1. The Way It Was Song

Remember that part where we said things were looser back then? Here's a photo that could be the Poster Child for that sort of thing, taken at Randolph Field back in the '30s; that's the Taj in the background. Try this today and you'd have the Air Force, OSHA, the Green folks, and Lord knows who else sitting on your posterior asking for blood. There was a time when all you needed was an understanding CO who knew the value of good publicity and enough intestinal fortitude to go out and Do the Dumb But Fun Thing. Then again, they used to crash a lot back then too.

Friddell CollectionOK You Guys; Exactly What Is It You're Doing?Every once in a while we come across one of those shots that, to wax a little bit Biblical about it, passeth all understanding. What follows is one of those shots. Lessee now; We got your airplane, we got your bag-pipers, and we got your crowd of assorted civilians. Mark Morgan sent this to me many years ago and he may have actually explained what was going on here, but I can't find much in the way of notes so it's a total mystery to me.

The A-6E is a TRAM bird from VA-196, BuNo 159179, and the photo was taken 28 February 1997 at NAS Whidbey, but once you get past that I'm Officially Stumped. It could easily be a memorial service of some sort, since there seems to be a color guard just aft of the tail, but it's hard to say. What about it, Mark? MorganYou Gotta Love Those Black A-26sYou've heard it before, probably a whole lot more than you ever wanted to.

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The creator and editor of this never-humble blog spent most of his professional career in aviation, a circumstance that allowed him to meet a whole lot of people who took pictures of airplanes. One of those folks was an aeronautical engineer named Mike Hernandez, who spent part of the Korean War as a gunner on B-26s with the 3rd Bomb Wing.

He was kind enough to share some photography with us, so we're going to share it with you. Here's another ramp shot of a 3rd BW B-26C, 44-35634, but the real star of this particular show is 51-5300, the HU-16A, sitting behind it. The sharp-eyed observer will note that none of the Invaders in this piece are wearing nose art, which makes us think that the airplanes are very new in-country. Note that most of the turrets have been removed; they would have been useless against the MiG-15, and most missions were flown after dark anyway. This shot really shows off the slim lines of the B-26. Hernandez via Friddell. OK, modelers; here's your official How to Weather An Invader Nacelle shot.

This bird is new enough to still be carrying a dorsal turret and the airplane is relatively clean, but that nacelle is absolutely filthy. It doesn't take long for a round engine to trash everything around it. Hernandez via FriddellNot All Texas Germans Live in FredericksburgOr at least they didn't in 1990. Bergstrom AFB has been closed for a number of years now, but it was still a going concern (12th AF HQ and home of the 67th TRW) back in the late 80s and early 90s, when they hosted a bi-annual international photo recon meet called RAM. The Federal Luftwaffe was in frequent attendance at those contests, which is where we took these images.

There are people out there who think modern military airplanes are relatively fragile. Those folks have obviously never spent much time around the F-4, which was built like the proverbial brick house. 69-7481 is a Federal Luftwaffe RF-4E and is undergoing last-minute maintenance prior to being manned and launched; all of AG-51's Phantoms were painted in a camo scheme very similar to the classic pre- and early-war RLM 70 and 71 scheme. Some paint jobs just don't look all that good on the F-4, but she wears this one well.

Phillip Friddell. And this is about as pretty as it gets. We'll let Doug tell you about it: (Here are a) couple of T-38 shots from Willy back in about 1977-78. Ended up completely destroying that poor Konica camera body - 500 hrs of riding around in cockpits and trying to take pictures at up to 5 G's just vibrated it into pieces. And no, the shutter hung up at about 3 1/2G's, but I tried it. Do you know how much your back hurts when you've got the camera supported up on the glare shield & you're trying to lean forward & look through the eyepiece with a parachute on your back while your buddy who's flying loads 5 G's on the jet to chase lead? Formation shots were 3 jets full of instructors and one poor solo student who needed a 4-ship ride to graduate.

Weakest student in the class, everyone else had finished up. But he survived. 90 degrees of bank in wing work & 'photo formation' for the pitch out. DougNeat stuff, Doug-thanks as always! And we definitely appreciate the sacrifice of that Konica; the photos are well worth it!The Relief TubeLet's get right down to business this week. First off is a comment from Doug Barbier regarding the F-84F shots we ran a week or so ago: If nobody has identified it for you yet, 51-1654 belonged to the 509th TFS at Langley.

They flew them from 53-56 before going to the Hun - and then getting xfrd to Clark and going to the F-102. DougWhile we're on the topic of F-84Fs, reader Ralph Nardone had this to say about the Monogram kit of same:Hello, Phil. I've been reading R&S online for a while now, and had the good fortune to read a few of the print editions a while back when a friend shared them with me. Today's post about Monogram's kits are spot on-there were none better, and while the majority of those kits are getting old, they're still largely either the best or only game in town. Bang for the buck? In fact, I just posted my build of the Thunderstreak.

Check it out: Keep up the great work! Ralph NardoneWe couldn't agree more, Ralph. Those old Monogram kits have their own quirks to be sure, but at the end of the day almost all of them will allow the creation of a beautiful model. Thanks for writing in.And that's about it for today's Thrilling Edition. Remember to drop us a line at if you have any comments or criticisms, or if you've got some photography or information you'd like to contribute-we're always looking for material and your input is welcomed. Meanwhile, be good to your neighbor and we'll meet again soon.phil.

Long ago in a far-away land (a mere 50 miles south of where I am now) a friend of mine and I decided we didn't like any of the available magazines that covered scale aircraft modeling, so we decided to do our own. That was the birth of the original 'Replica in Scale'.We folded the tent after just a few years of operation; a several-person business evolved into a two-man show (with substantial help from spouses) and the pain just wasn't worth the gain, although we did manage to establish a pretty fair reputation during the adventure.The original 'Replica' was a lot of fun, and was extremely satisfying to boot. I've often considered doing it again, which is the reason for this effort. My former partner isn't involved, but the spirit is certainly there, and the intent.

I hope you like it.

The Way It Was Song

For all those involved with the, they now feel they have resolution to their puzzle, thanks to the beauty of crowdsourcing. The group welcomed all the input (and criticism) but were especially swayed by the ballistics analysis provided by NASA planetary scientist Dr. Phil Metzger,:Here is my conclusion: the ballistics are consistent with it being a small piece of gravel that came out of his parachute pack and flew past at close distance. The ballistics are also consistent with it being a large meteorite that flew past at about 12 to 18 meters distance.

It could be either one, but IMO not anything in between. Based on the odds of parachute packing debris (common) versus meteorite personal flybys (extremely rare), and based on the timing (right after he opened his parachute), I vote for the parachute debris as the more likely.His three plots are below: Ballistics analysis from Dr.

Phil Metzger: The first one shows how the measured and predicted velocity agree only at the two different distances mentioned above. The second assumes it was parachute debris, and shows the velocity of the debris as a function of time after being released from his pack. The third shows the separation between the skydiver and the debris as a function of time. Note that the debris passes the skydiver at 12 seconds after the debris was released, which is the same amount of time in the video from when the drogue chute was opened until the debris passed the skydiver.Metzger concluded the likely outcome is that a small piece of gravel about 3.3 cm in diameter flew by the camera by at about 30 meters per second, or 10 meters per second relative to the skydiver. “I can confirm that the group will no longer do coordinated work on this,” Midtskogen said via email.

“I think all of us feel confident about the conclusion and won’t work more on this individually either – although here I can only speak for myself. It was shown how a pebble packed in the chute could reappear well above the chute, and there is no strong evidence against a small size, so this has been easy to accept.”While this rock ended up not likely to be a meteoroid, Midtskogen added, the crowdsourcing and interest in the video was overwhelming and encouraging.“So, no meteorite, but a good story,” he said good-naturedly in his email to Universe Today. “Our mood is still good, and we talk about putting up a plaque at ground zero: “On 17th June 2012 a pebble fell here, witnessed by 6 million people on YouTube”. Additionally, the skydiver, Anders Helstrup, seemed relieved more than anything.“After all we seem to have found a more natural explanation to the video,” he told Universe Today. “And that is a good thing. I see that this had to have been MY mistake – packing a pebble into my parachute (I always pack myself). Our intention was to find out more and this way let the story out in the public, for people to make up their own minds.

This became way bigger than I had imagined.”In the end, while this story was not as fantastic as it might have been, it shows the beauty of crowdsourcing and using science to analyze a puzzle. And I readily admit to being overly enthusiastic in about this being a meteoroid, but I have to agree with Phil Plait who may have said it best I would have loved to have this to have been a real meteoroid, but I’m glad this worked the way it did. I couldnt believe how much people wanted to believe this was a meteorite. Many lost all reason and just went with the claims (and sometimes adding a few of their own).Im not sure why this particular event caused so many people to immediately believe quite solidly that this was something other than what it was.There was literally no evidence to suggest it was a meteor. As far as I remember the only ‘expert’ opinion was from a Geologist who reckoned ‘it looked like a Meteorite’.