KYSS FM » airplanes http://kyssfm.com Sat, 18 May 2013 17:47:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Fire Fighting Neptune Aviation Has a New Contract With USFS http://kyssfm.com/fire-fighting-neptune-aviation-has-a-new-contract-with-usfs/ http://kyssfm.com/fire-fighting-neptune-aviation-has-a-new-contract-with-usfs/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:42:13 +0000 Alan K http://kyssfm.com/?p=140538 This is some good news for some good people. The U.S. Forest Service has renewed it’s contracts with Neptune Aviation Services, Inc. Neptune will fly six P2Vs and one jet-powered BAe-146 under the contract renewals to help fight forest fires this year

]]> http://kyssfm.com/fire-fighting-neptune-aviation-has-a-new-contract-with-usfs/feed/ 0 BAe-146 water drop (Photo courtesy Neptune Aviation) Merry Christmas Micronesia http://kyssfm.com/merry-christmas-micronesia/ http://kyssfm.com/merry-christmas-micronesia/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:33:07 +0000 Alan K http://kyssfm.com/?p=115343 How about a cool story for Christmas from half way around the world? I saw this article in Airman Magazine.

For children living on the islands in Micronesia, Santa doesn’t deliver presents on his sleigh pulled by flying reindeer or wear his iconic red and white suit; he airdrops them from a C-130 Hercules while wearing an Air Force flight suit.

]]> http://kyssfm.com/merry-christmas-micronesia/feed/ 0 Ready for takeoff (Photo courtesy DVIDSHUB/Flickr) Mystery Flyer Goes 4,500 MPH http://kyssfm.com/mystery-flyer-goes-4500-mph/ http://kyssfm.com/mystery-flyer-goes-4500-mph/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:09:08 +0000 Alan K http://kyssfm.com/?p=79510 A B-52 will be used to carry the X-51A aloft for the test.

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