Wild T-3, by loo...
There Should Be Computer OptionsPaul, the Leica 399 is antenna and receiver in one housing. It has two Lemo connectors. One can be used for power the ...
Mike,I was not at Carswell in 1965. I was there for three days in the late part of 1964 to get fitted for a pressure suit and an altitude chamber ride...
On that day in 1963 I was assigned a flight. The aircraft was a B-47E, tail number was 53-2141, at Schilling AFB, Salina, Kansas. Our takeoff was 10 ...
