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This was my first concert! I totally remember all of it.

I did the last electrical maintenance on the last 30’ SRB in service in depoe bay. Despite the 6v-92 I LOVED that shoe!

I worked here in the early 90's. This is exactly how it was. I enjoyed working there.

I'm from Wilmington,. When Clinton County AFB closed, it almost killed Wilmington. Then Airborne brought it back.

I was on the 82324 Point Grey in 1962. The 82 in 1991 was 30 years old, so much for the modern U.S.C.G!

In March of 2021 (when I was working at DHL's CVG hub) a couple of those old ABX C-containers randomly showed up at a warehouse one day. No idea where they came from.

I worked for Airborne from 1977 thru 1982. Holt Webster, the founder of Airborne Freight Corporation, was a brilliant man and engineer. Whenever I met him on the way into the office he would say Good Morning and call me by my first name. I wasn't special, he was simply an outstanding leader. I knew Bob Cline and Roy Liljebeck, the 2 senior executives of the company and although buying Midwest Air Charter was novel and the airport it owned priceless, the aircraft that came along with that purchase were well beyond their useful economic life. I always had suspicions that the interests of the 2 senior executives were not exactly aligned with those of Holt Webster. I do know that both of them benefited significantly from annual stock options. When I heard the news that Airborne had been sold to DHL I was devastated. Many of my colleagues had dedicated most of their careers to building the backbone of Airborne's information system and the loss of that investment of lives was like having 30 friends on a plane that you heard had gone down with all hands lost. I am confident that this disaster was precipitated by Holt Websters death in 1992. Holt was a visionary who was driven by the desire to build and maintain something that was a benefit to all of Seattle, not simply the pocketbooks of the few. I have always regretting the loss to my co-workers when they were sold out to DHL. I have many fond remembrances of all of you who worked in IT back in the late 70's and early 80's. My warmest wishes to all of you.

That didn’t age well🤣😩

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I worked in the Seattle corporate office under Wendy McGraw from June 2000 to June 2001. I was the "Communications Specialist" who created the inner office newsletters. I thought I'd work there until I retired, but never got the chance because of the DHL takeover. I liked working there, but it seemed like the place was filled with freshly minted ladder-climbing MBA types. I was the first to be laid off when the DHL deal went down, but was quickly brought back as a temp worker to avoid paying me benefits. I finally got out of the corporate rat-race & went to work for the county driving a bus & playing music.

A man died after fire suppression foam overtook a hangar at Wilmington Air Park in Ohio on Sunday.

I was there. Rode our bikes to this concert

Awesome 👍

With today’s mass shootings & gun violence you’d never see a commercial like that despite it being in jest.

Sounds like when my wife tells me about her day. And my wife looks exactly like his

I was going to write that these people will have been replaced by robots but a few of them sounded like they'd already completed the process

This comment is from the designer of the flight control system for Eagle Eye. I was also the control station operator for all test flights so I know the entire history of this prototype. This video is actually a splice of several test operations, some in 1998 and some in 2000. I did the splicing but I have no idea how this video made it to the internet. The take-off is manual. The gear up sequence and airplane mode flyby are from 1998. Note the time tags from April 15 and again from April 23, 1998. However the landing sequence is an automatic landing demonstrated in 2000. (The landing gear was never retracted during year 2000 auto-land testing.) Note the presence of the tracking system on the tarmac at time 2:09. This landing was completely hands-off and the wind was 10 knots gusting to 15. Contrary to much of the information on the web, the Bell Eagle Eye first flew in July of 1993 not 1998 as is generally reported. The 1993 tests were helicopter mode only. Amazingly, the 1993 tests were conducted at the Bell facility in Fort Worth, TX on an old parking lot just yards from a public road. The FAA was aware of the tests but, in those days, the FAA did not really understand UAVs and did not have much to do with the industry. This would never be allowed today! The first aircraft experienced a hard landing on flight number 6. The swashplate flight loads were significantly more than predicted and, as a result, the all-electric actuators could not move at their full rate causing an instability during landing. Ironically, a newspaper article at the time misquoted the program manager and reported that the the actuator weight was too low. Obviously how much they weighed was not the issue but how fast they could drive the load. Most of the one-of-a-kind electronics were taken from the first prototype, installed in a second airframe and testing continued in early 1994 at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. Conversion to full airplane mode was achieved during this series of tests. An admiral who witnessed the first conversion to airplane mode made arrangements for the aircraft to be demonstrated at PAX River NAS in southern Maryland. This demonstration took place in June 1994. Over the next few years major improvements were made to the system including a completely new flight control computer and digital actuator drive unit. Autonomous capability was added if the form of a simple way-point to way-point flight plan capability. Altitude and airspeed changes were still manual at that time. These new capabilities were demonstrated in early 1998 at Yuma Proving Grounds under contract to the US Navy. Over 55 flight hours were logged during these test. Speeds up to 200 knots and altitudes exceeding 14,000 feet were demonstrated. Note that the same airframe which first flew in 1994 was used for this series of tests. Much of the internet video available comes from this timeframe. By then the aircraft had been designated TR911. This is probably why so many sources say that the first flight was 1998 although the same airframe had flown in 1994. Following the 1998 series of tests, the flight control laws were again upgraded to include the ability to automatically land on a ship at sea. Many hundreds of simulated landings were performed in the Bell Helicopter high fidelity simulator which included a NASA air wake turbulence model that simulated the airflow around a small combatant ship's hangar and superstructure. A patented mode of control was included as the basis for the automatic landing called RIV (Relative Inertial Velocity) mode - US patent 8,014,909. These capabilities were demonstrated in the spring of 2000 at Yuma. The system is highly automated but not AI. Not only is AI technology not necessary to such an algorithm, it is typically considered not certifiable by regulatory authorities. Generally an algorithm must be completely deterministic and 100% testable for certification. The requirement for the 2000 tests were 10 consecutive auto-lands within 3 feet of the target touch down point out of 30 attempts. Eagle Eye completed 10 out of the first 10 attempts and all were withing 10 inches of the designated touch-down point. This plus the hundreds of simulated ship-board landings gave the team confidence that tesging on a real ship would result in touch-down within 3 feet of the intended target. The same week that Eagle Eye demonstrated automatic landings in Yuma, the US Navy announced the winner of their Vertical Take-off UAV program. Eagle Eye was a competitor for this program but did not win. The Northrop Grumman Fire Scout system, later designated MQ-8, was selected. Plans to continue Eagle Eye testing aboard a Navy ship were called off following this announcement. It's interesting to note that the first automatic shipboard landing of Fire Scout did not occur until January, 2006 aboard the USS Nashville (LPD-13). Had testing continued on Eagle Eye, a shipboard landing would likely have occurred later in 2000. Another interesting fact is that the latest variant of Fire Scout (the MQ-8C) is based on a helicopter airframe from Bell (although not a tilt-rotor). The TR911 aircraft shown in this video which conducted all these tests from 1994 though 2000 is now in a museum at PAX River NAS, Maryland. It is painted in Coast Guard colors although it never flew with this paint job. A later prototype, the TR918, was to be a Coast Guard UAV aboard the new National Security Cutter as part of the Deepwater program. But that's a different story.

I work at that same airport but for Amazon now and I'll tell ya what Amazon don't even come close to what this company was. It's a shame what DHL did to them.

I'm not too tech savvy and figured this is the only way I can shoot you a message. A few of your uploads have me wondering if you'd be stationed at the air station in San Francisco the same time as my father, Sieg? Either way, cool videos.

I never served aboard the USS Midway , but do remember doing underway replenishments off the coast of Vietnam from the USS Taluga with her . 1969 - 1971 .

A fitting end for a warship! Certainly better than being sent to the wrecker's yard.

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It's a must see when you're in San Diego This ship is truly incredible You could literally take days walking this ship You get a real feel of the service members that served on the midway as you visit

technically it still exists under the DHL brand.

Too bad USS ENTERPRISE did not have the same fate.

😂 who? Lol

good work

She's done a good job but unfortunatly Moschitta does it better. If you slow it right down it's sounds a bit like gibberish.

That had to be Bud Holland behind the controls of that B-52. I've never seen any other B-52 pilot fly in such a reckless manner. The guy ending up killing himself and some other good men a few years later during a display at Fairchild AFB, WA when he tried to do a low level turn at much to steep an angle and ending up stalling the aircraft. The B-52 lost lift and crashed nose first into the ground right in front of a group of people watching, to include the family of a retiring pilot who happened to be on this flight.

I guess FedEx got the last laugh.

If this Point Class USCG boat was in SF after the Vietnam war, then it was never in Vietnam. All the point class boats were either left in Vietnam or transferred to the Philippine Navy.

Was on her 4 years, half in G-4 missil shop and 2 on the MAA force. Me and 2 others built the brig.

Hehe steam turbine is not much to look at, so a small reciprocating engine is shown lol

Was there 20years

R.I.P.

My dad always took me to Midway when I was a kid, amazing memories, I now live in northern Cali and I’m taking my girlfriend to the USS Hornet (Kearsarge) soon so I can share those memories I had as a kid with her

I did a year aboard Point Winslow (Humboldt Bay and Morro Bay). I can almost smell the exhaust through the video!

Look at this way, there is much more dignity in this than being cut in an Indian scrap yard.

VA 56 1975 to 1977, home sweet home

VA-56 Champs AT3 onboard Midway ‘77 to ‘79

Served on the grey Lady from 86-88 . ENFN Lionel Jackson .

As much as I admire the effort to show Hornet as a museum, Hornet is not a sister ship of Midway. Midway class includes FDR and Coral Sea only

Thanks for taking care of our former home, Midway Magic lives on. AT2 Stevens AIMD IM3 79-82

Fast Talking Clerk is More like Woody Woodpecker

Very good video. :)

I still like the 1945 version of the ship with 9 guns on each side, but i guess that was redundant since it would be terrifying if they lose a ship a very expensive one.

Thanks for posting as I was on the Point Glass and now its a Sea Scout boat!

My dad is in this video. He passed away in 1994 and I haven't heard is voice in a very long time. Thank you for posting this.

Chevey Chase? hahahaha