Al Peffley

I recognized Alan Alda immediately by his trademark smile. Mike Farrell looks like he has morphed into a Pat Robertson family member ( projecting in the photo as a younger-looking Pat than today.) Wayne Rogers was replaced by Mike Farrell. Many of the original outdoor scenes were filmed in what is now Malibu Creek State Park (an old LA County ranch property). Bonnie and I saw, during our visit to the Reagan Ranch, the old rusted Dodge Power Wagon panel truck used as the set ambulance in the shows (that was left on the property after the series was completed.) M*A*S*H was a wonderful comedy show of the day. They made the Korean War airlift medics and field surgery mission theme look more light-hearted than it really was in the muddy and cold battlefields of Korea. We still enjoy watching M*A*S*H reruns. There are some "dark" US Army military humor spots in some of the episodes during its eleven seasons run on CBS from 1972-83.

The Korea fracture was a globally-created, color revolution war. Maybe some day the north and south Koreans will be healed, awakened, and reunited as one common North Asian culture and a prosperous people without the negative outside influences of the US CIA, CCP, USSR, the UN, and the Khazarian Mafia cabal. The South Koreans eventually prospered at a great price to their overall cultural and economic resources heritage.

Patrick Calkins

The TV show ran for eleven years. The war lasted three? South Korea is better off for it.

Bill Engelhardt

TSA security line at Sea-Tac Airport reaches 2.5 hours long, stretching inside parking garage 
-- KIRO TV, Sept. 19, 2022

.... brought to mind a time when air travel was, well, less fraught. 

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

To all my fellow pirates that live in the Tampa, Orlando area of Florida.  This storm, Ian, is going to be a whopper.  Stay safe!!!

Al Peffley

Thousands of flights have been cancelled or redirected due the hurricane in Florida. Don't get stranded...

My TSA comments in post #1661 still apply according to Pre-Check applications.

Ed Hesner

My wife & I have a son, daughter-in-law and 6 grandkids who live in Port Charlotte, Florida. Ian went right over the top of them yesterday and last night. I got a chance to talk to my son a little while ago. They've got a trashed yard, a blown over fence, a couple blown down trees, some significant roofing damage and a damaged vehicle, but, thank God, they're all ok, We worried about them all last night because there was no way to contact them, so we're sure glad to have been able to get ahold of them today.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Many of us who live in Florida were soooo lucky that the hurricane took a different direction.  The state of Florida is really prepared for these awful events.  Ed, I hope your family will soon recover and get back to enjoying this beautiful state.  It will come back!

Gregg Wilson

Cow - a - saki

Gregg Wilson

                  They call me Yama-hoppy

                                            (I'm on a roll.......)     

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

Good ones Greg!  I sure wouldn't want to be on the bike if that cow decided to start hopping around!

Virginia.....Great news to know you were passed by and all is well.  My heart goes out to all of those that are struggling so hard  to try and clean up from the storm and just survive.

Marty Ellison



Marty Ellison



Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Marty, I remember that dance in the ballroom.  I don't know who put it on, but I loved it.  I can remember that it seemed like such a fancy event.  We were all dressed up in suits and dresses.  Good memory indeed!

Tim Jones (Jones)

My Dad, Glenn was head of the Boeing Photo and Motion Picture Unit, 1938-1978.  He was involved in the flight test of everything Boeing built during those years. 

This photo is the first commercial landing at Bow Lake Airport, later called Seattle Tacoma International Airport.   Aboard this DC-3 mostly Port of Seattle dignitaries. October 31, 1944

Ronald Goodmansen

In 1949 when we built our house on 9th Place South, my parents didn't even know the airport existed.  Now the neighborhood is gone due to expansion of it.

Lori Madden (Snyder)

My dad build most of the houses from 14th up to 16th and from 157 to 160. Some of the houses were bought and moved while others were just destroyed for the expansion of the airport, I use to live on 157th at the top as it was a dead-end street.

James (Jim) Mathews

Yep,the house my dad grew up in and my home also on 168th gone with the SeaTac expansion. After living there until graduation in 1964 we grew so accustomed to the take offs and landings right over the house we rarely even noticed. Great memories with my 5 brothers in the old homestead.

Gregg Wilson

My dad was a captain with Northwest Airlines. We moved from Portland to Burien in late 1948. When they were building Seatac, my dad would take me out to the airport and we would go underneath the airport. On July 4, 1949, they officially opened the airport. Two carrier wings from Bremerton(?) flew over Seatac that day. I was impressed, to put it mildly.

Marty Ellison

Before they extended the runway, we would climb over the fence at the north end at night then lay out at the top of the bank just short of the pavement while the airplanes landed.  Their landing lights were bright.  As we got more nerve, we’d work our way out to the center line where the noise and sensation was terrifying.  The jets made the most noise but the DC6s left prop vortexes that kicked up dirt and grass long after they passed by.  Great entertainment, too bad kids today can’t get that close to the action.
 

Al Peffley

My memory of the north area of the main runway was when you could still drive through the runway tower lights maintenance road gates off of Des Moines Way and then sit amongst the scotch bloom bushes to watch the planes land from the north. A guy could sit and neck with the girlfriend of his choice or drink a beverage of your preference (sometimes not soda pop, ahem) and watch in your car the planes land at SEATAC. The King County Sheriff's patrol (before they had Port Police) would monitor the north area and come into the road to run young tresspassers like us from the airport's north landing lights "private" property area. If they caught you in there, they would give you a "warning" ticket and threaten to call your parents if you were under 21 years old. My mother got one call. I was told to stay out of there (she tried not to grin when she scolded me for trespassing in 1964.)  I was 18 years old and a senior at HHS. Brian and I once drag-raced our Chevy's at the Southern end road tunnel that we called the "Tubes". I broke a rear axle running slicks during the brief 1/4-mile contest (I remember winning the match by exiting the west end portal - see current day photo below). It was an expensive lark for me since I worked at a Sunnydale service station for low wages and my father passed away while I attended high school. Those were definitely different days. I did not attend the dance at the airport, but did attend several weekend college parties out at the Airport Holiday Inn when I later attended HCC in the late and mid-'60's (after I turned 21.) I never thought in those days that I would end up working in the Aerospace Industry for almost 40 years...

"Meet you at the Tubes", Brian?

It was good to contact Brian again through this website several months ago. I enjoyed our brief talk after all of these years.

Al

Lori Madden (Snyder)

I moved to 157th in 1955 from West Seattle as soon as my dad finished our house. It was before there was a fence around the airport and only one runway. I remember running across the runway with my brother and sister to get to Lewis & Clark Theather.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

I remember pasturing horses not far from the tunnels.  We used to ride our horses up there when they were expanding the airport.....until we also got kicked off the runway.

Gregg Wilson

Ask ANY astronomer. "What is the black material?"

Congruent with: "Why is deuterium oxide toxic?"

Al Peffley

Very cool looking [enhanced] galaxy picture or graphic, Gregg. I liked working with most of the people that I met at NASA. Bonnie and I always get a laugh out of the movies and TV shows when they add "sounds" in the simulation of outer space events. I enjoyed reading your book.

I worked on manned space, launch systems, on-orbit (in situ) robotic maintenance vehicles, and advanced satellite projects for NASA and USAF in the mid-1980's and '90's. We are very dependent as humans on our earth's environment to perform normal body functions and health mantenance. Sun storms emit harmful radiation particles on unprotected human bodies in space suits or space transportation transfer/orbit vehicles. The Apolo, Skylab, STS Space Shuttle spacelabs, ISS and unmanned probe programs have all collected a lot of data on the radiation effects on astronauts with extended stays in low earth orbit (LEO) and Moon visit missions. We designed "Safe Haven" capsule chambers with hollow walls that contained heavy water to shield long-duration space flight astronaughts from radiation effects caused by the sun and nuclear propulsion engines on proposed Earth to Mars transfer vehicles. Lead walls were not as effective against in situ radiation as the heavy water and composite metal walls with the types of radiation recorded on US-built manned LEO platforms. The only manned space program that I did not work on was Skylab (last mission photo from Wikipedia is shown below), but I did meet one of the astronauts (Bill Pogue) who spent an extended stay time on the Skylab on-orbt platorm, Mission SL-4 (1973-74). I met Bill Pogue while working on a Space Exploration Initiative program during the 1980's. I also worked  on an Advanced R&D NASA/USAF Delta Clipper Single Stage To Orbit Launcher project with McDonell Douglas and Boeing at Huntington Beach with Charles "Pete' Conrad, briefly in the early and mid-1990's. Pete was also a crew member(Mission Commander) on the Skylab SL-2 Mission. Pete was also on the Apollo 12 Mission to the Moon in 1969. Buzz Aldrin (of Apollo 11 fame) was more of a agressive type of personality than Pete or Bill (my impression after meeting and talking with each one of them.) I had the professional opportunitIes of a work lifetime that I would have never imagined while attending HHS and HCC. Buzz called me the "Coster" because I performed Life Cycle Cost analyses while working in Finance and System Engineering disciplines at Boeing S&C , McD, NA Rockwell, and LTV. God was good to me and my family over my aerospace career tenure. Here is a website description hyperlink of Skylab that seems pretty true to the program's history and source of the public domain photo from NASA archives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

Changing (enhanced) Look, deep space quasar image from 2017 [Hubble?] scans.

Interesting stuff. I see that UFO's are in the news again.

Al

Gregg Wilson

Hi Al,

The black material is deuterium where it is polydeuterium. The photograph is real. A very major portion of the galaxy is polydeuterium. Deuterium is NOT an isomer of hydrogen. It is a separate element and should be #2 in the Periodic Table.

It does not have an open base proton, so it does not give off light (or any other radiation).

Instead, it combines with itself. All planets are originally formed as a polydeuterium globe. Outside radiation then causes radioactive decay on the globe. That is how ALL other elements are formed. So our normal matter Earth has a polydeuterium core, which is radioatively decaying on its surface. Hence volanoes, earthquakes, and more normal matter.

I don't know about UFOs. We were visited long ago by predecessors, who established the human race.