Eddie Andrinni's Yakovlev Yak 9 at Travis AFB for the public air show in 2008. Sadly, Eddie passed away at the 2014 version of the event when his Stearman crashed upside down during a stunt due to a shift in the wind at low altitude. That's Eddie there in the red flight suit to the right of the picture.....sean

 

Above, flying with some F-18s over the desert....delivering them to their FOB somewhere in the AOR.
Below, an F-16 on our wing as we moved a squadron out of the AOR going state side. Something any veteran can relate to as being a relief, and a great excitement to be headed home. It felt like that even to those of us just enabling the move.

 

Wart. Hog. Nuff, said.

 

Strike Eagles...AKA, Mud Chickens.

 

The B-1....B-one.....Bone

 

The back story for this image is that I, along with one of my young airman were tasked with an air refueling mission on a Sunday. Now, Sunday missions aren't completely out of the ordinary or anything but they are fairly rare at home station. It is more normal to not fly on Sundays as it is a weekend and being the good neighbor, the Air Force typically doesn't schedule training flights over the weekends. The AFRES? That's another story all together. Now my airman and I took off knowing the mission and what we were going to do....in relation to our business. We knew we would be flying to the Southern part of the state and we'd be in an A/R track and we would off-load some specified amount of fuel to a receiver aircraft. So, when we got to our rendezvous point and got set up for the refueling we opened the sighting door to see the image above. Turned out, we were doing this air refueling for the B-2 pilot training....and they were going to do a flyover of the Rose Bowl after. I had to stop and think for a moment.....that the flight of the Question Mark had conducted aerial refueling over the Rose Bowl 75 years before. A pioneering event for both the Air Force and the aerial refueling community. Kind of cool.....sean

 

Took part in operation trident juncture in Spain.

Flew straight from Ft. Bragg in 7 c-17s to zaragoza spain and dropped in about 500 paratroopers. Had a good time drinking and exploring for a few days before we flew back and jumped back intro Bragg.

 

Dang.....a quick trip to Spain, cool

 

SWEET!!! I bet the residents around ZAB were crapping themselves seeing that many airborne dropping in!!! Never made it to ZAB while it was open and by the time I made it to Spain the base was closed. Spent alot of time at Morón AB though. For today's contribution, anyone have a thought on what this picture is of?:

 

A Southern Electronics Incorporated (SEI) 60K lbs aircraft loader (Tunner)

6V53 series Detroit Diesel....two stroke, turbo and supercharged. The thing won't run above idle without the additional forced induction......only about 350 HP outta this thing and the pistons are the size of coffee cans!!