Once a season FamCamp Management puts on a wonderful festival for the campers. Unfortunately, I was sick all day but everyone said the demonstrations, music, RV models, food and the dog show were really great. Sorry I missed it. Turn head sideways again.
Getting together to celebrate an anniversary. Any excuse for a pot luck party 
About 60 people attended although you could not tell it from the pictures.
Happy Hackers planned outing yesterday was rained out. We drove the 65 miles to Dogwood Lakes golf course before it started raining. Then it was would it or wouldn’t it and should we or shouldn’t we? When it started to come down in buckets (the same as raining cats and dogs). Anyway we went to an outlet mall on the way home and then stopped at the “Old Mexican” Restaurant for lunch.
After a really good Asian Buffet lunch at the Heritage (old Officers Club) where we were treated to a Base Briefing while we ate, we toured the Physiological Training Center where we had the physiological effects of high altitude (lack of oxygen) and “G” forces explained to us.
In the high altitude chamber anyone likely to be flying at high altitude experience its effects and learn how to recognize and counter those effects.
In the “Barnay” chair we were shown how centrifical force disorients the senses. Spinning (even at a really slow speed) in one direction when stopped gets one to think that they are going in the opposite direction even though they are not moving. This confusion, of course, makes it difficult to pilot a plane.
F-15 that shot down a Mirage during the Gulf War
Tour Group watching the sidewinder loading demonstration
Sidewinders on a carrier
Sidewinder on the launch rack of an F-15
Moved from non sewer to a sewer site. Eighteen days from sewer site to sewer site. Only had to dump the black water tank once (more on this later).
The F-22 has two rear stabilizers that are angled outboard from vertical. The F-15 has two rear vertical stabilizers. Both are twin engine jets. FYI the F-16 is a single engine jet with one rear vertical stabilizer. It is noted that the Navy and Marine Corps like two engines in jets so they still have one if the other quits – especially over water.
F-15
Info on the F-15 (turn head sideways)(I will figure this out eventually)
On February 13th, 40 of the FamCampers (one bus load) were given a tour of the Air Base with permission to take pictures. We saw the F-22, a weapons loading demonstration on an F-15, a high altitude chamber and a Barnay Chair. Somewhere in there we all had lunch at the Heritage Club (old Officers Club). It was a Chinese buffet and was excellent.
Short Gals getting ready to go on tour.
An F-22 Raptor. This war plane has a bigger than you would think bomb bay and two (one on each side) missile compartments (that white rack hold the missiles internally) and therefore the plane has a very small radar signature. In fact in all training exercises to date the plane has not been detected.
The Pensacola Opera put on a performance at the Recreation Center on 14 Feb. It was designed to educate grade schoolers about opera and I guess they thought we had regressed enough to make it worth while. Basically, audience participation directed the opera and the players improvised their roles and made up songs to keep the opera going. As opera terms were used a narrator explained their meaning. This was an interesting, fun and educational hour.
Soprano(highest female voice)(look up Base, Tenor, and Mezzo?)
EI EI O (The name we gave our opera which was situated on MacDonalds Farm.
Other side of Dick, the guy in the gray sweater.
Yesterday was a busy day. Breakfast at the Recreation Center in the AM and Opera in a Trunk in the PM and then I won $16 at Card Bingo.
Making Pancakes
Serving pancakes (turn your head sideways)
