The FReeper Foxhole Studies "Big Fella" the XC-99 - June 12th, 2004

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[snippy_about_it]

XC-99 begins piece-by-piece trip to Air Force Museum


LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- The XC-99 sits on the ramp at the Kelly Annex to Lackland after Phase 1 of the dismantling process removed engines, doors, access panels, parts of the wings and tail section. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Bruce R. Hill Jr.)

4/22/2004 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Several parts of a historic XC-99 aircraft located at the Kelly Annex to Lackland were hauled to the Air Force Museum near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, recently.

A C-5 Galaxy from the 433rd Airlift Wing here hauled the initial load of the three-phase dismantling project.

Disassembling began Jan. 20 by a company with a history of disassembling and reassembling large aircraft.

“The aircraft dictates when certain parts will be dismantled, so some parts may or may not be removed at given times during the process,” said Ben Nattrass, owner and operator of Worldwide Aircraft Recovery of Bellevue, Neb. “Each part has to be removed sequentially as it had been built, so we have to discover how to take the plane apart as we go.

“We’ve had a lot of outside interest, because this is a historic aircraft,” he said.

In the beginning, Army Air Forces officials wanted to develop an aircraft in the early part of World War II that would provide global airlift support beyond the scope of the existing B-36 bomber. It was not until after the war that the XC-99 was produced for its first flight, which took place Nov. 24, 1947.

Its first cargo run was into then-Kelly AFB on July 14, 1950, where most of the XC-99 flights took place.

The awkward-looking aircraft with rear-mounted props, an exception to conventional design, logged more than 7,400 hours of flying time and moved more than 60 million pounds of cargo.



The XC-99 made its final voyage March 19, 1957, and currently sits in an open area of the Kelly Annex until it is completely dismantled and relocated to its new home in Ohio. It is expected to undergo a detailed restoration process before being displayed in the Air Force Museum.

by 1st Lt. Bruce R. Hill Jr.
433rd Airlift Wing Public Affairs

Museum move


LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- Airmen from the 433rd Airlift Wing here load XC-99 engines onto a C-5 Galaxy before taking them to the Air Force Museum near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Bruce R. Hill Jr.)


LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- The XC-99 sits on the ramp at the Kelly Annex to Lackland after Phase 1 of the dismantling process removed engines, doors, access panels, parts of the wings and tail section. (U.S. Air Force photo by 1st Lt. Bruce R. Hill Jr.)

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Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:
www.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?storyID=123007543
www.afa.org/magazine/feb2004

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The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul

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[SAMWolf]

Interesting aircraft. Back when they were still trying the "pusher philosophy"

XC-99 in flight with a B-36

Take-off

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the pics. It's been a long day 'eh? Good night Sam. Tomorrow, the ships!

[SAMWolf]

Good Night, Snippy. I say we try for the USS Lake Erie. :-)

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Snippy.

[E.G.C.]

Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Foxhole.

[alfa6]

Another cool thread on an obscure aircraft, along similar line were the Boeing XB-15 and Douglas XB-19. (I think I recall those correctly)

Good Morning Bump to all, off to get some siding done before it rains again.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on June 12:
1519 Cosmos de Medici art patron (Accademia del Disegno)
1771 Patrick Gass Falling Springs PA, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1819 Charles Kingsley England, clergyman/novelist (Westward Ho!)
1829 Johanna Spyri Switzerland, writer (Heidi)
1851 Oliver Joseph Lodge England, early radio pioneer
1885 Werner Josten Elberfeld Germany, composer (Jungle)
1897 Alexandre Tansman Lodz Poland, composer (Dyptique)
1897 Anthony Eden Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)
1909 Archie Bleyer Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey)
1914 William Lundigan Syracuse NY, actor ("Men Into Space" (1959) TV Series, Col. Edward McCauley)
1915 David Rockefeller banker, international power broker
1916 Irwin Allen disaster-movie producer (Towering Inferno)
1917 Priscilla Lane US, actress (Arsenic & Old Lace)
1919 Uta Hagen Germany, actres (Boys From Brazil)/teaches acting

1924 George Herbert Walker Bush (R) 43rd VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (1989- )

1928 Vic Damone [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (the Street Where You Live)
1929 Anne Frank Holland, diarist/Nazi victim
1932 Jim Nabors Sylacauga Al, actor/singer (Gomer Pyle)
1941 Chick Corea Chelsea Mass, jazz musician (Delhpi I, Toy Dance)
1943 Marv Albert NYC, "Yes!" sportscaster (NBC-TV)
1943 Reg Presley rock vocalist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1962 Ally Sheedy, [Alexandria], NYC, actress (Wargames, Blue City)

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Deaths which occurred on June 12:
816 Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
1799 William Collins, English poet (Ode to Evening), dies
1946 Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese field marshal, dies
1957 James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1963 Medgar Evers NAACP official, murdered in Jackson, Miss at 37
1972 Saul David Alinsky radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1980 Milburn Stone actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
1983 Norma Shearer Academy Award-winner, dies at 80
2003 David Brinkley (newsman)

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 HOLLAND LAWRENCE T. ALHAMBRA CA.
[EJECTED KILLED IN SHOOTOUT]
1966 HARRIS GREGORY J. SYRACUSE NY.
[USG RECORDS SAY TOLEDO OH FAMILY SAYS NY]
1972 ANGUS WILLIAM K. GOLDEN CO.
[03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 WILEY RICHARD D. DECATUR IL.
["EXPLODE, NO PARA,BEEPERS"]



POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
816 St Leo III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (Am) captures Margaretta (Br)
1776 Virginia adopts Declaration of Rights
1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, BC
1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins
1838 Hopkins Observatory, dedicated in Williamstown, Mass
1838 Territory of Iowa organized
1839 1st baseball game played in America
1845 George Abernethy becomes 1st governor of Oregon Country
1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky
1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1867 Austro-Hungarian Empire forms
1880 1st baseball perfect game-John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleve
1885 Roof collapse kills 30 at murder trial in France
1889 Single tornado kills 119, injures 146 (New Richmond Wisc)
1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam India. Shock waves felt over an area size of Europe. Negligible death toll
1898 Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to US control
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1913 "The Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1920 Farmer Labor Party organized (Chicago)
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC
1934 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines
1935 Chaco War ends between Bolivia & Paraguay [?]
1936 1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa)
1936 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa
1937 USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continued
1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown NY
1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Br Women's Amateur Golf Champ
1948 Eddie Arcaro becomes 1st jockey to win the triple crown twice
1952 420th kitten (record) born to cat named Dusty, Bonham, TX
1962 USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1964 South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1965 The Beatles are awarded the MBE
1967 Israel wins 6 day war
1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio (300 arrested)
1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967 USSR launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1971 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2216 Kerch
1971 Tricia Nixon & Edward F Cox marry at White House
1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for Pres Kennedy library
1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in NY Supreme Court to 25 yrs to life
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
1979 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
1981 Baseball players begin a 50 day strike, their 3rd strike
1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC (WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!)
1986 P W Botha declares South African national emergency
1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1990 Oakland A's Rickey Henderson becomes 2nd to steal 900 bases
1991 The Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines began erupting.
1992 In a letter to U.S. senators, Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin said the Soviet Union had shot down nine U.S. planes in the early 1950s and held 12 American survivors.
2000 50 years after the Korean War began, the leaders of North and South Korea met in Pyongyang for the first-ever series of talks.
2001 A federal court in New York sentenced Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali, a Saudi Arabian follower of Osama bin Laden, to life in prison without parole for his role in the deadly bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Finland : Helsinki Day (1550)
Phillipines : Independence Day (1898)
Turk & Cacios Island : Constitution Day
Massachusett : Children's Day(Sunday)
Paraguay : Chaco Peace Day (1935)(Sunday)
Shelby, Mich : National Asparagus Festival(Thursday)
Great Britain : Queen's official birthday (National Day)(Saturday)
National Humor Week Ends
National Fragrance Week Ends
National Bathroom Reading Week (Day 6)
Manheim, Penn : Festival of Red Rose
Portable Computer Month

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Religious Observances
Buddhist-Bhutan : Buddha's Ascension
Christian : Feast of Bl Guy of Cortona
RC : Commem of SS Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor, Nazarius, martyrs
RC : Commemoration of St John of San Facondo, confessor

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Religious History
1458 In England, the College of St. Mary Magdalen was founded at Oxford University.
1720 Birth of Isaac Pinto, translator of the first Jewish prayerbook published in America.
1744 David Brainerd, 26, was ordained a missionary to the Indians in Colonial New England by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
1914 The first edition of A.T. Robertson's monumental 'Grammar of the Greek New Testament' was released. Its 1400+ pages make it the largest systematic analysis of the original New Testament language ever published.
1950 American missionary martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Earthly blessing is no sign of heavenly favor. Behold how many wicked prosper.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body."

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Things To Do If You Ever Became An Evil Overlord...
The artifact which is the source of your power will not be kept on the Mountain of Despair beyond the River of Fire guarded by the Dragons of Eternity. It will be in your safe-deposit box. The same applies to the object which is your one weakness.

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Why did the Chicken cross the Road...
Homer Simpson:
"Mmmmmmmmmm...chicken..."

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Dumb Laws...
Elkhart Indiana:
It is illegal for barbers to threaten to cut off kid's ears.

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A Cowboy's Guide to Life...
The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back into your pocket.

[The Mayor]

By grace you have been saved through faith . . . ; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. —Ephesians 2:8-9

The first step to receiving eternal life is to admit that we don't deserve it.

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Aeronaut

[SAMWolf]

Morning E.G.C. Gonna try and get downtown to see the ships of "Fleet Week" Weather looks sort of decent

[Aeronaut]

Hi Sam. That's quite an airplane they rolled out. I was also surprised at how long the C-5 has been operational. I thought they were a lot newer than that.

[SAMWolf]

Morning alfa6.

The Boeing Model 294 was originally designated XBLR-1 (Experimental Bomber - Long Range), but became the XB-15 before construction was complete. When accepted by the Army Air Corps, it was the largest bomber ever tested in the US. The XB-15 was powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-1830-11 'Twin Wasp' radial engines of 1,000 hp. each, but was still significantly underpowered. The top speed of the bomber was only 197 mph which was unacceptable and the aircraft wasn't considered for production.

The Douglas XB-19 was originally designated XBLR-2 (eXperimental Bomber Long-Range 2) and was the largest bomber built for the Army up to that time (1938). Only three aircraft were given XBLR designations: the Boeing XBLR-1 was later renamed XB-15, the XB-19, and the Sikorsky XBLR-3 was a design study which was never built.

The XB-19 was essentially used as a test bed for very large bomber construction techniques and flight characteristics. The Douglas Aircraft Company actually wanted to cancel the project because of the expense and extended construction time which made the aircraft obsolete before it ever flew. However, the Army Air Corps insisted the aircraft be completed for test use.

[SAMWolf]

1924 George Herbert Walker Bush (R) 43rd VP (1981-89) 41st Pres (1989- )

Happy Birthday, Mr President

[SAMWolf]

Hi Mayor.

[The Mayor]

Hi Sam!

[SAMWolf]

I didn't realize they were that old either. Time flies....

[GailA]

Good morning, well it's still morning for about 20 more minutes. photo essay on Ronald Reagan's funeral