The FReeper Foxhole - U S Army EOD Foxhole Fly-In - March 2nd, 2008

News from the Foxhole - Our personal blog ^ | March 2, 2008 | snippy about it

[U S Army EOD]

Can’t they fly, I saw a TV show once where some radio guy thought they could?

[PhilDragoo]

Brave wings.

Just read the F-117 retired, stripped, placed in museum setting with Blackbird. No doubt the F-22 is its successor. The retired Chief Scientist of the Air Force had us up over the last decade to work on his home, the impressive touch being the chrome F-22 on walnut with engraved plaque--he was no more retired than some of the airframes.

Sam, your tag calls to mind Stephen Coonts' Flight of the Intruder wherein Jake Grafton recounts LBJ's lament he was like the desperate applicant for the small-town teaching position queried by the school board member, "Do you believe the earth is round or flat?" and replying helpfully, "I can teach it either way."

One tech on some Los Alamos black projects reported tests run on a plane which videos the sky above it and projects the picture on its lower surface.

[Soaring Feather]

Wow Phil, that is so cool, love it!

[snippy_about_it]

One tech on some Los Alamos black projects reported tests run on a plane which videos the sky above it and projects the picture on its lower surface.

Very cool. The picture you posted is also.

[snippy_about_it]

...by the time I can make the flight down, you guys will have moved again

LOL. No kidding. I hope not. This time we should be settled in for at least a few years.

Three blogs, one for politics, one for our personal life and one for the dogs. I set up three so I could have all the url names saved. It is a good way to share stuff with friends and family and doesn't take near as long as a Foxhole thread takes to put together.

[snippy_about_it]

Can’t they fly...

LOL. "As God as my witness..."

[snippy_about_it]

The cockpit


The runway


Taxi

[SAMWolf]

:-)

[SAMWolf]

The Nighthawk is already retired???

Say it ain't so!!

[PhilDragoo]

F-117A Nighthawk lands for last time

Walked up to the rope at Andrews in 1994 (when smarter half's son graduated USNA) and chatted with public officer that the coating looked like resin and cloth put on in somebody's garage. Maroon beret guy with M-16 did not overhear; sign: "Lethal Force Authorized".

Clinton spoke 32 minutes that May in the NavyMarine stadium lying he couldn't arm the Bosnians (he was letting IRAN do it) and he wouldn't send our people (he did, though no national security involved, just to make world safe for muslims).

Clinton let the Rooskies get their hands on the downed Nighthawk though our pilots were raring to get in and blow it up on the ground.

I want the F-22 manufactured in China-intimidating numbers.

That's its job.

I think the 117 is like my 57 Chevy pickup which I sold but remember quite fondly for being stoutly built.

I think the F-22 radar makes Chinese pilots sterile at fifteen miles.

[alfa6]

Greeting s y’all, I missed the orginal ping somehow so thanks Phil for the ping. Them pics remind me of my college days, sigh...

Not much to report from KC, been busier than a one armed paper hanger at work. No major projects are on the schedule for this year but have plenty of smaller ones.

We were suppose to make a trip out to D.C. in a few weeks with alfa6 SR but his back is bothering him so maybe in May we can make one.

Y’all take care and glad that the trrip went well for all

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Ya like that? heh heh heh

[Soaring Feather]

Howdy Alfa6, good to hear from you!

Say hello to Mrs. Alfa, please.

[tomball]

Wonderful!!! So good to see the post . . . Hope everyone is well and doing well, too.

[snippy_about_it]

Hope your dad feels better soon.

[snippy_about_it]

Hey tomball, good to you also.

[SAMWolf]

Considering how long some planes have been flying, the B-52 and A-10 come to mind, it sure seems the F-117 has sure had a short life span.

[SAMWolf]

Hey Alfa6!! It’s those smaller ones that get ya. :-)

[alfa6]

Here's one of the small projects that I have in mind.

It's another retaining wall!!!! The pic is from when we started on the "Weekend Home Improvement Project" from a few years back.

This one will run from where the steps meet the fence to the back fence line, more or less. It measures out at about 65 feet and will only be 3 foot tall at it's highest point. Thats the good news, the bad news is that the blocks will proabably be the 85 pounders:-( The flower box between the house and the steps is made out of the same blocks.

I just got off the phone with my dad and his back is still bothering him. He was gonna come up this weekend but he is to sore, so he will try to come up Easter weekend.

I am going to be going on a mission trip with one of the guys from work to Port Aurthur, Texas next weekend I think. I will be helping to "escort" 35 high school kids, aye carumba!!! It all depends on if I can get off work next Thursday night. We would leave Thursday night, the 13th, about 10pm from KC and I am guessing that we get to Port Arthur about noon on Friday. We leave on Wednesaday the 19th about 10pm and get back to KC about noon on Thursday. We will be doing clean up and some carpentry work related to Hurricane Rita from a couple years ago.

Thr Mrs has been busy as well, she has almost finished another Raggedy Ann doll, here is a picture of the doll with our 21/2 year old grand daughter. Mrs alfa6 has figured out how to make the faces on her embrodiery machine which is kinda cool.

The Mrs made these for our first two girls for Christmas when they were about 6 and 4 IIRC. We put them in bed with them Christmas Eve nite and were awakened that morning by one of the girls screaming that there was a gaint doll in her bed, he he.

Well I gotta call it a night as I have to go to work in the morning. Y'all take care now

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Soaring Feather]

Howdy, Alfa6!

Love the Raggedy Ann! Tell Mrs. Alfa please, fabulous job.

Big project for you again this year. Best of luck to all.