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Then STFU. The rest of your statement is superflous bullshit with no real bearing on this discussion other than to massage your own ego. Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me.
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Inspected jet fuel storage tanks at King Salmon, Shemya and Elmondorf.
Shemya was a 4 hr flight from Anchorage on a 727 nalmed Tilly.
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Inspected jet fuel storage tanks at King Salmon, Shemya and Elmondorf.
Shemya was a 4 hr flight from Anchorage on a 727 nalmed Tilly. Tilly? That's silly.
I am always looking for factory wood stocks!
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Reves Aleution Airline, IIRC.
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I used work on a crane barge to deliver stuff to all those islands, Attu, Shemya when the B52 surveillance planes flew out of there. Attu was a Coast Guard Loran transmitter, we brought their annual supplies, mainly fuel.
Because it's so far from anywhere, everything the US military hauled in there since WW2 is still there...it's like a trip to a museum of incompleted military projects. Construction materials, vehicles, heavy equipment, wire, pipe, pallets of solidified cement, timbers, lumber, pumps, generators, quonset huts. I was out to Nikolski one time, before I debarked the plane I asked the copilot...where's the terminal?, he pointed to a wrecked airplane alongside the runway...he said that is it there, it's dry inside and they left some seats in it so you can relax until somebody comes. They will hear us take off, and somebody will come from 'town' to see if there is freight.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Reves Aleution Airline, IIRC. Reeves Aleutian Airways...on flights to the outer end of the chain, they flew Lockheed Electra's 188's, supposedly a controversial plane...but they had lots of power and could carry more ice than any other aircraft...so i was told.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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50 caliber beach on Shemya is where they dumped surplus ammo from WWII, I wish I took pictures.
Also saw a pod of Killer Whales hunting in the surf. Amazing.
The blue foxes own the island and all personel are required to show them respect.
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