The Spitten Kitten's Lair, 56-0461 and 59-0002, 57-2545 [Mike "Lugnuts55"
collection submitted 27 Mar 2009]
Over Mt. Rushmore, credited to TSgt William Weeks
Pilots View submitted by Col Bob "Buzz" Sawyer
Lawrence C Huseman, Jr, submitted
by his son Pete, Aug 99
3 photos from Scott Miller. 2 taken in
Hahn AB, Germany Oct 1975, only "six" Europe deployment we've heard of
so far. UPDATE to the above statement, 6 Apr 99:
Found a photo of the 456 FIS at Sembach in
1967.
Submitted by Gaylord
Ellerman, 21 Jan 2001
A Series by John
Primozich, Crew
Chief, 5th FIS, 1959-1963. Read about
John's feelings of the F-106 at the time.
0006 being transported
001, 0012, 0013, 236, Drag Chute installation,
main tire change, cover of a 1961 Minot Guide book
The pilot in the picture is Capt. Mike (Rat) Hampshire. It was taken during red flag in
1981, he is onboard of 60460 which is now of course the display bird at Minot AFB.
Also the pilot in the first picture that I sent you was Capt. Randy Hardy. It was also
taken at the same red flag deployment. Also the other is one more of the group shot
that I have sent a couple before. The interesting thing here is that it was taken
just past where the 5th ramp area was and just coming into the 5th bomb wing area.
A couple other notes about some of the pictures sent yesterday. The alert picture is
of the 5TH Fighter Alert Barns in 1981, we had 4 pods, no particular use order. The
picture of the J75 burner was taken at the engine shops test cell. No jet just the
engine, the rings are really noticeable in that shot that is why I kept it. I will
send more pictures later, and also as I learn how to better work this scanner I may from
time to time send a duplicate, it will be just because I feel it is a better picture to
have. I mentioned to you do you have any more pictures of jets from the 318th.
In particular I am looking for any pictures of 90059,90110,90108. I wanted to give
you a brief explanation of the jet with its nose gone. The acrft is 90010, the pilot was
then Maj. Paul Norton, he was also one of our FCF pilots. Anyway he was up with, as
in the picture, Capt. Randy Hardy who was flying 70236. For some reason coming out of a
cloud or something they got into each other. 010 obviously had tremendous damage to
the nose and past area. 236 had some damage to one of its elevons, both somehow returned
to base. When I was out at PDM in 1983 during a tour of the facility. One of the
Conair guys said that some of the MA-1 boxes were actually ingested into the
engine. How it kept from foding out is a question. Anyway Maj Norton stuck
with it and brought it home. This happened in mid 1980. 70236 went right to
pdm for depot maint, and for some reason after that it was sent to the 87th FIS at KI .010
sat in the hanger for around a year or so. Mostly used as a can bird and really
looked like shit. But finally the folks higher up decided to fix her up again.
The crew chief was a fellow by the name of Dan Ringo. A crew was sent in to fix a
temp nose, and a lot of man hours getting her ready for a FCF. The picture of 010
with the chute out is actually after its first flight (FCF) from its mid air crash.
The pilot was Capt. Bob Letourneau who later became the det CO at Loring
AFB. TSgt Rich Davis
5th FIS painted by Jerry Roth
Old Style 5th FIS Shoulder
Patch submitted by kgandcats@msn.com
Nov 2003. The writer (no name) writes "I believe it to be the rarest
of all of the 5FIS patches out there. It is from my father in-laws
original uniform that he wore in the late 50's/early 60's."
Memorial service for Capt. Wendt, the pilot killed in the crash of 59-0013, Submitted by Ed Glenn 1 Mar 2004
5th FIS Sixes in formation. Commander was LtCol Broughton. Year
unknown
