[MRCA] Happy belated Birthday!!

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

Does anyone remember what happened on February 5, 1958?
Seems there was a midair collision with a B-47 and F-86,  the B-47 
payload, a MK-15, is still in Wassaw sound.
An interesting story as yo how it happened.

Glenn

On 9/19/2020 10:03 AM, Rich Arland wrote:
> You got that right.  JDAMS weren't around when I was in (1967-87) but 
> PAVETAC certainly was!!! Just ask Quadifi!!! Operation Eldorado Canyon 
> was not a rousing success but it certainly proved the guided munitions 
> had a future in the air war. Gotta love the F-111F (learned to fly one 
> at RAF Lakenheath in the early 80s thanks to a good friend on 494TFS 
> Stan Eval....had to show time on the 111F sim....had more than a few 
> hours logged on a $40 million video game!!)
>
> *Vy 73*
> ​​
> *Rich K7SZ*
> _
> _
> "​*The vast majority of the world's problems can be overcome with the 
> proper application of high explosives!"**​*
> *(SSgt Jon Nelson, 5th Special Forces Group, Airborne)
> *
> *
> *
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mrca-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on 
> behalf of KE4DRJ <ke4drj at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 19, 2020 12:59 AM
> *To:* mrca at mailman.qth.net <mrca at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [MRCA] Happy belated Birthday!!
> I missed it to. Happy birthday to the USAF. I was an f-16 crew chief, 
> good times. ( solved a lot of problems with  a 2000lb jdam).
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 00:49 Rich Arland <k7sz at live.com 
> <mailto:k7sz at live.com>> wrote:
>
>     Don't know HOW I missed this one!!!
>
>     18 Sept 1947 the US AIr Force was born!!
>
>     Happy Birthday to all the USAF members, active, retired and veterans!
>
>     Nothin' like dumpin' some iron on the bad guys from 35 thousand
>     feet!!!
>
>     *Vy 73*
>     ​​
>     *Rich K7SZ*
>     *
>     *
>     *MSgt USAF (ret)
>     *
>     _
>     _
>     "​*The vast majority of the world's problems can be overcome with
>     the proper application of high explosives!"**​*
>     *(SSgt Jon Nelson, 5th Special Forces Group, Airborne)
>     *
>     *
>     *
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Glenn Little                ARRL Technical Specialist   QCWA  LM 28417
Amateur Callsign:  WB4UIV            wb4uiv at arrl.net    AMSAT LM 2178
QTH:  Goose Creek, SC USA (EM92xx)  USSVI LM   NRA LM   SBE ARRL TAPR
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of the Amateur that holds the license"

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