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  • TINKER HISTORY: Douglas C-54 Skymaster

    The Douglas Aircraft Corporation C-54 “Skymaster” was a four-engine cargo and troop transport built around a high-aspect ratio wing with conventional tail unit featuring a single rudder. The low-wing configured aircraft sat on retractable tricycle landing gear. Building upon the success of the

  • Director of AF Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate visits Tinker

    Brig. Gen. Gregory Gutterman, director of the Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate, visited Tinker to participate in a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Mission Support Office, Bldg. 4001.The ribbon cutting ceremony marked a significant achievement for the AFSAC Directorate

  • Summer Camp registration begins April 3

    Summer is a time for warm weather, cool friends, and lots of fun activities. Kids everywhere await the summer anxiously from their classrooms all year long. When that final bell rings, it’s time for months of fun and play.One place for summer fun is the Tinker Youth Center. This summer program

  • Reserve White, Gold blow out opponents

    The Spring Flag Football League recently kicked off and will continue through mid-May with games every Tuesday at the field north of the dorms.Defense was the key March 7 as all four games ended in shutouts.Perennial powerhouses Reserve White and Reserve Gold blanked each of their opponents with

  • Basketball playoffs blast off

    The first week of the intramural basketball playoffs contained few surprises as the top-ranked teams advanced to the next round.In three evenings of games last week, undefeated 366th MPC beat 72nd Operations Support Squadron (2-9 regular season). The 72nd Med Group (10-1) toppled CGOC.Also advancing

  • Russell Lathrop: A Tinker legacy from barnstorming days to KC-135s

    Russell “Russ” Lathrop was 9 years old when aviation lifted his feet off the ground — literally and figuratively — in the middle of the Great Depression.His next-door neighbor in the southern Oklahoma town of Ardmore was Ben Scott. He was a mechanic and aviator who flew out of the local sod-runway

  • TINKER HISTORY: Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress”

    The Boeing B-17 “Flying Fortress” was a four-engine, heavy bomber produced for the Army Air Corps prior to and during World War II. The aircraft was used in all theaters of the war with particularly heavy use in the European campaign.According to official Tinker history documents, the Oklahoma City

  • AIR FORCE HISTORY: The Rosies

    Life in America was transformed by the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. The leader of those attacks, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, famously concluded, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Rarely has someone in the moment so perfectly

  • Ogden ALC completes F-35 milestone

    The Ogden Air Logistics Complex accomplished another “first” in support of the F-35 Lightning II program. A U.S. Navy F-35C – carrier variant – was delivered to Edwards AFB, Calif., on March 13, making the Ogden ALC the first maintenance depot to receive, modify and deliver all three F-35 variants.