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Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:20 pm

Larry:

Thanks so much for your comment on my photo selection. Actually I have only two or three more to add. As they are 35 mm slides I need to have them digitized. Due to the high security nature of the work going on there transient aircraft on non-business visits were not that common. Maybe one or so every couple of weeks. I did miss some good aircraft shots while there however : C-133, RB-50, YC-97, P-5 & RNZAF Sunderland (!).

Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:11 am

jdvoss I send you a pm.

Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:52 am

Really neat photo's! :D 8)

Thanks for sharing'em.

Wed Nov 26, 2008 12:49 am

great shots!! Thanks for sharing

Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:41 am

Awesome pics, thanks for posting.

Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:39 pm

My Dad flew in there several times in the 60's in a Minnesota ANG C-97.

Sat Nov 29, 2008 1:33 am

Great shots! I cannot believe how that Dayglo jumps out at you in those photos!

Scott

The "Conny" is one of my favorite birds

Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:33 am

very nice.

Thanks

Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:08 am

Thanks for the photo's. We flew through there in the 1960's with C-124's out of Dover. I was pleased to see a C-124 in the background of the first photo. It was in it's normal status; (cowling open on #2 engine and some hard working USAF mechanic on a B-1 stand fixing a shorted secondary).

John

EC-121

Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:11 pm

The USN EC-121K pictured apparently still exists and can be seen at the Heritage Air Park at Tinker AFB, OK. It has been erronoulsy re-marked as a USAF EC-121D s/n 53-0552.

Re: EC-121

Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:31 pm

jdvoss wrote:The USN EC-121K pictured apparently still exists and can be seen at the Heritage Air Park at Tinker AFB, OK. It has been erronoulsy re-marked as a USAF EC-121D s/n 53-0552.



Here she is: Sorry the pictures aren't too good!

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USAF update of the EC-121

Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:44 pm

Brad:

Thanks so much for posting the current day photos..good shots I might add! It appears that the USAF removed those two little blisters forward of the radome as seen on my orignal photo.

As a point of interest the US Army had an EC-121K at Kwajalein as well. It was kept at the other end of the runway in a secure area (i.e. no photographs). It had a revised top radome with optically flat glass for optical tracking of ICBM's. It was operated and maintained by a civilian contract crew.

Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:32 pm

There is now a "Part 2" of the Kwajalein ramp photo collection.

Sun Jun 07, 2009 10:31 pm

Second Air Force wrote:Great shots! I cannot believe how that Dayglo jumps out at you in those photos!

Scott


Thanks jdvoss for posting, I love looking at this kind of stuff, I never get tired of it.

I thought the same thing Second Air Force. That Dayglo stuff is really strange, it's almost as if it exists independent of the photographic process. I've experimented with a flexographic ink version of Dayglo at our palstic bag company but it's so expensive that I've never had a customer pull the trigger. I have vivid memories of the early F-15s here in St.Louis that had Dayglo wing tips.

Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:38 pm

Some of the most outstanding aviation photographs I have every seen. Thank you for sharing.
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