Exile in Portales

Well, not much that would be of general interest, anyhoo.  That said, there was this from the Usual USAF Source : US Air Force crews fe...

Coz we're all about "the rest of the story" (with apologies to Paul Harvey).  Here's Virgil (the first part of the story ...

Via Digg , where they say: WARNING: THERE ARE A LOT Can You Spot Every Reference In This Brilliant Animation? The music video ...

Air Force Magazine has an interesting article on one of General Eisenhower's personal transport aircraft during WW II (well, intere...

That would be this, from the Usual USAF Source : Jurassic Raptors Air Frame: F-22 Raptors fly in formatio...

This lil blurb from the Usual USAF Source caused a twinge of something like regret and/or sadness in me this morning: One-Ring Circus ...

And now airmen can get a medal for sitting in a hole... Criteria for New Medal Announced The Air Force last week announced the criter...

There was a lot of interesting stuff in the overnight mail today.  Herewith three of those items... First... a political 'toon. ...

A few items from the Usual USAF Source about the current unpleasantness over Iraq and Syria... Airpower in Action —Amy McCullough ...

From the Usual USAF Source ... An F-22 refuels before strike operations against ISIS in Syria, Sept. 26, 2014. Air Force photo by Tech....

From the Usual USAF Source ... Here's a link to the photo above.  And then there's this: Apropos o' not much... those...

Yet another brick in the wall we call "Not Your Father's Air Force:" That's a screen shot of a blurb in AFA's Da...

From the Usual USAF Source ... Air Frame: F-16 Fighting Falcons Thunderbirds perform a five-ship formation after refueling from a 92...

From the Usual USAF Source ... Edwards to Dismantle Icon of the Manned Space Program Technicians at NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Re...

From the Usual USAF Source... SrA. Shabree N. Heasell, a geospatial intelligence analyst with the 603rd Air and Space Operations Center...

From the Usual USAF Source: C-130 Marks 60 Years in Production Archived photo of the YC-130 Hercules during its ferry flight from Bur...

First, there's this from the Usual USAF Source : Air Frame: A KC-135 Stratotanker taxis through the wash rack, also known as a bir...

The problem... Part of the solution... Air Frame: Capt. Andrew Glowa, lead, and Capt. William Piepenbring, both with the 74th Fi...

From the Usual USAF Source : Last Crew Member of the B-29 Enola Gay Has Died Enola Gay crewmembers (l-r) Maj. Theodore Van Kirk, Col...

Anyone who's ever had to deal with dumb-ass mission statements will appreciate this:   I think Al hit ALL the buzzwords.  Apropos o...