The B-29 "FiFi". Cheyenne Wyoming.

The B-29 "FiFi made an appearance in Cheyenne, Wyoming, recently.  These are some photos taken during its visit.

Heinkel HE 162, National Museum of Military Vehicles, Dubois Wyoming.

A very late war German fighter, only 120 were made.

Fire Bombers, Summer 2024. Natrona County International Airport.

This has been a horrible year for fires. There's nothing good about that whatsoever.

It has made for some interesting plane spotting, however.

Indeed, the airport put in a fire tanker station/base just last year.  That turned out to be, unfortunately, a good thing.

Bombardier CL-215-6B11 (CL-415) water scooper belonging to Aero-Flite Inc.

A C-130 fire bomber.

British Aerospace BAE 146 belonging to Neptune Aviation Services.

Air Tractor.

 

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, October 26, 1944. Gertrude Tompkins Silver.

Lex Anteinternet: Thursday, October 26, 1944. End of the Battle of ...: 

Thursday, October 26, 1944. End of the Battle of Leyte Gulf and the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Gertrude Tompkins Silver and the P-51D she was flying disappeared in a delivery flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.

She was 33 years old and had jointed the WASPs after a boyfriend died fighting in the RAF.  She was the only WASP pilot to be classified as missing during the Second World War.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. National Museum of Military Vehicles Dubois Wyoming.

 

A Mig-21 at the National Museum of Military Vehicles in Dubois, Wyoming.

The Mig 21 was one of the greatest of the Cold War fighters.

Airport customs office named for Leatham

 

Airport customs office named for Leatham

Delta To Pull Out Of Casper Airport, Last Flight Is Dec. 3

Blog Mirror: Pilot Makes Emergency Landing On I-25, Fixes Plane, Then Takes Off Again

Pilot Makes Emergency Landing On I-25, Fixes Plane, Then Takes Off Again

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2024. The times more or les...

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2024. The times more or les...: 

September 7, 2024

The Natrona County International Airport had its busiest month in a decade.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, September 6, 1924. Putting down in Boston.

Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, September 6, 1924. Putting down in Boston.:   

Saturday, September 6, 1924. Putting down in Boston.

 

And of course, it was Saturday.

Last edition:

Friday September 5, 1924. Back in the US.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Calvin Coolidge, First Around The World Flight, Maine, U.S. Air Force

Lex Anteinternet: Space National Guard? Spare us.

Lex Anteinternet: Space National Guard? Spare us.: 

Space National Guard? Spare us.

The time has come to create a Space National Guard as the primary combat reserve of the U.S. Space Force.  So as president, I will sign historic legislation creating a space National Guard.

Donald Trump, yesterday, at the National Guard Association Convention.

The Space Force is frankly absurd and ought to be abolished, with its enlisted men folded back into the Air Force and its officers assigned permanent duty at Tasty Freeze drive up windows. 

But a Space Force National Guard?

Please, no.

Of course, if a bill like that passes through Congress, and as goofy as Congress has been in recent years, it probably would, no State Governor is going to turn down the chance to have the Mos Eisley Space Guard station put in their state, so every state will end up with a squadron of "Guardians".

The Space Force is flat out dumb.  It's duties belong in the Air Force.  One of the unfortunate legacies of the Trump administration, however, is this absurd new branch of the service.

Would that sanity would reign and it would go away.