Saturday, June 7, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
Dover Reunion Update - CLARIFICATION OF SATURDAY SCHEDULE!!
For any of you still paying attention to this blog, I apologize for some slightly murky information! My right hand finally met Hank's right hand IN the 133 at the Museum this morning, and here's the clarification:
Saturday, 5/10:
2:00 pm: Hospitality Suite, Room 425, Dover Downs Hotel opens for socializing. IF you all don't drink all the beer & wine today at the Museum, any left-overs will be provided at that time.
4:30 pm: Cash bar opens in Ballroom A where the banquet will be held.
5:30 pm: Ballroom A, butts in the seats for the Honor Guard and Pledge of Allegiance.
6:00 pm: Dinner Welcome begins, with program later.
9:00 pm: Hospitality Suite, Room 425, available for late mingling for "long ball hitters."
The Last Last Hurrah has begun!
And George Maiorana and his AMAZING Giant 133 Model from MIchigan are IN the C-133 cargo compartment for display. He will taxi it around for us sometime, weather permitting (tbd).
ENJOY!!
Saturday, 5/10:
2:00 pm: Hospitality Suite, Room 425, Dover Downs Hotel opens for socializing. IF you all don't drink all the beer & wine today at the Museum, any left-overs will be provided at that time.
4:30 pm: Cash bar opens in Ballroom A where the banquet will be held.
5:30 pm: Ballroom A, butts in the seats for the Honor Guard and Pledge of Allegiance.
6:00 pm: Dinner Welcome begins, with program later.
9:00 pm: Hospitality Suite, Room 425, available for late mingling for "long ball hitters."
The Last Last Hurrah has begun!
And George Maiorana and his AMAZING Giant 133 Model from MIchigan are IN the C-133 cargo compartment for display. He will taxi it around for us sometime, weather permitting (tbd).
ENJOY!!
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Dover Reunion Update - URGENT BREAKING NEWS!
Hank Baker has scored another coup! He's recruited the Dover Honor Guard to open the Grand Diamond Anniversary Banquet on Saturday evening! So the event will start at 5:30 pm, instead of the previously published time of 6:00 pm!
The Hospitality Suite will open in Dover Downs, Room 425, at 4:30, then you need to be in Banquet Hall A by 5:30!
See you soon!!
Dick H.
The Hospitality Suite will open in Dover Downs, Room 425, at 4:30, then you need to be in Banquet Hall A by 5:30!
See you soon!!
Dick H.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Final Week Reunion Countdown
We have 95 Crew Colleagues attending our Reunion next weekend, with 84 Guests (179 total). A fantastic turn-out!
Our Reunion Emcee, Rick Spencer, in his planning for our gathering, suggested I distribute the following link to an important YouTube video you will enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnodU1mCrPA&feature=related . A very appropriate way to begin our Diamond Anniversary Reunion (60 years since Douglas was contracted to build 50 C-133s). And here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia reference for Design & Development:
The C-133 was designed to meet the requirements for the USAF's Logistic Carrier Support System SS402L for a new strategic transport.[1] The aircraft differed considerably from the C-74 Globemaster and C-124 Globemaster IIs that had preceded it. A high-mounted wing, external blister fairings on each side for the landing gear, and rear-loading and side-loading doors ensured that access to, and the volume of, the large cargo compartment were not compromised by these structures. The cargo compartment (90 ft/27 m in length and 12 ft/3.7 m high) was pressurized, heated, and ventilated.[2]
The Cargomasters went directly into production as C-133A; no prototypes were built. The first Cargomaster flew on 23 April 1956.[3] The first C-133As were delivered to the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) in August 1957 and began flying MATS air routes throughout the world. Two C-133s established transatlantic speed records for transport aircraft on their first flights to Europe. The fleet of 50 aircraft proved itself invaluable during the Vietnam War. The Cargomaster soldiered on until theLockheed C-5 Galaxy entered service in the early 1970s. The C-133 was then retired and most airplanes were cut up as soon as they were delivered to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, on their final flights in 1971.
Fifty aircraft (32 C-133A and 18 C-133B) were constructed and put into service with the USAF. A single C-133A and a C-133B were built and kept at Douglas Long Beach as "test articles". They had no construction numbers or USAF tail numbers.
To reference the entire Wikipedia document, click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-133_Cargomaster
Finally, there was some breaking news this afternoon out of Travis AFB, where Cal Taylor and his 133 Crew Colleagues are having a Travis Reunion this weekend: "Plane crashes during base air show" click on: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/05/04/plane-show-crash-travis/8699935/
You never know!! Travel safe getting to the Reunion! We want to see you all there!!
Dick Hanson
Our Reunion Emcee, Rick Spencer, in his planning for our gathering, suggested I distribute the following link to an important YouTube video you will enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnodU1mCrPA&feature=related . A very appropriate way to begin our Diamond Anniversary Reunion (60 years since Douglas was contracted to build 50 C-133s). And here's an excerpt from the Wikipedia reference for Design & Development:
The C-133 was designed to meet the requirements for the USAF's Logistic Carrier Support System SS402L for a new strategic transport.[1] The aircraft differed considerably from the C-74 Globemaster and C-124 Globemaster IIs that had preceded it. A high-mounted wing, external blister fairings on each side for the landing gear, and rear-loading and side-loading doors ensured that access to, and the volume of, the large cargo compartment were not compromised by these structures. The cargo compartment (90 ft/27 m in length and 12 ft/3.7 m high) was pressurized, heated, and ventilated.[2]
The Cargomasters went directly into production as C-133A; no prototypes were built. The first Cargomaster flew on 23 April 1956.[3] The first C-133As were delivered to the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) in August 1957 and began flying MATS air routes throughout the world. Two C-133s established transatlantic speed records for transport aircraft on their first flights to Europe. The fleet of 50 aircraft proved itself invaluable during the Vietnam War. The Cargomaster soldiered on until theLockheed C-5 Galaxy entered service in the early 1970s. The C-133 was then retired and most airplanes were cut up as soon as they were delivered to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, on their final flights in 1971.
Fifty aircraft (32 C-133A and 18 C-133B) were constructed and put into service with the USAF. A single C-133A and a C-133B were built and kept at Douglas Long Beach as "test articles". They had no construction numbers or USAF tail numbers.
To reference the entire Wikipedia document, click on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-133_Cargomaster
Finally, there was some breaking news this afternoon out of Travis AFB, where Cal Taylor and his 133 Crew Colleagues are having a Travis Reunion this weekend: "Plane crashes during base air show" click on: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/05/04/plane-show-crash-travis/8699935/
You never know!! Travel safe getting to the Reunion! We want to see you all there!!
Dick Hanson
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Dover Reunion Welcoming Address
Our venerable Reunion Emcee, Rick Spencer has shared with us the text of his Welcoming Remarks for our Diamond Anniversary Reunion on May 9th & 10th. We know many of you would like to be with us, but couldn't make it. We think you'll agree that Rick has captured the essence of our common bond:
Welcoming Address for the C-133A Diamond Anniversary Reunion at DAFB:
May, 2014, Presented Upon Behalf of
the Reunion Committee
Ladies,
gentlemen, and guests, this evening we welcome one another back to DAFB for the
C-133’s seventh and final reunion, and to celebrate our Diamond anniversary
year.
Tonight,
we also pay homage to those members not with us because of illness, the natural
passages of life, or the fatal accidents that we endured.
I am
honored, humbled, and somewhat nervous to be here before you, peers all, as MC
and part of this final gathering of old friends who were colleagues at one
time. It has been some 60 years almost to the day since the Douglas C-133A
Cargomaster was initially funded and a few years later rolled out for its debut
in California. We can all say that we have been with it in spirit, if not body,
from its beginning to its end.
Given the
size of the USAF and the years gone by, we were a very small group maintaining
and flying a very large airplane around the world. It was an ‘eye popper’ for
all those seeing it. We were
involved in important and memorable missions with the best air and ground crews
ever assembled. Should I use the word ‘elite’ to describe us all? I think so! When one surveys today’s aero technology, we were iron men in
wooden ships.
There
were a mere fifty C-133’s built, based at two locations, and their lifespan and
“heyday’, the 1960’s, were compressed into a very short period compared to
nearly all other AF aircraft. The final landing of a C-133A, 61999, some 35 years
after its official retirement and subsequent private ownership, was at the
Travis Air Show in 2008 prior to it becoming a part of their AMC Museum
display. Now, sadly, there are no more.
In one of
the quirks of our history, the C-133A now at Travis AFB was originally a DAFB
bird, and the display here was originally a Travis bird. That incongruity between what one would
expect to happen and what actually happened has created a closer relationship
between the two Museums and among all the veterans associated with this
historic transport. We are now
family; and, we now have an obligation, one to the other, to maintain these
special aircraft that were an unusually important phase in the life of military
cargo flight. . And, we therefore
offer kudos to those doing so at the Dover AFB AMC Museum, as well as Travis
AFB.
As an
example of the unique capabilities of both the crews and the Cargomaster, our
C-133A set a number of unofficial records, including records for military
transport aircraft on trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific routes. Among the
longest were non-stop flights from Tachikawa AB, Japan to Travis AFB, CA (17:20
hours on 22 May 1959, and Hickam AFB, HI to Dover AFB, DE in about 16 hours.
The only FAI officially sanctioned record was in December 1958, when C-133A
62008 lifted a payload of 117,900 lb to an altitude of 10,000 ft at Dover AFB,
DE. I would surmise that some here
tonight had a direct hand in these and other records.
Our
reunions, including this 7th, have always celebrated a grand and glorious
interval of our life- that of our service in the USAF, our personal
relationship with the C-133A, and Dover AFB. We were young then, very young,
and it was a time like no other in our lives. For those our age, throughout our
military service and most of our civilian lives, we were actively involved in
the containment of Communism. And, it was for good reason. Communism killed over 100,000,000 men,
women, and children, not to mention the near 30,000,000 of its subjects that
died in its often-aggressive wars and the rebellions it provoked. Communism was the great and evil story
of the twentieth century and at its zenith, ruled a third of mankind. It seemed
poised to spread indefinitely and then it collapsed like a house of cards. It
had violated one of the basic tenets of civilization, “Thou shalt not kill.”
But, for
us, Peace was our nation’s tenet, and DAFB C-133’s were integral in mission
support of our country’s fundamental belief in worldwide democracy leading to
individual freedoms. Unfortunately, what we have learned from history and
endured throughout our life is that peace is a far more complex affair than
war. So complex that peace often seems beyond humanity’s reach.
The
century of our lives became the bloodiest of all time in spite of our best
efforts toward peaceful resolutions. Atrocitologists
have estimated total military and civilian casualties ranging up to
275,000,000. Thucydides the Greek first noted almost
twenty-five centuries ago that peace is an armistice in a war that is continually
going on. And, so it seems.
However,
this continuous ongoing and out pouring of concern for one another for well
over 50 years poses an interesting but central question, “Why?” Our mere
attendance would seem to suggest a simple answer; enduring friendship
engendered by our small size with a big mission. We flew the line with dangerous cargo to risky and unusual
places. Flying the line gave us an independence and responsibility here and in
foreign countries at a young age that few ever obtain. Adding to that was the short span of
operational years along with the high percentage of mysterious losses that
created a special esprit de corps among us.
But, the
“Why” is more complex than that and we have to look into antiquity to
understand it. So, here is the
more complex answer to these many years leading to a Diamond Reunion among the
few USAF veterans associated with the C-133A at DAFB.
The
reasons for our reunion and hundreds of others involving military veterans
revolve about two concepts: one important to the nation; and, the other
important to those who served the nation in uniform.
The
former, importance to the nation, is the common sense observation that escapes
many of our citizens and the political bodies of the country: that military
organizations exist to win wars.
Winning the nation’s wars is the military’s functional imperative. In fact, it is the only reason for a
liberal society to maintain standing armies. We were personally a part of that important national
organization dedicated to preserving freedom and protecting our citizens. We
were proud to be so and to do so.
And, we remain so.
The
latter, importance to the veterans, is traced to antiquity. Aristotle conceived it and the Greeks
called it ”philia”. It is broadly
defined as ‘brotherly love’ and it
is the glue of the military ethos, then and now. It is that bond formed among disparate individuals who may
have nothing in common but facing the dangerous unknowns of military duty. We
performed personal acts to help one another that were inherently good. That was the major critical factor for
our success during some of the trying times we faced with the C-133A.
As we
were few in numbers, every single person was important; one to the other, as a
friend, as a professional colleague, and as a cog in the always-turning wheel
leading to successful mission accomplishment. The tragic loss of one was a loss
to all, as our relationships were based upon loyalty, affection, and a shared
experience.
“Philia” exists to this day as the foundation for all military organizations throughout the world. The many reunions of veterans that we see taking place every year, including ours, results from an ethos first noted by the ancient Greeks. It exists in the USAF from the ground crews to the flight crews; and, tonight we have participants from all levels of our C-133 organization. Philia never leaves the individual and the individual never leaves the military. That ethos, ‘brotherly love’, remains to our last.
During these reunion days we have been enjoying the fruits of our ‘enduring friendships’ that were fostered by our ‘brotherly love’ that began over 50 years ago here at DAFB. They were the offspring of our relationship with the world’s flagship military air transport, the C-133A Cargomaster. It was the unselfish nature of service for the nation in the uniform of the USAF that brings us together, once again, for the last time, for celebration and to embrace America’s Exceptionalism.
I am not
certain there is another AF retiree group that shares such mutual feelings of
trust and affection as we. We were
one then; we are one now; and, we will remain as one to the last! However, after this night’s
event, we will slowly fade away; as do all good citizen soldiers with the
knowledge that we helped secure a better and safer life for our families, the
nation, and the world.
We were
not heroes; we were just ordinary citizens from all walks of American life
dedicated to the preservation and the good will of our beloved country. We can stand proudly knowing that we
did our duty by honoring our country without rancor during one of its most
troubled and dangerous time. I
ask: What more could we have done? We have accomplished our mission, and this
evening we shall rejoice in the peace of such knowledge.
Tonight,
for a short time we are once again young, so enjoy your meal, enjoy your
stories, and enjoy the time together that has been so fleeting.
Upon
behalf of the reunion committee we offer a sincere welcome, and thank you for
your attendance.
Richard L. Spencer, Ph.D.
Lt Col, USAF
Ret.
39th
ATS, MATS
DAFB, DE 1962-1965
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Dover Reunion Update
WOW! Talk about exceeding expectations!!
Our Registered Reunion Headcount has hit 160!!
But the LAST Last Deadline for the LAST Last Reunion is here!
May 1st is it, Folks. Can't add any more after that.
We'll miss all of you who can't make it. But it's going to be a Grand Sayonara to the Old Dover 133 Gang!!
Best wishes to all!
Our Registered Reunion Headcount has hit 160!!
But the LAST Last Deadline for the LAST Last Reunion is here!
May 1st is it, Folks. Can't add any more after that.
We'll miss all of you who can't make it. But it's going to be a Grand Sayonara to the Old Dover 133 Gang!!
Best wishes to all!
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Dover Reunion Update
UP, UP and AWAY!!!!!
You knocked it out of the park!!
We're closing it out tomorrow with
148 ATTENDING!!
WAY MORE THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
IT'S GOING TO BE A GRAND CELEBRATION!!!!
We'll miss all of you who couldn't make it. But please keep in touch for more reports and photos!
Grateful for your response,
Your Reunion Planning Committee
You knocked it out of the park!!
We're closing it out tomorrow with
148 ATTENDING!!
WAY MORE THAN WE EVER IMAGINED!!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!
IT'S GOING TO BE A GRAND CELEBRATION!!!!
We'll miss all of you who couldn't make it. But please keep in touch for more reports and photos!
Grateful for your response,
Your Reunion Planning Committee
Friday, March 21, 2014
Dover Reunion Update
Start your engines, 133 Crew Colleagues!!
Thanks for your great response! We’re well over 100 paid, and if a few more of you get your checks in, we could have 130!!
So we’re extending our deadline to 3/31
After that, we really need to finalize attendance for the Saturday Banquet at Dover Downs.
We know that a few of you are “on the bubble” with issues to resolve to make it. We truly hope you can.
We also know there are many who really want to be there and just can’t. Please keep in touch with our updates, and photos of the event will be posted on this blog.
Here’s the agenda for the Reunion:
Friday, 5/09:
9:00 am to 4:30 pm, AMC Museum Hangar and C-133 Aircraft on Display.
4:30 to 6:30 pm, beer, wine and chicken & ribs buffet
Saturday, 5/10:
9:00 am to 4:00 pm, AMC Museum Hangar, more mingling and shared stories.
4:00 to 6:00 pm, Hospitality Suite, Dover Downs (Room to be announced).
6:00 pm, Seating for dinner and program in Banquet Hall, Dover Downs.
Our Diamond Anniversary Party is gonna be Grand!
See you in May!
Thanks for your great response! We’re well over 100 paid, and if a few more of you get your checks in, we could have 130!!
So we’re extending our deadline to 3/31
After that, we really need to finalize attendance for the Saturday Banquet at Dover Downs.
We know that a few of you are “on the bubble” with issues to resolve to make it. We truly hope you can.
We also know there are many who really want to be there and just can’t. Please keep in touch with our updates, and photos of the event will be posted on this blog.
Here’s the agenda for the Reunion:
Friday, 5/09:
9:00 am to 4:30 pm, AMC Museum Hangar and C-133 Aircraft on Display.
4:30 to 6:30 pm, beer, wine and chicken & ribs buffet
Saturday, 5/10:
9:00 am to 4:00 pm, AMC Museum Hangar, more mingling and shared stories.
4:00 to 6:00 pm, Hospitality Suite, Dover Downs (Room to be announced).
6:00 pm, Seating for dinner and program in Banquet Hall, Dover Downs.
Our Diamond Anniversary Party is gonna be Grand!
See you in May!
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Dover Reunion Update
Thank you for the surge in plans to join us in May! If all of you who are paid, plus those who replied "Yes" come through with your checks, we'll have 110 attendees. As soon as I confirm payments, I'll publish a list.
We are well aware of many of you who really want to come, but just can't make it. Please keep in touch with our updates and photos of the event. We know you are with us in spirit!
We are well aware of many of you who really want to come, but just can't make it. Please keep in touch with our updates and photos of the event. We know you are with us in spirit!
Friday, March 7, 2014
DOVER REUNION NEWS FLASH!!
Here is some very exciting news about the upcoming Reunion in Dover on May 9/10, 2014:
GEORGE MAIORANA IS COMING AND BRINGING HIS JUST COMPLETED GIANT 133 MODEL!!!
For those of you who have been following our blog the last couple of years, you know about George's major project to build this giant model…he's been working on it 5 years…..AND FOLKS, IT'S BUILT TO FLY with electric motors!!! IT IS AMAZING!!! Now I need to quickly add, he may not be able to fly it at our Reunion for lots of reasons, but he will be able to taxi it around the Museum area.
Here's the short story:
George lives in, and has spent most of his life in SE Michigan, born in 1942, joined the USAF in January, 1962; spent a year at Lackland in electronics training to become a Crypto System Equipment Repairman; then on operational assignment at Fuchu Air Station in Japan until separation in January, 1966 at Travis AFB; then 27 year career at Xerox back in Michigan until early retirement to raise a family of five kids, now with five grandkids, and became a "full time" airplane modeler.
I suggest you Google "George Maiorana" for lots of info and pictures of his modeling competition.
Here's his own story of his FLYING C-133 project that has now become 62008:
"Being stuck at home (in 2009) I was itching to do something different (i.e. not modeled before) and the only documentation I had for a model was the C-133. The C-133 met all my criteria for a model project. A few days spent on sizing it and I was sure it would fly (the determining factor was if the nacelle size to house the motors didn't make the model too large) . So I began. Time is cheap, as are the dollars for materials."
C-133 Model scale: 1:16.5 length 9.45' wingspan 10.78' tail height 2.92' prop diameter 13.09”
He has already provided us with dozens of photos taken during the build process that have been posted on our blog. Now we have a CD with all of them that we'll be showing at the Reunion. Here's a small sample:
The size of this masterpiece, and detail are truly phenomenal! What a privilege for us to have George bring it to our Reunion.
Don't miss this!! Get your Registration forms (see attached) and checks in the mail………NOW!
Dick Hanson
GEORGE MAIORANA IS COMING AND BRINGING HIS JUST COMPLETED GIANT 133 MODEL!!!
For those of you who have been following our blog the last couple of years, you know about George's major project to build this giant model…he's been working on it 5 years…..AND FOLKS, IT'S BUILT TO FLY with electric motors!!! IT IS AMAZING!!! Now I need to quickly add, he may not be able to fly it at our Reunion for lots of reasons, but he will be able to taxi it around the Museum area.
Here's the short story:
George lives in, and has spent most of his life in SE Michigan, born in 1942, joined the USAF in January, 1962; spent a year at Lackland in electronics training to become a Crypto System Equipment Repairman; then on operational assignment at Fuchu Air Station in Japan until separation in January, 1966 at Travis AFB; then 27 year career at Xerox back in Michigan until early retirement to raise a family of five kids, now with five grandkids, and became a "full time" airplane modeler.
I suggest you Google "George Maiorana" for lots of info and pictures of his modeling competition.
Here's his own story of his FLYING C-133 project that has now become 62008:
"Being stuck at home (in 2009) I was itching to do something different (i.e. not modeled before) and the only documentation I had for a model was the C-133. The C-133 met all my criteria for a model project. A few days spent on sizing it and I was sure it would fly (the determining factor was if the nacelle size to house the motors didn't make the model too large) . So I began. Time is cheap, as are the dollars for materials."
C-133 Model scale: 1:16.5 length 9.45' wingspan 10.78' tail height 2.92' prop diameter 13.09”
He has already provided us with dozens of photos taken during the build process that have been posted on our blog. Now we have a CD with all of them that we'll be showing at the Reunion. Here's a small sample:
The size of this masterpiece, and detail are truly phenomenal! What a privilege for us to have George bring it to our Reunion.
Don't miss this!! Get your Registration forms (see attached) and checks in the mail………NOW!
Dick Hanson
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Another Giant 133 Model Update
Hi,
Spent the last week making my documentation folder. I had to go back and make some changes to "bits and pieces " of the model. Got her back together this morning and took some pictures with the flaps down.
Enjoy,
George
Cal Taylor Comment: Realistic even to the black water stain on the fuselage.
Spent the last week making my documentation folder. I had to go back and make some changes to "bits and pieces " of the model. Got her back together this morning and took some pictures with the flaps down.
Enjoy,
George
Cal Taylor Comment: Realistic even to the black water stain on the fuselage.
Monday, February 3, 2014
Giant 133 Model Update
Hi guys,
Well, I'm just about done. Got the vortex generators, stall strip, and a few other "bits and pieces" installed. The airframe is complete and now it's time to build some flying props, install the batteries and balance her.
Attached are some pictures of the model and of the prototype which is located in Dayton.
Cheers,
George.
Well, I'm just about done. Got the vortex generators, stall strip, and a few other "bits and pieces" installed. The airframe is complete and now it's time to build some flying props, install the batteries and balance her.
Attached are some pictures of the model and of the prototype which is located in Dayton.
Cheers,
George.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
2014 Dover Reunion Details, Post #2
Since sending out the first e-blast four days ago, I've had replies from 24 of you, 21 Yes for 35 people, 3 can't make it. Great start!
Just received Dover Downs Hotel info from Hank Baker:
Call Dover Downs 866-473-7378, Booking code GC13314. Friday cost $169, SAT.$189, SUN,#139.00 PLUS tax !! Cut Off date 4/21. Info ref. Robin Price C-133 Reunion.
KEEP THOSE e-MAIL REPLIES COMING! AND REGISTRATIONS WITH CHECKS!
Just received Dover Downs Hotel info from Hank Baker:
Call Dover Downs 866-473-7378, Booking code GC13314. Friday cost $169, SAT.$189, SUN,#139.00 PLUS tax !! Cut Off date 4/21. Info ref. Robin Price C-133 Reunion.
KEEP THOSE e-MAIL REPLIES COMING! AND REGISTRATIONS WITH CHECKS!
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
2014 Dover Reunion Details, Post #1
ATTEN—HUTT!! Last Call for Reunion Hall!
This is the LAST Last Hurrah!
The Diamond Anniversary of our Beloved 133!!
Are you still there??? Come Join Us in Dover in May. Please send an e-mail that you will come! To: rehanson342@me.com
Friday, May 9th: Crew mingling at the AMC Museum, with buffet ribs & chicken, cole slow and BEER & WINE PROVIDED!
Saturday, May 10th: Crew mingling at the Museum in the afternoon; Reception at Hospitality Suite at Dover Downs, followed by a 3 course Banquet & Program, Cash Bar.
BARGAIN PRICE OF $50 PER PERSON, FOR BOTH DAYS!!!
Ask for Cargomaster Association Group Room Rates at Dover Downs while they last!
Here's the Registration Form (make your own with the same info), and send with a check to one of the addresses shown below NO LATER THAN MARCH 15th!
Let me know any questions by e-mail reply at rehanson342@me.com !
Hope to see you in Dover in May!
C-133 Reunion Registration
At AMC Museum and Dover Downs
May 9 and 10, 2014
NAME____________________________ GUEST NAME __________________
ADDRESS __________________________________________________________
PHONE _____________________ E-MAIL _______________________________
Price of Friday Social AND Saturday Banquet: $50.00 per person
Does not include accommodations!
SQ/UNIT __________________________________________________________
I/WE WILL ____ WILL NOT ____ ATTEND THE REUNION IN MAY, 2010
NUMBER ATTENDING: ____ FRIDAY SOCIAL
____ SATURDAY BANQUET
PLEASE Mail Registration with check ASAP!
NO LATER THAN MARCH 15th!
Hangar Social at AMC Museum Friday; and Banquet Saturday at Dover Downs
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: Cargomaster Association
MAIL TO:
HANK BAKER
8457 WESTVILLE ROAD
CAMDEN, DE 19934
OR
DICK HANSON
10849 FALLING WATER LANE, UNIT C
WOODBURY, MN 55129
This is the LAST Last Hurrah!
The Diamond Anniversary of our Beloved 133!!
Are you still there??? Come Join Us in Dover in May. Please send an e-mail that you will come! To: rehanson342@me.com
Friday, May 9th: Crew mingling at the AMC Museum, with buffet ribs & chicken, cole slow and BEER & WINE PROVIDED!
Saturday, May 10th: Crew mingling at the Museum in the afternoon; Reception at Hospitality Suite at Dover Downs, followed by a 3 course Banquet & Program, Cash Bar.
BARGAIN PRICE OF $50 PER PERSON, FOR BOTH DAYS!!!
Ask for Cargomaster Association Group Room Rates at Dover Downs while they last!
Here's the Registration Form (make your own with the same info), and send with a check to one of the addresses shown below NO LATER THAN MARCH 15th!
Let me know any questions by e-mail reply at rehanson342@me.com !
Hope to see you in Dover in May!
C-133 Reunion Registration
At AMC Museum and Dover Downs
May 9 and 10, 2014
NAME____________________________ GUEST NAME __________________
ADDRESS __________________________________________________________
PHONE _____________________ E-MAIL _______________________________
Price of Friday Social AND Saturday Banquet: $50.00 per person
Does not include accommodations!
SQ/UNIT __________________________________________________________
I/WE WILL ____ WILL NOT ____ ATTEND THE REUNION IN MAY, 2010
NUMBER ATTENDING: ____ FRIDAY SOCIAL
____ SATURDAY BANQUET
PLEASE Mail Registration with check ASAP!
NO LATER THAN MARCH 15th!
Hangar Social at AMC Museum Friday; and Banquet Saturday at Dover Downs
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: Cargomaster Association
MAIL TO:
HANK BAKER
8457 WESTVILLE ROAD
CAMDEN, DE 19934
OR
DICK HANSON
10849 FALLING WATER LANE, UNIT C
WOODBURY, MN 55129
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Aviation Axioms
Thanks to Ted Feindt (navigator, 1st ATS, early 60s):
No matter what else happens, fly the airplane. Forget all that stuff about thrust and drag, lift and gravity.
It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn' em back off.
A check ride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has ever collided with the sky!
Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.
Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
"Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger; if you pull the stick back, they get smaller. (Unless you keep pulling the stick back-then they get bigger again.)
Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first!
Everyone already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great' landing. It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.
The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
IFR: I Follow Roads.
A Marine knows he’s landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.
Those who hoot with the owls by night should not fly with the eagles by day.
A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down—all of them trying to become random in motion.
Helicopters can't really fly—they're just so ugly that the earth immediately repels them.
Pilots believe in clean living. They never drink from a dirty glass.
Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above you. Runway behind you. Fuel in the truck. Half a second ago. Approach plates in the car. The airspeed you don't have.
Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.
A good simulator check ride is like successful surgery on a corpse.
Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what it thinks about dogs.
An airplane may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.
Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwind.
A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse.
A pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
The last thing an Air Force pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.
Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.
Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Be wary when someone says, "Let me show you something"
If an airplane crashes and doesn't catch fire it is usually out of gas.
Flying at night improves your hearing, that explains night noises.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.
You can't rewrite the laws of aerodynamics.
There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold, pilots!
The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat.
Flying is the perfect vocation for a man who wants to feel like a boy, but not for one who still is.
If something doesn't seem right it probably isn't.
The difference between a fighter pilot and a pig? A pig doesn't sit at a bar until 0300 waiting to pick up a fighter pilot.
It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn' em back off.
A check ride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
Speed is life, altitude is life insurance. No one has ever collided with the sky!
Always remember you fly an airplane with your head, not your hands.
Never let an airplane take you somewhere your brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
"Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.
If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger; if you pull the stick back, they get smaller. (Unless you keep pulling the stick back-then they get bigger again.)
Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.
The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man. Landing is the first!
Everyone already knows the definition of a 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away. But very few know the definition of a 'great' landing. It's one after which you can use the airplane another time.
The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
IFR: I Follow Roads.
A Marine knows he’s landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.
Those who hoot with the owls by night should not fly with the eagles by day.
A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down—all of them trying to become random in motion.
Helicopters can't really fly—they're just so ugly that the earth immediately repels them.
Pilots believe in clean living. They never drink from a dirty glass.
Things which do you no good in aviation: Altitude above you. Runway behind you. Fuel in the truck. Half a second ago. Approach plates in the car. The airspeed you don't have.
Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.
A good simulator check ride is like successful surgery on a corpse.
Asking what a pilot thinks about the FAA is like asking a tree what it thinks about dogs.
An airplane may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.
Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwind.
A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse.
A pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
The last thing an Air Force pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.
Try to keep the number of your landings equal to the number of your takeoffs.
Takeoffs are optional. Landings are mandatory.
You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
Be wary when someone says, "Let me show you something"
If an airplane crashes and doesn't catch fire it is usually out of gas.
Flying at night improves your hearing, that explains night noises.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.
You can't rewrite the laws of aerodynamics.
There are old pilots, and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold, pilots!
The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat.
Flying is the perfect vocation for a man who wants to feel like a boy, but not for one who still is.
If something doesn't seem right it probably isn't.
The difference between a fighter pilot and a pig? A pig doesn't sit at a bar until 0300 waiting to pick up a fighter pilot.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Giant 133 Model Update
Hi Guys,
Hope all is well with you and your families. Have a great 2014.
I've been working on a lot of little "bits and pieces" to the plane. The rudder, elevator, ailerons, and flaps are finalized and connected to their servos. I have gone over the entire airframe and "dirtied" up the aluminum. The pictures show the wing and flap fairings final install. Still no vortex generators-soon.
All well here. Just touching bases with an update.
Cheers,
George
Hope all is well with you and your families. Have a great 2014.
I've been working on a lot of little "bits and pieces" to the plane. The rudder, elevator, ailerons, and flaps are finalized and connected to their servos. I have gone over the entire airframe and "dirtied" up the aluminum. The pictures show the wing and flap fairings final install. Still no vortex generators-soon.
All well here. Just touching bases with an update.
Cheers,
George
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