And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
An Alaska Army National Guard CH-54B Tarhe airlifts an OA-10 PBY Catalina flying boat during a recovery operation. The historic aircraft was abandoned by the Air Force after engine trouble forced it down at Dago Lake on September 30, 1947.
Kinda like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6kC0cNb31M
Six years later, using the anti-rotation device created by Jack Erickson's people at Erickson Air Crane. In 1987 the Guard hung a 'chute off the tail end of their lift to keep it from spinning, which is fine when you're moving forward. Not so much when you're placing a heavy object on top of a building. Jack's people were brilliant. As was Jack.
Canadian Vickers OA-10A (MSN CV465). Delivered as USN PBV-1A BuNo 67918. Transfered to USAAF as OA-10A, s/n 44-33954. Assigned 10th Rescue Squadron, Elmendorf AFB, AK. Made an emergency landing due to engine failure 30 September 1947 on the edge of Dago Lake, South of King Salmon, AK. The crew was rescued. The aircraft was declared surplus, stripped of usable parts, and the hulk abandoned. Recovered by an Alaska Army ANG CH-54B in 1984. Now resides at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, Anchorage, AK.
CH-54B, s/n 70-18488 (MSN 64096). Assigned Company B, 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Fort Richardson, AK. Nicknamed "Penelope". Now on display at Alaska National Guard Memorial Park, Camp Denali at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson.
Thats a cool photograph.
ReplyDeleteThere's something you don't see every day.
ReplyDeleteKinda like this:
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6kC0cNb31M
Six years later, using the anti-rotation device created by Jack Erickson's people at Erickson Air Crane. In 1987 the Guard hung a 'chute off the tail end of their lift to keep it from spinning, which is fine when you're moving forward. Not so much when you're placing a heavy object on top of a building.
Jack's people were brilliant. As was Jack.
Canadian Vickers OA-10A (MSN CV465). Delivered as USN PBV-1A BuNo 67918. Transfered to USAAF as OA-10A, s/n 44-33954. Assigned 10th Rescue Squadron, Elmendorf AFB, AK. Made an emergency landing due to engine failure 30 September 1947 on the edge of Dago Lake, South of King Salmon, AK. The crew was rescued. The aircraft was declared surplus, stripped of usable parts, and the hulk abandoned. Recovered by an Alaska Army ANG CH-54B in 1984. Now resides at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, Anchorage, AK.
ReplyDeleteCH-54B, s/n 70-18488 (MSN 64096). Assigned Company B, 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Fort Richardson, AK. Nicknamed "Penelope". Now on display at Alaska National Guard Memorial Park, Camp Denali at Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson.