NAS Kwajalein : Flight Ramp 1963-64

[jdvoss]

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 (!).

[Nathan]

jdvoss I send you a pm.

[GIJOE290]

Really neat photo's!

Thanks for sharing'em.

[bugazon]

great shots!! Thanks for sharing

[mattsb2000]

Awesome pics, thanks for posting.

[b29flteng]

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

[Second Air Force]

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

Scott

[the330thbg]

very nice.

Thanks

[Chief]

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

[jdvoss]

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.

[Brad]

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!

[jdvoss]

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.

[jdvoss]

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

[astixjr]

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.

[Silverplate]

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