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17th SOS pays tribute to MC-130P retirement

Four MC-130P Combat Shadows taxi through the water arch after completing a final 4-ship formation flight Oct. 16, 2014. Over the next year, the MC-130P Combat Shadow aircraft in the Pacific will be replaced with the MC-130J Commando II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kristine Dreyer)

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17th SOS pays tribute to MC-130P retirement

Four MC-130P Combat Shadow aircraft perform an overhead break maneuver Oct. 16, 2014 at Kadena Air Base, Japan during a formation flight. The 17th Special Operations Squadron used the formation flight to pay tribute to the Combat Shadow as it begins retirement. The unit will transition to the MC-130J Commando II over the next year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kristine Dreyer)

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17th SOS pays tribute to MC-130P retirement

A MC-130P Combat Shadow crew and maintainers prepare to start engines before conducting a 4-ship formation flight Oct. 16, 2014 at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The formation flight marks the beginning of the retirement for the Combat Shadow in the Pacific, as the unit transitions to the MC-130J Commando II. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kristine Dreyer)

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Port Dawgs move M1 Abrams

Members of the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing monitor the offload of a M1 Abrams tank from a C-17 Globemaster III here, Sept. 26, 2013. The M1 tank offload took little time because of the communication and cooperation of the flight crew, 386th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron personnel, airfield management and the tank driver. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Christopher A. Campbell)

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Wright model "A" or "B" rear well on ground, Montgomery, Alabama, 1910

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The Wright's hangar or "airplane shed," in 1910

The Wright's hangar or "airplane shed," in 1910 on the site of the present Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama

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Wright Plane, Montgomery Alabama

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Orville Wright and his students at Montgomery, Alabama, 1910

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Planes at North Island, late summer 1913

Planes at North Island, late summer 1913. Left to right, S.C. #6 (Lt. Goodier in front); S. C. #2 (Lt. V. E. Clark in front); single surface Curtiss plane called "Julia" (last plane used by Curtiss to qualify students for F. I. A. license); Curtiss plane owned by Dr. Frank Bell; "grass cutters" of the Curtiss school.

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Second tractor type aircraft constructed by Curtiss.

Second tractor type aircraft constructed by Curtiss. The plane, not yet completed, was photographed at the Curtiss Hammondsport factory prior to delivery to Army as S. C. #22

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The figure in white is presumably Miss "Tiny" Broadwick

The figure in white is presumably Miss "Tiny" Broadwick, the first woman to make a parachute jump from an airplane. She jumped at North Island on 12 and 14 September 1914 from an Army Martin plane flown by Oscar Brindley.

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Second flying boat in Army, 1914

Second flying boat in Army, 1914. Included in group are Oscar Brindley, instructor; R. V. Morris, Curtiss test pilot; and Capts. J. C. Morrow and L. E. Goodier (latter at right)

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One of the first flights of a Jenny type aircraft at North Island, 1914

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Lt. L. E. Goodier, Jr.

Lt. L. E. Goodier, Jr., first student his aviator tests at Signal Corps Aviation Station, North Island, 14 February 1913, coming in for a landing in S.C. #2

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17th SOS pays tribute to MC-130P retirement

17th SOS pays tribute to MC-130P retirement

17th SOS pays tribute to MC-130P retirement

Port Dawgs move M1 Abrams

Wright model "A" or "B" rear well on ground, Montgomery, Alabama, 1910

The Wright's hangar or "airplane shed," in 1910

Wright Plane, Montgomery Alabama

Orville Wright and his students at Montgomery, Alabama, 1910

Planes at North Island, late summer 1913

Second tractor type aircraft constructed by Curtiss.

The figure in white is presumably Miss "Tiny" Broadwick

Second flying boat in Army, 1914

One of the first flights of a Jenny type aircraft at North Island, 1914

Lt. L. E. Goodier, Jr.

Goodier landing S.C. #2. North Island, summer 1914

First aerial bombing, North Island, summer 1914

Bomb explosion, August 1914

First Curtiss Jenny type at Hammondsport, N. Y. factory before delivery to Army

Wilbur Wright at Fort Meyer, July 27, 1909

Wilbur Wright at LeMans, France, 1908