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Vehicle I-D: New F-16 Wraith! Night Fighter WW-2 style!

U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Miranda A. Loera, 28OCT2019.

On 28OCT2019 the 64th Aggressor Squadron (Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada) revealed their new ‘Wraith’ paint-job for the F-16.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Bryan Guthrie, 16NOV2019.

The paint scheme resembles the late World War Two/Korean conflict U.S. night fighter paint-job; black with red markings.  However, in WW-2/Korea the black was glossy as U.S. Army Air Force studies revealed that amazingly glossy black actually was harder to see from the ground with search lights, than a flat/matte (‘nonspecular’ as it was called back then) black.  The new F-16 Wraith uses flat black.

USAF photo by Airman First Class Bryan Guthrie, 16NOV2019.

https://www.facebook.com/NellisAFB/videos/3030768496950918/?t=0

The commander of the 57th Wing crowdsourced the new livery to be applied to the 64th Aggressor Squadron’s F-16C.    But it’s not the first time an F-16 was painted black (New Black And Red Aggressor Paint Job).

USAF photo by Senior Airman Dylan Murakami, 08MAR2021.

USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Alexandre Montes, 17MAR2021.

NEW F-16 DIGITAL GHOST?

‘NEW’ F-16 VISTA

Oregon Mohawk flies again (sort of) & some other Mohawk news

OV means Operational View, and OV-1 sounds like Obi-Wan.  The OV-1 entered production in October 1959 and served in United States, Europe, Korea, Israel, VietNam, Central and South America, and during Desert Shield/Desert Storm in the Middle East. The Mohawk retired from U.S. service in September 1996. At least 133 OV-1Cs were built (sources vary, as many as 169?), the C designating the model which used an IR (InfaRed) imaging system in the nose.

Oregon National Guard’s Project 926, move the old tail number 926 OV-1C Mohawk ‘gate guard’ to a better location.

23OCT2019 was the culmination of three years of volunteer work by Oregon National Guard retirees who worked and flew the OV-1 Mohawk from 1972 to 1992.  Almost all of that three years was spent restoring the gate guard.

The new home of the 926 Mohawk is at Deibert Flight Facility, Army Aviation Support Facility.

The official dedication ceremony was held 02NOV2019.

Video of relocation operations called Project 926:

See more about Oregon National Guard’s long use of the Mohawk here (OV-1 Mohawks in Oregon).

The 02NOV2019 dedication for the new home of 926 came one day after a pilot was killed flying a Mohawk, while preparing for an air show in Florida.

Doctor Joe Masessa, of Mohawk Airshows, was killed when he lost control of the aircraft during a practice flight.  Updated news reports said the air show was forced to cancel all flights due to bad weather.

Mohawk Airshows flies the POW-MIA ‘flying monument’.

https://youtu.be/P8hAbpHAwj4

Somebody needs to make a decal sheet of the Flying Monument.

In the early 1980s, NASA created an automated stall-speed warning system for OV-1Cs.

From February 1983, a NASA-U.S. Army operated Grumman OV-1C over Edwards AFB.

U.S. Army-NASA OV-1C Mohawk, automated stall warning system tests @ Edwards AFB, July 1983.

Hasegawa’s now ancient 1:72 scale OV-1B (also issued by Frog in the early 1970s) can be easily modified to a C version by scratch-building the IR glass in the nose.

Roden’s 1:48 scale D boxing depicts the IR nosed Mohawk.  The D Mohawk is simply a consolidation of all the best upgrades from previous versions.  Oddly, Roden’s C boxing does not depict the IR nose, and the instructions even tell you not to use the IR nose part (which is included on the clear sprue of every Roden Mohawk kit).

Roden’s C version also does not come with the SLAR, but you still need to get it because it comes with fuselage mounted flare dispensers and ‘classified’ electronic recon under-wing pods.

‘Aftermarket’ companies produce a variety of detailing/correction sets for the Hasegawa and Roden kits: Eduard, Cobra Company and Black Dog.

OV-1 vs MiG-17: How the Mohawk became a MiG killer

MINI AIR TANKERS TAKE OFF IN NORTH CAROLINA

Idaho, Kansas, Utah home bases for NASA’s FIREX-AQ!

08 November 2019 (15:40 UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Aban 1398/10 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1441/12 Yi-Hai 4717

NASA-Armstrong DC-8 Airborne Science Laboratory sits on the east ramp of the 124th Fighter Wing, Boise, Idaho, 23JUL2019

NASA’s aged and heavily modified DC-8 airliner is conducting air monitoring missions in relation to the growing wildfire danger in the western U.S.

Idaho National Guard A-10Cs in the foreground, NASA’s DC-8 FIREX-AQ takes off from Gowen Field (Boise Airport), 30JUL2019.

President Donald Trump is portrayed by the ‘main-stream’ news media as being anti-climate, yet since he became President of the United States NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration) has seemingly increased its studies of the effects of pollution and wildfires (including prescribed burns and agricultural fires) on the atmosphere.

On 23JUL2019, NASA held an explainer day for Idaho news media, and as you can tell not many showed up.

The latest study is called FIREX-AQ (Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality), and from 22 July thru 18 August it called Gowen Field, Idaho, its home base.

Loading computers onto a Twin Otter.

FIREX-AQ also uses Twin Otter aircraft from NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration), as well as satellites.

NASA’s ER-2 ‘climate-spy-plane’ based in California is also used.

A peak inside the DC-8.

From 19 August to 05 September FIREX-AQ was based in Salinas, Kansas.

It seems the explainer day had a much bigger turnout in Kansas, than in Idaho.

The final stage of the FIREX-AQ mission will be in Utah. (Update on the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment)

Stormy Summer weather over Boise.

On 08 August, while flying out-of Idaho NASA Made a Rare Flight Right Through a Thundercloud Formed by a Wildfire.

NASA says their DC-8 flys at 42-thousand feet (12-thousand-801 meters or 12.80 kilometers) for as long as 12 hours, collecting air samples with the many antennae protruding from the fuselage.

The NOAA Twin Otters are used on shorter range, lower altitude LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) missions.

Some sensors hangin’ out the windows.

More window sensors on the other side.

NASA DC-8 to Fly Low Over Los Angeles Basin and San Joaquin Valley

What It’s Like to Work in a Flying Smoke Laboratory

Video from 2018, NASA’s DC-8 super-particulate-sniffer in Germany:

 

NASA ER-2 ‘CLIMATE SPY PLANE’ PROVES CALIFORNIA’S STRICT ANTI-POLLUTION LAWS ARE A JOKE!

RED BANK & SOUTH FIRE HELICOPTER OPS

A-10C SNOWBLIND WALKAROUND IN IDAHO!

In 2016, the NASA DC-8 was in Korea conducting high-altitude monitoring of air quality. Note all the sensors/pipes sticking out-the side of the plane.

Video explainer of NASA’s DC-8 mission over Korea:

 

NASA ‘climate spy plane’ proves California’s strict anti-pollution laws are a joke!

08 November 2019 (03:37 UTC-07 Tango 06) 17 Aban 1398/10 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1441/12 Yi-Hai 4717

NASA pilot suits-up for an ER-2 AVIRIS-NG mission high over Hawaii, February 2018. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Corporal Luke Kuennen.

Six decades after California set the first global standards for industrial anti-air-pollution laws the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) has proven those (and subsequent) laws to be laughable.

NASA ER-2 preps for a mission from Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, February 2018. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Luke Kuennen.

NASA used it’s modified U-2R/TR-1A, called the ER-2 (Earth Resources-2), to inspect industrial air pollution, scanning the ground from near-space (65-thousand feet/19-thousand-812 meters): “Before the pilots even take off, we put them on 100% oxygen for an hour to get all of the nitrogen out of their systems. It’s similar to what scuba divers can face. If they have nitrogen in their system, they can end up getting what they call the bends, and it’ll be a really bad day for that pilot.”-Wason Miles, ER-2 life support crew, from 2018 interview concerning the HyspIRI preparatory airborne mission over Hawaii

Liquid nitrogen is used to cool the ER-2’s hyperspectral thermal emission spectrometer. USMC photo by Lance Corporal Luke Kuennen.

The two years long NASA-California methane mission resulted in the AVIRIS-NG ( Airborne Visible InfraRed Imaging Spectrometer-Next Generation) system, onboard the ER-2, discovering dozens of what NASA calls methane “super-emitters”(published 06NOV2019) across the Los Angeles area.  This why I say California’s progressively ‘tougher’ anti-pollution laws failed.  I lived in California when those anti-pollution laws began driving out many industries causing the loss of thousands of jobs just in the Los Angeles area, in the 1970s-80s.  The exalted lawmakers of The Golden State then started playing games with their own anti-pollution laws, trying to woo back major employers.  NASA’s California methane mission revealed that the industrial sector of the Los Angeles area is still pumping out clouds of pollution, even with stricter air quality laws and fewer industrial operations.

NASA photo by Jim Ross, 13JUL2006.

Boring 2018 lecture type NASA explainer video about how AVIRIS detects and maps methane emissions:

NASA photo by Lori Losey, August 2001.

2017 NASA video explainer of their climate-spy-plane AVIRIS system:

ER-2 tail#706, over Edwards AFB, California, 04NOV1997. NASA photo by Carla Thomas.

In the 1990s, NASA had three ER-2s, but now has two.  The other ER-2 was returned to the U.S. Air Force.

ER-2 tail#709. NASA photo by Tony Landis, 18FEB1998.

Lockheed ER-2 tail#809 cockpit. NASA photo by Tony Landis, 11DEC1999.

ER-2 #809 receives fuel outside Arena Artica hangar in Kiruna, Sweden. SAGE-3 Ozone Loss & Validation Experiment (SOLVE), January 2000. NASA photo by Jim Ross.

ER-2 #809 in Kiruna, Sweden for SAGE-3 Ozone Loss & Validation Experiment (SOLVE), January 2000. NASA photo by Jim Ross.

The ER-2, which has been in use for decades, can be equipped with a variety of sensors.

Large Area Collector sensor for a cosmic dust collection. NASA photo by Tom Tschida, 24APR2009.

ER-2 under-wing mounted cosmic dust collector pod. NASA photo by Tom Tschida, 24APR2009.

ER-2 Tropical Cloud Systems and Processes (TCSP) mission over Costa Rica, 06JUL2005. NASA photo by Bill Ingalls.

May 2010 pic of NASA’s ER-2 overflying the British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil spill. NASA photo by Regan Geeseman.

VEHICLE ID: 61 YEARS LATER U-2 & TR-1 STILL FLYING HIGH, COOL VIDEO!

NASA’S DC-8 CLIMATE WARRIOR

IDAHO, KANSAS, UTAH HOME BASES FOR NASA’S FIREX-AQ!

UNMANNED MILITARY SPACE SHUTTLE BREAKS RECORD IN SPACE

SUPER GUPPY BE OLD, BUT NASA STILL USES IT!

“These drunks will run over your children”: Immigrant Invasion U.S.A., October 2019

Incomplete (tip-o-the iceberg) list of main-stream-news links about global immigrant/border operations affecting the United States taxpayers, October 2019.

Mexico deports 311 illegals from India!  Indian news media reveal that last year as many as 9-thousand South Asians tried to enter the United States illegally through Mexico (in an attempt to escape increased persecution by Hindus)!

More and more British-empire Canadians being denied entry to the United States, for up to five years!

Pro-illegal immigrant ‘christians’ fear “Both the church and the nation will steadily shrink without newcomers from beyond our national borders.”

Schools in Illinois, Florida, Arizona and Colorado hiring teachers from Philippines, claiming they can’t find enough qualified U.S. teachers!

U.S. farms addicted to exploited immigrant workers: “In the past decade alone, the H-2A program has tripled the number of workers being flown and bused in to work American fields, with more than half landing in five agriculture-heavy states: Georgia, Florida, Washington, North Carolina, and California.”

Climate Change: New York Times reveals most disaster recovery work being done by illegals!

Somewhere in the eastern Pacific, 11OCT2019, U.S. Coast Guard personnel pose on top of the drug smuggling submarine they captured. During an eight week period the Coast Guard captured 11 smugglers and an estimated U.S.$216-million worth of illegal drugs.

Border Patrol’s growing presence at hospitals creates fear

“Pretty much every other day a worker is sent to the hospital or loses a body part.”-Matt McConnell, Human Rights Watch, commenting on the increased use of illegals in the U.S. meat industry

Local city/county taxpayers spent about U.S.$7-million taking care of illegals ‘dumped’ in U.S. border towns by federal government due to the asylum seeking process

ALABAMA: Illegal accused of raping 12 years old girl

 “When it comes to immigrants, our goal is to follow existing Alabama law. That comes from 2011[when Obama was President] immigration policy. In addition to our normal role of upholding the constitution of the United States, that’s our defining policy of the program when it comes to dealing with illegal immigrants.”-Mike Swafford, Morgan County Sheriff’s Office

 “Decatur will not be a sanctuary city”

Turns out ‘illegal’ sentenced to 99 years in prison for the death of a nurse is actually in the U.S. legally, and as a result of the racist prosecution and inept local news media constantly calling him an ‘illegal’, could get a retrial  

ARIZONA: “Americans are being victimized and left behind by the very officials they voted into office and who made an oath to protect and uphold the law. This includes immigration law.”-Mary Ann Mendoza, mother of policeman who was killed by a intoxicated illegal immigrant who also has a long criminal history

False stats about Arizona’s illegal population?

Border Patrol captures 32 illegals riding inside tractor-trailer

Convicted human trafficker sentenced to extra time in prison for sex crime against illegal migrant

Proof pro-Sanctuary City supporters are stupid?

ARKANSAS:  A university, and bank, sponsored national ‘Debt Fixer’ event tasked students to reduce future federal debt, interestingly students discovered that dealing with immigrants who are in-country illegally would reduce taxpayer spending by 5% in 2050. 

“We’re concerned with the crime level we see in our own counties, and there is maybe a portion of that related to illegal immigration. The big thing here is immigration is not a southwest border state problem, it is a 50 state problem.”-Sheriff Chris Brown, Cleburne County

CALIFORNIA: Los Angeles releases 100 convicted criminals every day, just because they are illegals!

Non-citizens, and even illegals, can now legally control local governments!

Governor pardons additional three illegals convicted of crimes, and commuted the life sentences of two others, saying the illegals “made bad decisions”!

University students investigated for making fun of illegals!

California politician sues magazine over article that claims his family moved their dairy to Iowa because of the cheap illegal immigrant labor!

Video, U.S. Coast Guard captures U.S.$92-million worth of illegal drugs:

COLORADO: Eight taxpayer funded universities go to court to ‘protect’ their illegal students

CONNECTICUT:  University of Connecticut’s new tuition free program, which is available to illegals, will cost donors/taxpayers U.S.$1-million per class!

More proof illegal workers are about money, not freedom: State attorney general accuses employers of ripping-off illegal workers

DELAWARE: 

 Local news media boast of booming illegal population

FLORIDA:  Revealed; Florida’s economy so addicted to cheap illegal workers that the E-Verify system could destroy it!

Sanctuary cities forbidden by new state law

Illegal Alien Allegedly Stole Car, Left Disabled Dog to Die

IDAHO: After two years of ‘catering’ to Latino grade school students, Latino grades are still too low.  State Education officials say Latinos are the future workforce of Idaho!

Immigrant farm workers finally speaking up about massive pesticide contamination!

Boise to spend local tax dollars convincing illegals to take part in U.S. Census!

  Long term politician promotes bill that would make it easier for farmers to bring in more migrant workers!

Foreign student enrollments at Idaho State University decline by 129 (26.7%)

ILLINOIS: Illegal immigrant in McHenry County Adult Correctional Facility dies in “horrible breach of standards of care”

 Half the workers at KSO MetalFab had fake identification documents (ID), more than a dozen arrested, including business owners. Illegals were hired through established staffing company that focused on immigrants.

After KSO MetalFAb raid, Spanish language facebook page created because the English version was having info about immigration raids deleted

University of Illinois begins brainwashing personnel via Undocumented Student Ally Training

INDIANA: A cook arrested for drugs admitted he’s been in the U.S. illegally since 2016

IOWA: State supreme court rules that illegal status can affect sentencing for criminal convictions

Iowa City Police create new taxpayer funded position to directly deal with growing immigrant population

Hearing for illegal accused of killing Mollie Tibbetts put on hold

KANSAS: ICE agent pleads guilty to attempting to help illegal immigrant prisoner to escape

KENTUCKY: 19 companies, including health insurers and pharmaceuticals, launch campaign against healthcare for illegals

LOUISIANA: Illegal immigrant arrested, accused of 100 counts of child porn

Illegal immigrant connected to collapse of Hard Rock Hotel to be deported, at least four other illegals known to be involved with the hotel construction

Officials claim illegal immigrant killed his-self at the Richwood Correctional Center

Man with expired work visa arrested for fraud, theft and money laundering

MAINE: ICE says new office location is not about immigrants

Border Patrol personnel harassed a family just because of the way they looked and the language they spoke, turned out one of those harassed was indeed an illegal

MARYLAND:  Local news media pro-immigrant editorial inadvertently reveals that 29% of immigrants in Maryland are illegals

MS-13/illegal immigrants plead guilty to head-chopping murders

Whore house shutdown, was staffed by illegal immigrant victims of human trafficking

MASSACHUSETTS: New federal immigration rules has the people of ‘Greater’ Boston and Newton running scared 

“There’s a limitless number of illegal Dominican immigrants coming into the Lawrence area and other parts of Massachusetts, who either bought or stole a Puerto Rican U.S. identity on the way here…”-Andrew Lelling, U.S. Attorney District of Massachusetts

MISSISSIPPI: Employer who hired hundreds of illegals, knowingly, had done it before and the law enforcers knew it and did nothing

concrete company owner sentenced to prison and fined nearly $80,000 on two counts of harboring an illegal alien

NEBRASKA: 14 illegals captured while working at pallet factory

NEVADA: Las Vegas becomes sanctuary city via court order

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Suffolk Sheriff’s office has ordered all 200 illegal immigrant detainees out of the county jail

NEW JERSEY:  Passaic City’s 10th annual Immigrant Integration Day

Anti-illegals Cape May County sues the state over pro-illegals law

City of New Jersey to spend tax dollars convincing illegals to take part in the 2020 Census, it’s all about the money as it was revealed that the city got U.S.$23-billion in federal funding for social programs in 2016, based on the number of low income people counted in the last Census!

NEW MEXICO: Pick-up truck packed with illegals crashes

Report reveals that even the big-money U.S. oil industry is addicted to illegal workers!

NEW YORK: New York City Will Fine You U.S.$250-thousand for Saying “Illegal Alien.” That’s an Assault on the Constitution.

NORTH CAROLINA: The Effect of Immigration Status on Personal Injury Claims in North Carolina

ICE drops $300,000 fine for an immigrant in church sanctuary

High Point University revealed that most of the supporters of immigration, in its latest survey, are immigrants in the U.S. military

lawyer sentenced for harboring illegal immigrant

NORTH DAKOTA: Immigrant pleads guilty to trying to kill woman he believes is a witch, courts refuse to reveal his immigrant status

Iranian came to U.S. to work in oil industry, applied for work visa, now faces deportation for National Security reasons

OHIO: ICE Rescinds $500,000 Fine For Sanctuary Mom

How ‘perfume’ helped accused illegal immigrant drug dealers operate in central Ohio

On live TV, reporter accuses man of hiding illegal immigrants

OKLAHOMA:  ICE accuses Sheriff’s Department of aiding and abetting an illegal immigrant accused of rape: “Within a few hours of being released, this illegal alien was back at the home of the rape victim where he was free to re-victimize her and harm other members of the community. Fortunately, ICE deportation officers were able to quickly locate this individual and safely take him back into custody.”

OREGON: ballot proposal to repeal undocumented immigrant driver’s licenses rejected

PUERTO RICO:  Police violence against Dominicans in Puerto Rico suggests systemic problem

U.S. Coast Guard captured 95 illegals being trafficked aboard a ship from Dominican Republic, 06OCT2019.

PENNSYLVANIA: Man sentenced to six years in prison for trying to illegally obtain drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants

For-profit prison operator plans illegal childrens’ prison, I mean childrens’ shelter in Chester County

Halloween obsession, plus immigrant labor, made one man Pennsylvania’s pumpkin king

New state law targets illegal construction workers

RHODE ISLAND:  Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility extends contract with ICE

 For some reason tiny Rhode Island, with it’s approximate population of 1-million crammed into such a small space, is the hardest state to get an accurate Census count 

SOUTH CAROLINA: Corrupt local cops plead guilty for attempting to traffic drugs for a ‘Mexican Drug Gang’! 

TENNESSEE:  Revealed by local TV station; Nashville Probation & Parole director secretly fired for allowing probation personnel to  track illegal immigrants!

  New mayor rescinds old mayor’s pro-sanctuary city policy, for fear of losing U.S.$1-million in taxpayer funding

 Illegal immigrant, deported twice and with a criminal history, arrested for gun crime 

undocumented immigrant is being held after he allegedly sexually assaulted his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter

Despite increasing cases of illegals committing crimes, Children’s Theater puts on pro-illegal play for grad school students

TEXAS: “…illegal aliens. And they were being held for such offenses as murder, sexual assault of children — there was about 70 of them. And there were robbers in there and kidnappers and people who committed arson and people who were DWI…. …Of those people that we have in custody, we know for a fact that 72% of them are repeat offenders, so if we have to turn them loose, or they get released, they’re coming back to your neighborhood and my neighborhood. These drunks will run over your children….”-Sheriff Bill E. Waybourn, Tarrant County

Jones County has an empty prison and a load of debt. Their solution? Dust off the old prison and fill it with undocumented migrants.

Security camera video of Border Patrol making a water rescue near El Paso, 14OCT2019:

UTAH: ‘Dreamers’ demand to be allowed to practice law

Eye doctor accused of blinding illegals with faulty cataract surgery

VERMONT:  Irony; Migrant farm workers lack access to food

VIRGINIA: Insurance company accused of ripping-off detained illegals

WASHINGTON: Illegal immigrant rapist offered more protections than legal residents!

Second illegal immigrant tied to ‘merciless’ sanctuary-city murder

 Arrogant organizations demand politician apologize for calling undocumented immigrants ‘illegals and drug dealers’!

Security cam video of vehicle illegally crossing from Canada into U.S. (near Lynden), seven illegals from British-empire’s United Kingdom were captured by Border Patrol, 02OCT2019:

Washington DC: “These numbers are numbers that no immigration system in the world is designed to handle, including ours.”acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan, on 88% increase in border apprehensions

Trump allows 250-thousand immigrants from El Salvador to remain

U.S. Supreme Court could bolster the power of states to prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft 

Justice Department Announces Plan To Collect DNA From Migrants

WISCONSIN: Latinos threaten illegals at gunpoint 

WYOMING: ICE DOUBLES SIZE OF PROPOSED IMMIGRATION JAIL

Immigrant invasion U.S.A., September 2019:“LAWS ARE NOT POLICY, THEY ARE LAW”

“unintentional water landing”: U.S. Airman mysteriously ‘disappears’ into Gulf of Mexico!

06 November 2019 / 18:57 UTC-07 Tango 06 (16 Aban 1398/09 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1441/11 Yi-Hai 4717)

“We will search as much as the crew duty day, gas and conditions allow us until we find our brother in arms.”-Lieutenant Colonel Chad Senior, 920th Deputy Group Commander/Combat Rescue Officer

The U.S. Air Force reports that a Special Tactics Airman (24th Special Ops Wing) went missing while taking part in static line jump training over the Gulf of Mexico.

Video, 39th Rescue Squadron preps HC-130N Combat King for search mission, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, 06NOV2019:

Since 05NOV2019, crews onboard a HC-130N Combat King and HH-60G Black Hawks are searching for the Airman.  USAF-Reserve, U.S. Army, Coast Guard, Florida Fish & Wildlife and even local Sheriff’s units are helping with the search.

Official USAF announcements stated the Airman made an “unintentional water landing”.   At this time the USAF is not reporting any details about the incident.

Video, 301st Rescue Squadron HH-60G taxis for search flight, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, 06NOV2019:

MOUNT WHITNEY DEATH TRAP, SAR MONEY PIT

RESCUING DOGS, AND DOGS WHO’LL RESCUE YOU!

“new norm”: Pacific Ring of Fire, October 2019

Incomplete list of seismic/natural disaster reports from around the Pacific Ring of Fire, October 2019.

AIR Reinsurer revealed that past disaster prediction models have been lacking for Asian countries, when compared to North America and Europe, is warning “Re/insurers have to be prepared for that new norm and adjust pricing and all the other conditions they have to deal with…”

If you like math try Scaling Laws for earthquakes and Cascadia slow-slip events

NASA says rice farming increases the chance of liquefaction during earthquakes!

British scientists discover How your morning coffee can help you survive an earthquake

Scientist claims hurricanes-typhoons can create 3.5 magnitude earthquakes

Magma crystallization makes volcanoes more explosive

Volcanic ash modifies the height, width and lifetime of a standing shock wave that can occur during volcanic eruptions

Now scientists say Earth can absorb a shocking amount of carbon (no shit Sherlock, where do you think the carbon comes from?!)

Ocean acidification now blamed on asteroid, not volcanoes

AUSTRALIA: 5.5 quake Macquarie Island

3.4 quake off Queensland

CANADA:  Recent natural disasters reveal that ignorant west-coast Canucks were using the 911 emergency help number as a tsunami early warning system (which it was never designed to be).  City of Victoria experiences sudden 54-thousand person subscribership increase to its alert system, in just one week!

Record one million people take part in British Columbia earthquake drill 

Maybe it’s because a New map reveals quake-deathtraps for people of Vancouver

Study shows mega-disaster could kill Canadian insurance industry

Killer fungus brought to Canada by Alaskan tsunami

Believe it or not, Canada’s geologically active western mountains (including volcanic Mount Meager) are little understood, scientists demand government fund research

CHILE: 5.9 quake

CHINA: 5.2 quake 

5.4 quake hits Taiwan

4.7 quake Taiwan

Stricter Seismic Resistant Measures for Public buildings mandated

COLOMBIA: U.S. Southern Command spends tax-dollars, and ten days, training Colombian soldiers how to respond to natural disasters.

Video of U.S. Marines practicing disaster response on Base de Enternamiento de Infanteria de Marina, Coveñas, 01OCT209:

ECUADOR: 4.6 quake

EL SALVADOR: 4.4 quake

FIJI: 5.0 quake 24OCT2019

5.3 quake 21OCT2019

GUATEMALA: 4.8 quake along border with Mexico

INDONESIA: 5.6 quake

Merapi erupts

More proof that you must not rely on the government and/or private sector organizations; a year after a September 2018 tsunami “…the government reported that 4,140 people died in the disaster, of which 1,016 were not identified; and a further 705 people remain missing. More than 4,400 were seriously injured and more than 110,000 houses destroyed….. more than 172,000 people were displaced…. …170 organizations were or are carrying out recovery activities across 63 location….   … is encouraging the community to actively take ownership and be more involved in repair, recovery and reconstruction efforts.”

JAPAN: Fate and denial: The Fukushima reactor 3, and the L’Aquila earthquake 7

Landslide kills two more

Japan braces for two more destructive storms, two weeks after chaos of Typhoon Hagibis

Typhoon Hagibis farm, forest, fishery losses rise

Deadly typhoon forces Japan to face its vulnerability to increasingly powerful storms

Typhoon Hagibis highlights need for multilingual emergency alerts

Typhoon Hagibis: Homeless men denied shelter in middle of typhoon

5.7 earthquake jolts Chiba-Tokyo area

Extreme weather and natural disasters make Japan’s civil protection agencies among world’s busiest

Nearly 20% of Large Earthquakes Happen in Japan

More proof JAPAN is the MODERN DAY ATLANTIS

KOREA: In a nation that was relatively earthquake free, a national earthquake drill was conducted

3.4 quake

MEXICO:  Two quakes hit near border with Arizona

Aztec Anales de Tlatelolco reveal massive catastrophic earthquake that struck in Gregorian year 1575

NEW ZEALAND: 5.7 quake hits Milford Sound

New Plymouth quake

 Scientists claim human pollution exceeds volcanic pollution

NICARAGUA: Masaya erupts?

PAPUA NEW GUINEA:  4.2 quake 31OCT2019

4.5 quake 29OCT2019

4.6 quake 29OCT2019

5.5 quake 17OCT2019

Oil industry excited about potential for offshore hydrocarbon mining

PERU: Machu Picchu was hit by strong earthquakes during construction

4.4 quake 25OCT2019

PHILIPPINES:  31OCT2019-Three deadly quakes in one month

2nd Very Strong earthquake – 29OCT2019

The largest known volcano in the world discovered in the Philippine Sea

  Yet another deadly quake, landslide

RUSSIA:  5.1 quake 30OCT2019

5.3 quake 05OCT2019

Scientists claim new tech can warn of the ‘Big One’ five days before it happens

 moderately large explosive eruption occurred on Shiveluch volcano

SAMOA, Independent State of: Magnitude 6.0 quake

TONGA: Metis Shoal erupts

UNITED STATES:  Beer industry reveals new warehouses to be built with “weather and seismic-related considerations”!

Alaska; 20% of dock supports failed in last year’s earthquake, drastically reducing amount of products being off-loaded.  Turns out that local government had already been spending U.S.$3-million per year ‘kicking-the-can-down-the-road’ trying to maintain the aged docks!

Seismic airguns used to map the ocean floor are injuring beluga whales

“…the agency arbitrarily dismissed the risks from seismic, including the likelihood that denning polar bears will be run over and killed by seismic vehicles.”

5.7 quake strikes

Underwater volcano creates air pockets that can sink ships!

Tsunami that happened 55 years ago created killer tropical fungus

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Nevada; USGS gives university million dollar grant to build additional seismic monitoring stations

Seismic risks for delayed public building renovations creates urgency for state taxpayer funding

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Oregon; Towns to go under, literally, due to tsunami

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Utah; FEMA gives Salt Lake City U.S.$4-million in additional tax funding for ongoing earthquake preps

Washington; State disaster experts say Cascadia Event will push a swath of ocean 18 feet high toward the coast at speeds of at least 20 knots.  That’s why state officials are spending tax dollars creating new tsunami warning/evac system.

 Know the 4 types of tsunamis that could impact people after an earthquake

Cascadia Event will create tsunami that will swamp coastline within 15 minutes, not enough time to get to higher ground, so what about Vertical Evacuation towers?

New tsunami evac-pods, get one now!

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VANUATU: Yasur volcano continues to be unstable and seismic activity is set to continue

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Unmanned military Space Shuttle breaks record in space

27 October 2019 (13:09 UTC-07 Tango 06) 05 Aban 1398/27 Safar 1441/29 Jia-Xu 4717

Real short thermal image video of 27OCT2019 X-37B landing:

“The sky is no longer the limit for the Air Force and, if Congress approves, the U.S. Space Force.”-General David L. Goldfein, U.S. Air Force

After two years in orbit, the space drone X-37B returned to Earth, setting a record: “The X-37B continues to demonstrate the importance of a reusable spaceplane. Each successive mission advances our nation’s space capabilities.”-Barbara Barrett, Secretary of the Air Force

Photo via Space Launch Delta 45.

At 03:15 Eastern U.S. Time, 27OCT2019, the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing 780 days in orbit during its fifth test mission: “This program continues to push the envelope as the world’s only reusable space vehicle. With a successful landing today, the X-37B completed its longest flight to date and successfully completed all mission objectives. This mission successfully hosted Air Force Research Laboratory experiments, among others, as well as providing a ride for small satellites.”-Randy Walden, Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office

You should keep in mind how significant the 780 days in orbit are, as the Boeing X-37B was originally designed for only 270 day-orbits.

The X-37B OTV is placed inside a pod for launching, 31AUG2017. Photo via Boeing.

X-37B Mission-5 launched on 07SEP2017 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on-board a Space X Falcon 9 booster (Air Force Awards Launch Services Contracts to SpaceX).  Mission-6 will launch sometime in 2020.

Launch pod carrying X-37B is towed to the Space-X rocket, which can be seen waiting in the background, 05SEP2017. Photo via Boeing.

2017 official video explainer of the X-37B:

U.S. Air Force photo, 07MAY2017.

Video of X-37B Mission-4 landing, 07MAY2017, Kennedy Space Center.  Watch as it roles past a Space Shuttle ‘gate guard’:

USAF photo, 07MAY2017.

What’s it like to have the X-37B fly over your head? Watch the video:

Before the use of a SpaceX rocket, the X-37B was launched by the old Atlas-5.   Video, March 2015, Atlas-5 rocket launches AFSPC-5 satellite carrying X-37B from Cape Canaveral:

Video, 2012 Pentagon Report reveals unmanned space plane was taken over by DARPA from NASA:

The X-37B OTV being placed inside the launch capsule/pod, 31MAR2010. USAF photo.

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Indiana militia expands flood response ops

27 October 2019 (03:03 UTC-07 Tango 06) 05 Aban 1398/27 Safar 1441/29 Jia-Xu 4717

In preparation for more flooding disasters, the Indiana National Guard expanded In-HART (Indiana Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team) operations.  In-HART is a joint operation that includes civilian rescue technicians and Indiana National Guard personnel.

On 24OCT2019, the South Bend Swift Water Rescue Team joined National Guard forces at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, as a way to increase the number of people trained for swift water rescues.

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