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Check his signature ..... I think there's a slick in that HUGE stack of fords he ownes. :mrgreen:


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Mr.Hunter,
Thanks,...always read the small print.
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Mr. Jones wrote:Mr.Adrian,
Really enjoy your posts just wanted to say thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Now for a really dumb question, do you even own a slick? I've never seen a picture...
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I do! Inherited my fathers '66 F-250. Just ordered a new gas tank and rims to get it mobile again to get to the paint booth. If I'm ever home for more than 2 days in the last 3 months, it might get done!

March 2005.

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Last year I finally was able to get up to PA where it was being held hostage by a guy that was "workin' on it".

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Hope to be rollin' around in it this summer. If I'm not deployed again...

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Container forklift heavy sombich at 120k lbs. One of the transport tires went flat over the flight and came off the bead so had to plywood it off so it wouldn't tear up my floor.

I am loving this gopro, but I just need a back screen for it now as I've missed a few other cool downloads not having it aimed correctly.

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2-375 - Colorado Springs. Where is the air up here?

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2-376 - Was out of breath hossin’ the case of oil and ladder from motor to motor.

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2-377 - Winglets win wars.

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2-378 - Two shiny trucks to top off for the days ride in the mountains.

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2-379 - Yee ole knowledge passing on to three young pups. “Back in my day...”

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2-380 - So why are we here? The Colorado Army National Guard playin’ weekend warriors wanted to learn how to load their toys on the C17.

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2-381 - It’s a US Army Guard Rubik’s cube.

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2-382 - 3 UH-60 Black Hawks will fit if you squeeze ‘em in tight.

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2-383 - Heave ho.

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2-384 - Amazon prime 2day shipping anywhere in the world.

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3-043 - Colorado Springs is beautiful to look at, but hard as hell to breath there.

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3-044 - That isn’t an airborne flight level. Radar altimeter at 0 sittin’ on the runway.

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3-045 - Tap the Rockies.

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3-046 - Time to angle and dangle around the peaks on a low level.

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3-047 - Up close and personal with the Rocky Mountains at 500 feet above the ground.

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3-048 - Needs a big ass stump grinder.

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3-049 - Angle the dangle around the pointy bits of the mountains.

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3-050/051 - Up close and personal with the Rocky Mountains at 500 feet above the ground.

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3-052 - Low ridge crossing.

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053 - Up close and personal with the Rocky Mountains at 500 feet above the ground.

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054 - Checkin’ out the cattle.

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055 - Comin’ in low and fryin’ chickens in the barnyard.

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056 - I think this is the lake Coors Lite comes from.

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057 - Source of my favorite Colorado Kool-Aid.

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058 - Not sure we’ll fit down that one.

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059 - Ready to dive on in this C-17 sized trench.

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060 - Next ridge crossing.

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061 - More pointy bits to avoid.

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062 - Always wild to see the terrain higher than the wingtips.

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063 - Wonder what that dude in the truck was thinking with us overhead.

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064 - Pretty like a picture.

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065 - Hang a right at the big C

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066 - Forecast of mostly sunny with a random C-17 shaped cloud haulin’ ass.

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067 - Next ridge crossing, hold on tight.

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068 - Pretty like a picture.

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069 - Reach out and touch ‘em.

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070 - Highest ridge crossing yet. Still got snow on ‘er. If you think turbo lag driving in the hills is bad, at this altitude, the motors from idle to the max EPR limit takes 40 seconds to spool. Slightly unnerving when you are terrain following two seconds from being a smoking hole in the ground. Why our pilots are the best trained in the world.

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071 - Watch out for skiing.

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072 - Could prolly high five a skier if the door was open and ramp down.

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073 - Kick ass ride.

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074 - Spinnin' them four big fans fast on the redline to keep us away from that raggedy edge of disaster.

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075 - After a day of a non-stop roller coaster, back on pavement is a good feeling.

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076 - Next morning, bright and early to do the same low level track again, we shared a moment with a nifty as fuck vintage Navy AT6.

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077 - Didn’t get a chance to catch the call sign since we were still tuned to the ground freq, and not on tower yet, but I was lucky to see it.

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078 - Angle the dangle to shit it and get it.

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079 - Diving into the next trench to follow down low

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080 - As much fun as the ride is, I’d like to be sitting on those rocks once to watch us hustle muscle by.

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081 - “Obstacle left…”

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082 - “Acknowledged. Right turn…”

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083 “That’s a biggin’!”

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084 Final ridge crossing nailed at exactly 500 ft on target with pitch and power.

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085 Punched this day in the mouth! Let’s park this rig, and find a bar.

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Next day headed home no problems.
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Sorry things got a little out of order on the new way I'm sorting, editing, captioning, and posting pictures so that way it makes it easier for the different blogs I run to make me want to post this junk more often. Back in Colorado...
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Trip 089, Spring 2015, Germany

086 - We had both blocked about the same time. Fred made a left out of parking and bumbled down the front of the main ramp. We banged a right out of parking and U turned by fuel cell. Hustled down the back of the main ramp to meet up with a, “Jumbo 596 give way to departing C-17 traffic.” Slow to the show fat Freddy! Heh heh heh…

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087 Hey! Who stole the runway?

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088 Dover AFB’s AMC museum.

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089 They put the broke C-5A model fat Freddy in the corner.

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090 Navy boat was haulin’ ass through the Bay Bridge Tunnel.

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091 Top floor high life.

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092 Mercedes Benz HQ.

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093 Never stayed in a place with this décor. It is like Ikea meets plastic.

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094 Nice view and great to go somewhere other than Ramstein in Germany.

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095 I don’t know what to say about what goes on in this bathroom.

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096 Normally 74 is a rock solid bird, but with some fuel transfer pump shenanigans, she gave us a delay. I figured out a work around procedure, and we were on our way.

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097 Sunday morning sermon brought to you by big birds on short final.

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098 Programming the TomTom GPS for the left turn at Berlin.

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099 Splash of gas and lets haul some ass!

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100 Can’t look this good and work hard too.

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cool ass job !! Thank you for keeping our birds flying high and proud 8)

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Trip 098, Spring 2015, Delaware

Just a quick local one day haul from Delaware to Virginia and back to northern DE. Didn’t even pull the gear up from New Castle airport back to Dover.

101 Loadmaster hero shot.

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102 Loadmaster hero shot. Because of construction, we had to back out of parking.

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103 Lets parallel park this thing, “Come on back!”

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104 Pilot hero shot.

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105 “I ain’t scared being this close to that unit there. I grew up next to Three Mile Island.”

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106 Traffic low…

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107 Always an interesting stubby runway to land at.

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108 Overrun is lacking in the length department. “That’s what she said.”

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109 Things started to unravel with a bad APU. Had the ground guys bring me out a power cart, and I also asked for a huffer cart to keep the avionics cool while we load, and eventually start the engines when we need to leave. Ground guy then asks, “What’s a huffer cart?” My Air Force to Navy language barrier was biting me again. While trying to figure out what the guys here use to air start their helicopters, the power cart starts making angry noises. Looked to see a thrown rod right out the side of the block.

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110 Had to squat down a bit to see under the jet for when the next power cart would be pulling up.

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111 Turns out the Navy doesn’t use big huffer carts. They have, “Lil smokies.” Hooked one up and it could barely run one air conditioning pack at 7psi. Did the rare double hookup when they brought out another and together, they could muster 18psi. Recommended pressure is 20psi to even try to start one engine, but we’ll give it a try since we can do no better. Pulled off the slowest engine start I’ve ever seen on the timing limits, as well as hot as the desert on the flight deck with no air conditioning during the start. Oh well, good enough for government work. Crossbleed start the other three, and lets get out of here.

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112 Ole clunker hand me down McChord jet strikes again makin’ me work harder than the nice jet we gave away ever would have.

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113 Beautiful DelMarValous day back in the air!

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114 Hey Brandon and Jason, I can see your house from here.

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115 Big city of Middletown DE.

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1924/03/02 – 2015/06-29

“The eternal sky, temptress to all airmen, joined with fate, guardian of the lucky and betrayer of the less favored.” My grandfather was a Naval Aviator and by all accounts, one of the lucky ones indeed. His tails of military aviation captivated me from as young as I can remember. The summer before first grade I recall riding in the jump seat of his extended cab Ford not being able to see outside, but fully believing we were in fact flying a foot off the ground because he said we were. As I was older and more understanding his stories showed more of the horrors of war. Ronald Regan had said, “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” After the attacks of September 11th 2001, I had asked him if this was the same as December 7th 1941. He said it was, and that we needed to avenge without mercy. To this day my own drive to serve in the United States Air Force comes from that very exchange on a Tuesday evening. A torch was passed of Vargo men going to war. Now my own tails of flying in combat as I told him on my treasured trips to Easton PA and the Fleas Club caused instant smiles of the Old Man and his comment that, “You and me, we’ve become the same.” I can only hope that will never change.

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Bougainville Island in the North Solomon Islands during a short little six year TDY that makes my deployments look like a trip to the park. I never did ask what he was trying to rig up with that rope. The man never did buy a ratchet strap in his life. All things tied down in his truck with random ropes.

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I had missed my grandmothers funeral when I was in Kuwait on a flying stage, but the trips just came together between two Iraq missions at the beginning of the month for me to be home, and head up to PA.

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A good service that my uncle and I were able to get the VFW for a M1 21 gun salute, and two sailors from the Lakehurst honor guard for a flag folding.

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Trip 099, Spring 2015, Bahrain

116 “Reach 475 heavy, hold short runway 14 for departing traffic.”

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117 “Moose 780 off the deck!”

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118 Revvin up your engine, listen to her howl and go. Metal under tension, begging you to touch and go.

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119 Positive rate. Gear up. After takeoff climb checklist.

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120 Bye friends!

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121 “Reach 475, caution, wake turbulence. Clear for takeoff.” PUNCH IT!

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122 Sunset on the spirit of the constitution.

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123 Thrust reverser cascade shown on both the fan and core.

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124 Thrust reverser blocker doors deployed for both the fan and core airstreams.

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125 Hey look down there where they make wind on the wind factories.

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126 Watch out fer Mt. Etna, she’s a biggin’.

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127 Elephant Square tourist hero shot.

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128 Authentic Italian pasta made by a dude that said, “Bipity boopy.”

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129 Postcard view of a Mediterranean coastal city.

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130 Next day on the jet I noticed my big kid juice box sprung a leak. Fixed it crew chief style. If the duct tape didn’t hold, I was ready to bust out the speed tape.

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131 Low buck Mediterranean fishin’ in 120 degree heat.

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132 “Hey look at that guy out there doin’ doughnuts in the water!”

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133 Now that is an appropriate sized fuel truck to feed my big ole girl. Two hoses for big time double pumpin’, and let ‘er eat!

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134 Might even have enough to get part the way home!

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135 My 120 degree happy face.

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