The Jalopy Journal
We had our fair share good fuel cars on the East Coast. However, this may not be one of Roger Toth's better moments. Into the catch fence at...
Hey Blue, I flew Q models out of Beale, we frequented Kadena often in the mid-80s to support the SR-71. Later flew R models at...
Thats it....he was an east coast a/fd driver if i remember correctly...or not.
I can't recall. If somebody said the name I'd go "ya thats it." Damn old age.......:mad:
Me and an old Friend at the now closed Williams AFB. I was a lot younger when I flew those.
What was left. I got a couple more Jim Cutler photos around here somewhere, one shows that the roll cage slide slammed violently on its side up...
Start of the run, notice that the American Way car is missing the back 1/2 the body which if I remember correctly was burned off a week or two...
Me, that pesky gopher kid at Maple Grove, pushing the car back from the burnout on the fateful run. It was underexposed, best I could get.
Last shot, not sure any aircraft could fly in this configuration.
Note the fake painted on soot out the windows. BTW, how do you get the full size photos instead of the small attachements?
"Fate is the Hunter" 1964 screenshot. Based on the bestselling 1961 book by Ernst Gann, the author was so disappointed with the result that he...
Steve Kanuika Speed Shop outside West Chester, PA. Was just a kid, use to have my mom stop there so I coud get a copy of Drag Times. Always drove...
Early Simulator, F-89, Feb 1954. [IMG]
F-86 training, mid-50s Controller "In the flare go around, use afterburner....." Pilot: "Afterburners haven't been invented yet....."...
First KC-135 on production line in early 1956. Note the KC-97s still being built in the background. JT [IMG]
Info from back of photo above..... JT [IMG]
Americans inspecting captured ME-109, 1945. Info from back of photo in thread below. JT [IMG]
Santa artrives at the long closed Williams AFB in a since retired T-37, mid-70s if I remember correctly. Sorry if kind of recent, does fit the...
C-33 at Wheeler Field HI in 1939, DC-2 not a DC-3. [IMG]
P-47 depot level maintenance, Hickam Hawaii, 1944 [IMG]
Bellows Hawaii, 1944, 333rd Fighter Squadron. Getting ready for a test hope in newly arrived P-47s. [IMG]
Same Christmas, man was I set up. BTW, how do you post the big photos, not the "attached thumbnails?" Got some great old and rare aviation...
Wow, is this from a simplier time! Dig the helmet, coaster brakes.
Where is this?
Wow, been lurking/posting infrequently on this outstanding board a long time, but nothing brought back the memories like this "didn't remember...
Thanks Dennis :mad: LOL
John Shanks took this photo, Dave Benjamin at Ontario 78. Not his best year...........
This picture says it all to me, the classic funny car match race from the very early 70s. JJ vs Fred Goeske at Maple Grove, 71? Interstingly I...
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