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Lance Barber, Aurora, Colorado.
Retired Colo. Dept. of Transportation Highway Engineer and Systems Manager, 30 years.
Volunteer Manager of Collections and Curator of Military Aircraft Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, CO; and past foundation and operating board member.

Restorations-team projects: B-29, F-86H, EB-57E, F-4C, RB-52B, RF-84K, UC-45, H-21C, F-100D

Crew Chief: F-100D/H-21C

Past Vice Pres., Board Member, and Special Projects Mgr:Colorado Aviation Historical Society
Life Member, USAF Association.
Email: collections at wingsmuseum.org
Wiki interests: Aviation, space, Mopars, railroads, museums, military history, hist. societies
Other interests: computers, skiing, hunting, firearms, boating, B-52 at AFA

WP and watch links

• WP:COLO | WP:COLO Changes || WP:AIR | WP:AVIATION | WP:AV Changes || WP:TWP | WP:TWP Changes | WP:UKR Changes | WP: Museums

Edits overview

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[edit] Membership

[edit] New articles I created

• Air Services Museum <initial article, museum closed>
• Colorado Aviation Historical Society <phase 1 done>
• Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame <phase 1 done>
• CAHS AvAr Program <Phase 1>
• ColoAvAr Discussion Page <start>
• Lowry Heritage Museum <back burner> large project
• Platte Valley Airpark <done>
• Peterson Air and Space Museum <phase 1 done>
• Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society <phase 1 done>
• Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum <phase 1 done>
• Vintage Aero Flying Museum <phase 1 done>
• Spirit of Flight Center phase 1 done
• Kansas Aviation Museum phase 1 done
• National Atomic Museum phase 1 done
• List of surviving B-52 Stratofortresses phase 1 and 2 done
• 13th Space Warning Squadron‎ phase 1 and 2 done
• 460th Space Wing <Done... for now>
• American Aviation Historical Society intro only
• Eldorado Air Force Station intro only
• Air Force National Security Emergency Preparedness Agency phase 1
• Air Forces Northern National Security Emergency Preparedness Directorate phase 1
• AEROS (satellite)
• Big Bird (satellite)
• 120th Fighter Squadron <back burner>
• Project High Wire <back burner>
• Chrome Dome
• Aeros (disambiguation)
• Mullicoupe completed18 Sep 07
• 566th Information Operations Squadron
• List of Sabre and Fury units in US military
• ABM-1 Galosh
• Galoshes
• Utah Aviation Hall of Fame
• Geneva Basin Ski Area
• Museum of Aerospace Medicine
• Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad
• Fort Collins Museum and Discovery Science Center

.............Phase 2 is expansion and more photos

[edit] Major update projects

• WikiProjects: Colorado and Space -- admin, processes, and cleanup
• Boilerplate (rocketry) <add all sections, photos, links, categories,95% done>
• Lowry Air Force Base, total rewrite is being prepared, no ETA
• B-52 Stratofortress trivia 85% done
• KB-29 <major clean up done>
• Consolidated B-24 Survivors <major cleanup done>
• Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum < major cleanup done >, < need detailed aircraft history on selected airacraft, eg. F-100D, TBD>
• Stanley Aviation phase 1
• F-86 Sabre

• Auxilary Air Fields ^{[1] [2]}

[edit] New update projects- museums and railroads

• Colorado Railroad Museum
• Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad
• Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
• Georgetown Loop
• Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway
• Royal Gorge Route Railroad
• ---
• List of museums in Colorado
• List of Historical Societies

[edit] New railroad articles

• Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad‎

[edit] New missile articles

• ABM-1 Galosh
• ABM-3 Gazelle^[3] (coming soon), and
• ABM-4 Gorgon^[4] (coming soon).

[edit] Regular Update/Editing Projects

• B-29 Superfortress "T-Square-54" history and personal account <Done>
• B-52 Stratofortress <tweeking and photos - getting there>
• NASA's 008 NB-52B <update to remove Stub status - in progress>
• Century aircraft <back burner, TBD>
• F-100 Super Sabre <some cleanup done>
• F-101 Voodoo
• F-102 Delta Dagger <citation work>
• F-104 Starfighter
• F-105 Thunderchief
• F-106 Delta Dart
• Mister Mulligan and Monocoupe 90
• Project Mercury... Project Gemini... Project Apollo Manned Orbital Laboratory
• Ejection capsule
• 140th Wing
• ......
• Aviation archaeology <80% Done>
• NORAD <80% done>
• Buckley Air Force Base
• Cheyenne Mountain <80% done>
• .......
• ALGOL <TBD>
• Algorithm design <started, added sections, internal/external links, cateogories; done for now.>
• FORTRAN <TBD>
• Highway transportation <back burner>
• Remote viewing

[edit] Updates/Edits to autos

• Chevrolet
• Chevrolet Camaro
• Cheyenne Mountain
• Chrysler 300
• Chrysler LeBaron
• Chrysler Town and Country (pre-1990)
• Chrysler Valiant
• DeSoto
• Dodge
• Dodge Charger
• Dodge Colt
• Dodge Magnum
• Plymouth (automobile)
• Plymouth Barracuda
• Plymouth Belvedere
• Plymouth Fury
• Plymouth Valiant
• Plymouth Voyager
• Pontiac

[edit] Partial LIST of edited articles

13th Space Warning Squadron 21st Space Wing 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group 380th Air Expeditionary Wing 432d Wing 460th Space Wing A-001 A-002 A-004 A-101 A-10 Thunderbolt II A-5 Vigilante AEROS (satellite) AccesRail Adam A500 Aeros Aeros (disambiguation) Air Force Space Command Air Services Museum Airline codes Alexander Aircraft Company Aluminum Overcast (B-17) American Aviation Historical Society Apollo 11 Apollo Command/Service Module Apollo abort modes Apollo program Apollo spacecraft Aviation archaeology Aviation archaeology/Archive2006 Aviation history B-18 Bolo B-1 Lancer B-24 Liberator B-25 Mitchell B-29 Superfortress B-29 Superfortress variants B-2 Spirit B-52 (disambiguation) B-52 Stratofortress B-52 Stratofortress trivia B-52 Units Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Balls 8 Beechcraft Model 18 Bell 47 Big Bird (disambiguation) Big Bird (satellite) Blue Gemini Bockscar Boeing B-17 Survivors Boeing B-29 Superfortress Survivors Boeing B-29 Survivors Boeing B-47 Stratojet Survivors Boeing E-767 Boeing KB-29 Boeing Stratojet Boeing Y1B-9 Boilerplate (rocketry) Brooklyn Historical Society Buckley Air Force Base C-5 Galaxy Cargo aircraft Century Series Cheyenne Mountain Chicago History Museum Clear Air Force Station Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame Colorado Aviation Historical Society Commemorative Air Force Consolidated B-24 Survivors Corona (satellite) Curtiss OX-5 Deep Impact (space mission) Distant Early Warning Line Divide and conquer algorithm Electronic system level Elrey Borge Jeppesen Enola Gay F-100 Super Sabre F-101 Voodoo F-101 Voodoo on display F-102 Delta Dagger F-104 Starfighter F-105 Thunderchief Fighter aircraft Fortran Frederick C. Bock GEOS General Dynamics F-111 Gillespie Field HH-60 Pave Hawk Have Gun — Will Travel Hexagon (disambiguation) IATA (disambiguation) IATA Delay Codes Idaho State Historical Society Indiana Historical Society International Air Transport Association International Air Transport Association airport code International Association of Travel Agents Network Ionosphere Jack Swigert

KB-29 KH-11 KH-12 KH-13 KH-5 KH-6 KH-7 KH-8 KH-9 Kansas Aviation Museum Kent Rominger Kepler Mission LAGEOS Launch escape system List of Apollo missions List of B-24 Liberator operators List of B-29 Superfortress operators List of Historical Societies List of IATA-indexed train stations List of Wings of the United States Air Force List of bomber aircraft List of intelligence gathering disciplines List of surviving A-26 Invader airframes List of surviving B-29 Superfortresses List of surviving B-52 Stratofortresses List of surviving CH-54 Tarhes Little Joe Lowry Air Force Base Manned Orbital Development System Manned Orbital Laboratory Manned Orbiting Laboratory March Air Reserve Base Marcopolo Massachusetts Historical Society Mol National Atomic Museum New-York Historical Society New England Air Museum New Jersey Historical Society North American Aerospace Defense Command Northrop YF-23 Ohio Historical Society Open Source Intelligence Operation Paperclip Oregon Historical Society Otis Air National Guard Base PAVE PAWS Pad Abort Test-1 (Apollo) Pad Abort Test-2 (Apollo) Pad abort test Pave Tack Peterson Air and Space Museum Pima Air & Space Museum Platte Valley Airpark Plymouth Barracuda Project Apollo Project Gemini Project Mercury Pueblo, Colorado Pueblo County, Colorado Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society Pueblo Memorial Airport Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum Pueblo Weisbrod Aviation Museum QTV QTV (disambiguation) Remote viewing Republic P-47 Survivors Robert Six STS-38 Samos (satellite) Schweizer Aircraft Schweizer SGS 2-33 Scout (rocket) Spacecraft Spirit of Flight Center Spy satellite Template method pattern Tennessee Air National Guard Titan (rocket family) Vintage Aero Flying Museum Whirlybirds Wings Over Gillespie Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum Wright Glider

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Emblems and badges

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Photos, drawings, emblems

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NASA retires Balls 8^[5]

Test -Merit Badge numbers.^[6]

Test change of colors:^{[citation needed]} Jay Robin orange grass grape lemon shoes grapefruit elephant

[edit] References: Links and Citing ref books -- sample

• Book citaton- Knaack ^[7]
• Book ref - Birdsall ^[8]

• Book citaton - Yenne ^[9]

• Book - McCracken ^[10]

• Book - Dorr ^[11]

• Periodical citation-Almanac - equicpment ^[12]

• Periodical citation-Almanac - Gallery details ^[13]

• AFA Mag June 07^[14]

• AFA Mag December 07^[15]

• In 1988, Jack Swigert was nominated and inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame.^[16]

[edit] Ref section

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1. ^ Airfields Database, Colorado
2. ^ Freemans database
3. ^ Wonderland.org: ABM-3
4. ^ Wonderland.org: ABM-4
5. ^ NASA's B-52B Retires
6. ^ New Compostite Materials merit badge. US Scouts.org. Retrieved on 2006-01-18.
7. ^ Knaack, Marcelle Size (1988). Post-World War II bombers, 1945-1973. Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-16-002260-6. 
8. ^ Birdsall,Steve (1977). B-29 Superfortress - in action (Aircraft No. 31). Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., Michigan. p.11
9. ^ Yenne, Bill (1985). The Encyclopedia of US Spacecraft. Exeter Books (A Bison Book), New York. ISBN 0-671-07580-2. p.82 Key Hole
10. ^ McCraken, Daniel D. (1965(3rd printing 1968)). A Guide to FORTRAN IV Programming. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. LCCCN 65-26848.  Chapter __, p. __
11. ^ Dorr, Robert F. (1993). F-86 Sabre Jet--History of the Sabre and FJ Fury. Motorbooks Int'l Publishers, Osceola, WI.. ISBN 0-87938-748-3. Chapter 4: Foreign Sabres, pp. 65-96
12. ^ Mehuron, Tamar A., Assoc. Editor (May 2007). "2007 USAF Almanac - Equipment". AIR FORCE MAGAZINE, Journal of the Air Force Association 90 (5): p.62. Air Force Association. ISSN: 0730-6784. All figures.
13. ^ Young, Susan H.H., Staff Editor (May 2007). "2007 USAF Almanac - Gallery of USAF Weapons". AIR FORCE MAGAZINE, Journal of the Air Force Association 90 (5): pp.135-158. Air Force Association. ISSN: 0730-6784. All active aircraft, missiles, ordinance, and satellites.
14. ^ Schanz, Marc V.., Assoc. Editor (June 2007). "Life with the C-5". AIR FORCE MAGAZINE, Journal of the Air Force Association 90 (6): p.59-60. Air Force Association. ISSN: 0730-6784. 
15. ^ Schanz, Marc V.., Assoc. Editor (December 2007). "Aerospace World: G-15s to Get New Radars". AIR FORCE MAGAZINE, Journal of the Air Force Association 90 (6). Air Force Association. ISSN: 0730-6784. 
16. ^ Holmes, Charles W., Editor, Honoree Album of the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame, The Colorado Aviation Historical Society, 1999, Audubon Media Corp., Audobon, IA.

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Cassini-Huygens
Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion.jpg An artist's concept of Cassini
Organization	NASA/ESA/ASI
Major contractors	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mission type	Fly-by, orbiter, and lander
Flyby of	Venus, Earth, Jupiter
Satellite of	Saturn
Orbital insertion date	1/1/1001
Launch date	October 15, 1997
Launch vehicle	Titan IV-B/Centaur launch vehicle
Mission duration	1-2-56 to 2-3-56
NSSDC ID	1997-061A
Webpage	Cassini-Huygens Home
Power	30-100 watts

AAAAAAAAAAAAA
Launch
Date	14 February 2008
Vehicle	Delta II
Site	Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 2
Orbit characteristics
Type	geo-synch
Altitude	21414
Inclination	1234234
Repeat cycle	134124
Swath width	13241
Equatorial crossing time	1234
Mass	1432

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Model	F-106	XB-70
Speed	Mach 2	Mach 3
Altitude	100 km	110 km

[edit] Unit Locations ... samples

Section information from USAF 2007 Almanac ^[1]

For more details on this topic, see Wikipedia:Harvard referencing.

For more details on this topic, see USAF 2007 Almanac.

• Davis-Monthan AFB and AFRC, AZ -- 305th RQS
• Kadena AB, Japan -- 18th Wing
• NAS Keflavik, Iceland -- 85th Group
• Kirtland AFB, NM -- 150th Wing
• Kulis ANGB, AK -- 176th Wing
• RAF Lakenheath, UK -- 48th Fighter Wing
• Moffett Field ANG, CA -- 129th EQW
• Moody AFB, GA -- 347th Rescue Wing
• Nellis AFB, NV -- 53rd Wing
• New York ANG, Francis S. Gabreski Arpt, NY -- 106th RQW
• Patrick AFB and AFRC, FL -- 920th RQG

[edit] Pipe to section within an article

Further information: Helicopters in popular culture#Bell 47

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