Thank you!
Credit is due to the Tri-State Warbird Museum for digitising and uploading that document.
www.tri-statewarbirdmuseum.org
They have uploaded quite interesting things at the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/tris...
Thank you!
Credit is due to the Tri-State Warbird Museum for digitising and uploading that document.
www.tri-statewarbirdmuseum.org
They have uploaded quite interesting things at the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/tris...
www.linkedin.com/posts/draken...
04.03.2026 14:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I can relate to that.
04.03.2026 14:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Indeed. The first AEW 3 flight was in 1980. The R1 led a very secretive life during the Cold War.
web.archive.org/web/20120502...
There is an ALT text describing that. I think AH was interested in which particular radar was in that photo.
04.03.2026 10:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🗺️ maps.app.goo.gl/JgivwF1jDrnU...
04.03.2026 10:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great anecdote.
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04.03.2026 10:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some interesting DEW Line photos from The Canadian Centre for Architecture:
🔗 www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/...
AN/FPS-23
🔗 www.radartutorial.eu/19.kartei/11...
AN/FPS-19
🔗 www.radartutorial.eu/19.kartei/11...
🔗📷 web.archive.org/web/20160303...
AN/FRC-45 tropospheric scatter communications system simplified block diagram.
🔗📷 apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/A...
Minimally manned DEW Line Intermediate radar station with AN/FPS-23 gap filler bistatic "Fluttar" transmitters on a 200ft tower.
"Aerial view of DEW Line radar station FOX-C, Ekalugad Fiord, Nunavut, Canada" Circa 1960
📷📑 www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/de...
AN/FPS-19 L-band early warning radar.
AN/FRC-45 (dual diversity reception: one transmitter, one exciter, two receivers) lateral (site-to-site) communication dishes.
"View of DEW Line radar station BAR-3, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada" Circa 1960
📷📑 www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/de...
Major components:
AN/FPS-23 UHF-band gap filler bistatic "Fluttar" (flutter radar). Each set had a separate transmitter (AN/FPT-4) and receiver (AN/FPR-2), typically located about fifty miles apart. It used the Doppler effect to detect aircraft trying to pass between the transmitter and receiver.
🧵 A typical DEW Line Auxiliary radar station.
"View of DEW Line radar station BAR-3, Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, Canada" Circa 1960
📷📑 www.cca.qc.ca/en/search/de...
Lockheed RC-121D
Standard Aircraft Characteristics
🔗📷 archive.org/details/CCM-...
My new article is up: thespacereview.com/article/5169/1
03.03.2026 13:21 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"A KC-135 Stratotanker from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash. refuels an F-22A Raptor from the 49th Fighter Wing from Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., in midair during a Combat Hammer mission during a two-week large-scale evaluation. …"
📷📑 www.acc.af.mil/News/Photos/...
What is your opinion of pallets optimised for ISO containers?
www.inka-paletten.com/en/pallets-f...
1st Cavalry Division soldiers posing with T148E1 (3-round magazine, semi-automatic) and M79 (single-shot, break-action) grenade launchers at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1965.
📷 www.alamy.com/these-tough-...
A USAF 20th FW F-16 carrying a PDU-5 (Product Dispenser Unit) bomb during the 2011 NATO Operation Unified Protector.
📷 www.shaw.af.mil/News/Photos/...
Photos from 2017 PDU-5/B leaflet bomb air drops designed to test, among other things, safe separation from the external Heavy Stores Adapter Beam of the B-52 Stratofortress. Each such bomb carries about 60,000 leaflets.
🔗📷 www.af.mil/News/Article...
Very accurate description, in some cases.
www.twz.com/28015/a-b-52...
Oldie (2021) but goodie.
"Behold The Naked Warplanes Of Tinker Air Force Base /
With the depot maintenance mission for a number of big jets, Tinker AFB offers rare glimpses of what these planes look like without their paint."
www.twz.com/43677/behold...
Apparently, L44000 penetration skis by Airglas Inc.
web.archive.org/web/20240327...
bsky.app/profile/mass...
26.02.2026 11:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Christie's M1928
25.02.2026 05:36 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Two members of the Women's Voluntary Service make camouflage netting by tying strips of material to a large net, suspended from the ceiling in an old school building in London, 1943.
IWM (D 17198), MoI Photo Division photographer
