Aircraft maintainers

0329 was my jet back in the day. Glad to see her still going strong.

 

Ever been to Afghanistan? Trust me, once you get there you won’t wonder why they picked up cannon anymore.

 

I've been there...I thought I got lost and drove into Mexico....Its a crappy base for sure.

 

I work at a small, county airport. There used to be this ratty old Piper Arrow parked on our ramp. The owner, Tom Crull, would fly it for a couple of hours once or twice a week. This went on for 20 years. He was as ratty looking and old as his airplane. Many of us didn't think he had a medical as he didn't get around very well. He was extraordinarily cheap and wouldn't spend any money on his aircraft unless absolutely necessary. After he passed and the airplane was sold, while preparing it for the new owners, his family told us that he was an ex U-2 pilot. Whoda thunk it.

24 Sep 59
Whilst conducting a test flight in Article 360 from Det C in Atsugi in Japan, Tom Crull encountered problems on a test flight and eventually ran out of fuel. With great skill Tom Crull managed to dead-stick the aircraft onto a small civilian airfield at Fujisawa, where it was promptly surrounded and photographed by curious Japanese civilians.
The damaged U-2C aircraft was shipped back to Lockheed in the USA for repairs. Article 360 was then returned to Detachment B at Adana in Turkey where it gained a reputation as a 'Hanger Queen'. For a variety of reasons
Article 360 ended up being flown by Gary Powers on Mission 4154, Operation Grand Slam, when he was shot down.

 

B1 Crew Chief checking in! stationed out at Dyess AFB in TX currently. I'm not flight line, but AR working on all the flight controls and rigging and jacking, etc. How do I get the USAF logo on my profile? Yall have to verify me somehow? https://imgur.com/WQbThF6 https://imgur.com/2NXhLMw

 

Nah, if I needed to id just message Ressler. But nobody really cares here, we all "love" aircraft.

 

“Love”

 

Has to be quoted. I think the amount of cussing and hate I have towards some planes has me in both camps.

 

welcome...I was a crew chief on them also...interesting patch. Do you have the small ones or is that just a display?

 

I wish it was our patch it’s our Metallica sign and we have it in our morale shirts ! We wear our 7th EMS patches on our OCPs ! I’d love to make that a patch though I live our logo

 

I still like the "Mors Ab Alto"

 

Any old 522 fireball guys on here with a patch they would be willing to part ways with?

 

this?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/USAF-Fightin-522nd-Fireball-Squadron-Patch/163665850019

Were you at Cannon? I would have hated to be stationed there....

 

I still would hate to be there. Any base in NM needs to be BRAC'd

 

Place is a dump...Last and only time I was there the place looked like it was abandoned yet people still were there...LOL

 

I went to Holloman for a Test and Eval school. Was a nice looking base but it still should be eliminated. We could easily keep the test ranges out there but it should be gone. Couldn't imagine Cannon.

 

I never went to Holloman but New Mexico in General is crappy so in typical Air force fashion. Put a base or two there..

 

That’s exactly what I was looking for, I don’t know why I couldn’t find it! And yes I spent my entire enlistment at Cannon. I don’t have many good things to say about the location.

 

Air Force F35 maintainer here

 

Ive found a lot of old patches on Ebay. I need to collect the squadrons I was in, and make myself a shadow board but I'll get around to it at some point. It was funny I found a few patches at a gunshow In Spokane from one of my squadrons I was stationed at in Texas! It was really weird seeing them this far north.