At MANAS, there is a huge 'boneyard' of abandoned Russian aircraft. During our Humvee tour, they drove us through the boneyard. Wow. One free tour souvenir to the first person to correctly identify the aircraft in this picture via comment on this blog....
At more and more airbases, they're utilizing companies that provide falcons to keep the population of other birds away from the flight line. We got the grand tour of one such facility at MANAS. Here is Matt hoping the falcon won't chew his nipples off.
At more and more airbases, they're utilizing companies that provide falcons to keep the population of other birds away from the flight line. We got the grand tour of one such facility at MANAS. Here is Matt hoping the falcon won't chew his nipples off.
Here we are with the KC-135 Refueling Wing crew. They gave us a great tour of the KC-135, the jet that carries fuel and refuels other aircraft IN FLIGHT.
Those C-17's are monster planes.
Little did we know that just a few hours later, we'd be flying in one, all to ourselves, strictly for the purpose of moving us from Kyrgyzstan to Afghanistan.....
Stay tuned....
Stay tuned....
God bless the Internet. Is it an Antonov An-2?
ReplyDeletehmdngr wins - it is indeed an Antonov AN-2, and they had probably about 20 of 'em there in the boneyard. What a sight! So now I just need to figure out who hmdngr is....
ReplyDeleteI didn't see this comment before i posted mine....but you know who I am :)
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