See their aircraft quite often. They provide air charters for my college rivals basketball teams & occasionally for my college sports teams.

Written on 2020年12月23日

Belongs to the KC-97 & Boeing 377 Facebook groups

Written on 2020年09月21日

True, but if it’s not flying, it’s not making money

Written on 2020年09月15日

Unique viewpoint

Written on 2020年08月08日

Visits TCL quite a bit

Written on 2020年07月18日

Diana, yes the planes are in state Air National Guard units, but they belong to the Air Force. We couldn’t afford to keep all Fighter/Tanker/etc... units on Active Duty as it costs less to employ Guard/Reserve units than it does regular Active Air Force units. In event of an emergency or conflict like Desert Shield/Desert Storm, they can be “activated” for Federal duty overseas.

Many Guard/Reserve pilots are civilian airline pilots (who are probably happy to have flying opportunities (& a paycheck coming in) during the Covid pandemic...besides, if you’re a pilot you love to fly anything except a desk) & other Guard/Reserve members have civilian jobs on the outside

This country couldn’t respond to any crisis w/out the Guard/Reserve assets. After Vietnam, a lot of military assets/occupations were moved to the Guard/Reserve so any conflict after VN would have to involve the people of America.

There are enough things going on that even w/Guard/Reserve tankers, the military had to hire a civilian company, Omega Air Refueling; to provide air to air refueling assets w/707’s & DC-10’s.

http://www.omegaairrefueling.com/

Written on 2020年07月04日

Shades of John Belushi pulling up his P-40 in “1941” to fill up before blowing up the gas station.

Written on 2020年05月15日

Great looking lady....

Written on 2020年05月08日

Recognize that anywhere, that's Mt. Rainer in the background. Was stationed @ Ft. Lewis @ one time.

Written on 2020年04月27日

That looks like the “Autopilot” in the right front window

Written on 2020年03月18日