I've landed a few times at this airport in Honduras...always a thrill!

 

Trip 105, Summer 2015, Bahrain/Wake Island



211 Next stop, the Moon.







212 Suck, squeeze, bang, blow. That’s what makes the motors go.







213 Kick back, watch the world fly by, make money.







214 Sandy city on the sea.







215/216 Buildin’ big big towers.











217/220 Durrat Al Bahrain artificial islands. $1.3B in build costs.



















221 Lets go fishin’!







222 My girl 07007173 workin’ like a champ as usual, but it’s friggin’ hot out. Let’s pull chalks and GTFU!







223 “80 knots.” “Clamp.”







224 “Positive rate.” “Gear up.” “Gear up.”







225 Boat doing boat stuff at full chooch.







226 Scoopin’ out the scrap metal 727’s. Steps down for easy access.







227/228 Manama Bahrain











229 Trekked back across the Atlantic, but had to divert to Jersey for the weekend. Boss asked if I’d be able to babysit the bird for a few day until a new crew could drive up from Delaware, and go out on another mission. Would I have a choice? No, so I said, “Sure, where to?” “Need you to go out to Hawaii and the South Pacific.” Sweet! That night sitting in the hotel room the light hit the window just right to catch my eye. Wonder what the story was behind an outline of sweat where some girl was having fun on a previous night since the last time the glass was cleaned?







230 Made a quick stop down in Alabama to Roll Tide, War Eagle, and pick up some junk.

 

"50 feet. Stable. Landing crew..." Hold the **** on!

 

Those pics are amazing

 

Great pictures...amazing what a few spare billion can do!!

 

231 I was told down here that, “The South will rise again!”, and they’ll use rockets.







232 We had to climb pretty quick for the one friggin’ hill next to the runway.







233 Alabama country club?







234 Pacific clouds look pretty much like Atlantic clouds.







235 Watch out for that lava!







236/240 - Hawaiian Island tour.



















241 Downtown Honolulu looking busy with beautiful weather!







242 Bring your boat to work day, or go fishing on a lunch break?







243 Runway in sight, before landing check complete, clear to land.







244/245 Runway 26L











246 Getting paid to drink on the beach. Best job I ever had.







247 East coaster on the far left coaster.







248 Pacific surf wear?







249 Electric Beach sunset.







250 Great friggin’ day and met some friends too.

 

Be safe, thanks for checking in

 

Always great keeping up with your travels...Merry Christmas to you and the crew!!

 

251 On this trip we also had a “dollar rider” out on his first mission. I needed some help “calibrating the radar” using a steel chain to do the hokiepokie with as the winch controller “fine tunes” the signal.







252 Well, something all came together right as in the middle of the biggest ocean, we were on time to find Wake Island.







253 I was amazed how small the place is.







254 Water looks perfect for a swim, but I imagine there is a mess of sharks or something.







255 Circled around for winds, and a different view of the island.







256/258 Nowhere else to go easily, so let’s make this one count.















259 Vintage ramp of history dating back to WW2. I don’t know that my grandfather was here, but easily could have been.







260 Job’s done, stuff delivered, now it’s a long way back around the world to home. Was on the road a few weeks for this one, so the photoset was bigger than most.

 

Looks like your back in Hawaii...Diamondhead crater and good old Hickam AFB!

 

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All loaded up with Christmas cheer.



Iraqi Christmas dawn.



"Reach 435, expedite climb at best rate for traffic heading 230."
"Copy, searching for Santa, Reach 435."



Santa’s USAF delivery subcontractors.



Adrianspeeder

 

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You have a ways to go to catch me, young man - I've got over 5300 hours in a P-3 and another 600 or so in a P-2.