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NF-4D Phantom N430FS of Tracor Flight System Inc. at MCAS Miramar. June 1993.
All Tracor F-4s were modified with IFR booms to accept USN and USAF refueling.
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"If you're going to drive that thing on the flight line, it needs a flag..."
Tracor Flight Systems N424FS (F-4D s/n 64-0965) and a 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge.
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North American F-100F-10-NA Super Sabre ’63-951 / SS’ (N26AZ) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 243-120 Built in 1957 for the United States Air Force with the full serial 56-3844 and flew with the Thunderbirds team between 1964 and 1968. She was sold to the Royal Danish Air Force in 1974 where she served as a TF-100F with the serial GT-844. In 1982 she was sold to Flight Systems Inc at Mojave and was initially registered as N3251X before becoming N415FS in 1983. Operated by Tracor Flight Systems from 1983 to 1997, she was based at Bournemouth in the UK, but flew on military contracts throughout Europe. Sold to Grecoair Inc in El Paso, Texas, in 1997 and reregistered as N26AZ, she was then repainted in New Mexico Air Guard colours with her correct serial ‘63844’. She joined the Collins Foundation in February 2011 and was immediately repainted in camouflage with the false identity ’63-951’ She now represents 56-3951 of the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron, part of the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing during the Vietnam War. It was the aircraft in which Colonel George “Bud” Day was shot down on 26th August 1967. He became a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and was later awarded the Medal of Honor for Valor while a prisoner in Hanoi. He flew in this aircraft during 2011, but has sadly since passed on. She is seen on static display at the 2019 Wings over Houston Airshow. Ellington Airport, Houston, Texas. 19th October 2019
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9/11 Conspiracy - The Israeli Art Students

In January 2001 the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency started receiving unusual reports from its field offices all over America. Young Israelis, it was being submitted, were claiming to be art students and touring the country offering their work for sale. Unusually there seemed to be a large number of DEA Agents and other senior federal officials who were approached at their private addresses and offered specials deals on this artwork at the front door. Reports were also submitted by DEA offices, defence agencies and law enforcement facilities. The students, it appeared, only wanted to sell their art to top secret facilities or members of staff at their homes.

9/11 Conspiracy - Just the known facts The DEA noted the emerging pattern, which began to include FBI agents, and concluded that the DEA appeared to have been targeted in what was called an 'organised intelligence gathering activity.' By nobody understood why, or for whom it was being carried out. Further reports came in throughout the first six months of 2001 from over forty U.S. cities and more than one-hundred and thirty separate incidents of 'art student encounters,' as they were known, were documented involving the U.S. Marshall Services, the ATF, the US Air Force, the Secret Service, the FBI and the DEA themselves. Some of the students were seen sketching the inside of federal buildings after they had gained access to innocently sell pictures to employees. Others were found to have photographs of individual federal agents and one had a computer printout of DEA groups. On many occasions the students visited facilities and agencies so secret that they were not even known to the American public. These are located in areas without street names and with only unidentified, discrete buildings. This confirmed to U.S. authorities that information had already been gathered beforehand and that there was a major infiltration being attempted. One of the young students was discovered to have bank receipts close to $200,000 which he claimed to have been the product of art sales. One of the groups, it was later discovered, had lived for some time in the small town of Hollywood, Florida, close to Mohammad Atta. In March 2001 the CIA issued a warning to all federal employees about the students and informed them that two had been arrested for trespassing and then found to have counterfeit work visas and green cards. Immediately after the warning officials began dealing more aggressively with the students. According to one account, one-hundred and forty Israeli nationals were detained or arrested between March 2001 and Sept. 11, 2001. Many of them were deported. None of the students were enrolled in the art colleges they claimed to be and some of those did not even exist. At the time the media were generally led to believe that the students were Arabs posing as Israelis and looking for potential targets. Incredibly the story died and was rarely even mentioned. However, after 9/11 reporter Carl Cameron did start investigating the story and was told by one U.S. Intelligence Officer that the art students were a spy-ring who were possibly observing Al- Qaeda members during the months leading up to September 11. But he was also told, quite abruptly, that 'evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence gathered as it is classified information.' Cameron's explosive story was then scuttled by the major news networks, as their sources inside the Justice Department and the FBI laughed it off as fantasy, and it then died in his arms. It would only resurface later in Europe. However, inside the DEA they knew they had a major problem. The fact that foreign nationals had the home addresses of their agents was only the start of it. The Israeli Embassy, for their part, denied everything. Spokesman Mark Reguev (who later lied about the Dancing Israelis) said; 'No American official or intelligence agency has complained to us about this. This story is nonsense. Israel does not spy on the United States.' There are a number of theories as to what the Israeli students were actually doing. One is that they were trying to infiltrate a known ecstasy drug smuggling ring being run by Israeli nationals. Another is that Mossad were simply training a new group of recruits in field operations. Both of which would seem unlikely. However yet another suggestion is that they were simply a smoke-screen. A cover for the real operation.

Read for yourself... In May 2000 the Lower Manhattan Cultural Arts Programme, who occupied floors ninety and ninety-one of the World Trade Centre Tower One, invited an Israeli Art Project known as Gelatin to share building space with them. Fourteen art students then moved into the ninetieth floor, where they set up tents, and were issued with construction worker passes which gave them access to the trade areas of the buildings. The group of fourteen then created a project known as The B-Thing which involved removing a window on the ninetieth floor and installing a temporary balcony. That was about it. Just a small, wooden balcony which was the photographed from a rented helicopter. In August 2001 Gelatin published a booklet describing Project-B which included some text and obviously many behind the scenes photographs. In some of these photographs the artists are pictured clearly wearing repelling harnesses and there are fixed abseiling ropes hanging from the ceiling. Project-B did not involve anybody climbing down the building. In another photograph rows and rows of boxes can been seen lined along a rear wall with the mark BB 18 stamped on each one. Product BB 18 are fuse holders that can be used for demolition charges. Why would art students need them for their project?

What were they doing in the Twin Towers prior to 9/11? Throughout the booklet all of the art students are only pictured facing away from the camera, although not exactly concealing their identities. Or, at least, not very well because one of them has been identified as Hanan Serfaty, an Israeli military intelligence officer and bomb expert. It was Serfaty who rented two Hollywood apartments close to Mohammad Atta and four of the other named suspects. And it turned out to be Serfaty who was found to have moved nearly $200,000 around during the first quarter of 2001 and explained it away as the proceeds from successful art sales. This is not a conspiracy theory. These are the facts and are easy to check for yourselves. We don't know what caused the collapse of the Twin Towers. But we do know what did not. So research Project B by the Gelatin Art Group and see for yourselves. Finally, just to give you one more thing to think about, but it is just really a detail that may prove important one day. Or may not.

BB 18 fuse holders on the ninetieth floor of the World Trade Centre Those BB 18 fuse holders are supplied by the Littel Fuse Company in Chicago, a subsidiary of Tracor Company, a Government contractor based in Austin Texas. Tracor also owned a company called Vitro, formerly known as the KellX Corporation and now known as Halliburton. The company of the former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, and the company who made and $40 Billion profit on the Iraq War alone. So now we have WTC7, the Twin Towers and the men in suits who walked through the fire to survival. The Dancing Israelis. And the questionable evidence provided by the U.S. Solicitor General about his wife's phone calls. Pilots who could not fly the aircraft, suspects who were alive after 9/11 and one who was dead before hand. Very questionable, and contradictory, evidence from the airline itself. Betty Ong and her staircase. No plane at either the Pentagon or in the field in Shanksville. And a captain in the Israeli Defence Force's Elite Anti-Terrorist Unit, who was a hostage rescue specialist, sitting with the hijackers on Flight 11. And there are two dark, windowless military looking planes at the Twin Towers. And we even have the American-Israeli Secretary for Defense and his company's Flight Interruption System for remotely controlling passenger jets in case of hijack. And thousands of BB 18 fuse holders on the ninetieth floor of the World Trade Centre where an Israeli Art group were carrying out a project that involved removing a window and abseiling equipment. So find out who was responsible and why…? – Albert Jack Albert Jack AUDIOBOOKS available for download here

9/11 Conspiracy: WTC: Twin Towers: September 11, 2001 Buy Now Other Platforms AudioBooks Assorted eBooks More 9/11 Conspiracy with Albert Jack Read the full article
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NF-4D Phantom N430FS of Tracor Flight System Inc. at MCAS Miramar. June 1993
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Retired to MASDC/AMARC on September 26, 1979 as "FE610". Later was modified to QF-100F (AD386) on June 27, 1989, by Tracor Flight Systems Inc., Mojave, CA.
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North American QF-100D Super Sabre 55-2927 by Wing attack Plan R Via Flickr: F-100D-45-NH. C.N. 224-194. Last unit: 163rd TFS / 122th TFG, Fort Wayne ANGS. Withdrawn from service to MASDC 20 November 1978 as AA FE0419. Departed AMARC 15 April 1987 to TRACOR Flight Systems. Converted to QF-100D drone 283. Photo Credit's: Unknown to me (reprint scan) Photo believed to have been taken in 1987.
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North American F-100F-10-NA Super Sabre ’63-951 / SS’ (N26AZ) by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 243-120 Built in 1957 for the United States Air Force with the full serial 56-3844 and flew with the Thunderbirds team between 1964 and 1968. She was sold to the Royal Danish Air Force in 1974 where she served as a TF-100F with the serial GT-844. In 1982 she was sold to Flight Systems Inc at Mojave and was initially registered as N3251X before becoming N415FS in 1983. Operated by Tracor Flight Systems from 1983 to 1997, she was based at Bournemouth in the UK, but flew on military contracts throughout Europe. Sold to Grecoair Inc in El Paso, Texas, in 1997 and reregistered as N26AZ, she was then repainted in New Mexico Air Guard colours with her correct serial ‘63844’. She joined the Collins Foundation in February 2011 and was immediately repainted in camouflage with the false identity ’63-951’ She now represents 56-3951 of the 309th Tactical Fighter Squadron, part of the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing during the Vietnam War. It was the aircraft in which Colonel George “Bud” Day was shot down on 26th August 1967. He became a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and was later awarded the Medal of Honor for Valor while a prisoner in Hanoi. He flew in this aircraft during 2011, but has sadly since passed on. She is seen on static display at the 2019 Wings over Houston Airshow. Ellington Airport, Houston, Texas. 20th October 2019
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Canadair CT-133 Silver Star N305FS by fsll2 Via Flickr: Canadair CT-133 Silver Star N305FS operated by Tracor Flight Systems at the 1988 Edwards AFB Open Day
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9/11 Conspiracy - The Israeli Art Students

In January 2001 the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency started receiving unusual reports from its field offices all over America. Young Israelis, it was being submitted, were claiming to be art students and touring the country offering their work for sale.
Unusually there seemed to be a large number of DEA Agents and other senior federal officials who were approached at their private addresses and offered specials deals on this artwork at the front door. Reports were also submitted by DEA offices, defence agencies and law enforcement facilities. The students, it appeared, only wanted to sell their art to top secret facilities or members of staff at their homes.

9/11 Conspiracy - Just the known facts The DEA noted the emerging pattern, which began to include FBI agents, and concluded that the DEA appeared to have been targeted in what was called an 'organised intelligence gathering activity.' By nobody understood why, or for whom it was being carried out. Further reports came in throughout the first six months of 2001 from over forty U.S. cities and more than one-hundred and thirty separate incidents of 'art student encounters,' as they were known, were documented involving the U.S. Marshall Services, the ATF, the US Air Force, the Secret Service, the FBI and the DEA themselves. Some of the students were seen sketching the inside of federal buildings after they had gained access to innocently sell pictures to employees. Others were found to have photographs of individual federal agents and one had a computer printout of DEA groups. On many occasions the students visited facilities and agencies so secret that they were not even known to the American public. These are located in areas without street names and with only unidentified, discrete buildings. This confirmed to U.S. authorities that information had already been gathered beforehand and that there was a major infiltration being attempted. One of the young students was discovered to have bank receipts close to $200,000 which he claimed to have been the product of art sales. One of the groups, it was later discovered, had lived for some time in the small town of Hollywood, Florida, close to Mohammad Atta. In March 2001 the CIA issued a warning to all federal employees about the students and informed them that two had been arrested for trespassing and then found to have counterfeit work visas and green cards. Immediately after the warning officials began dealing more aggressively with the students. According to one account, one-hundred and forty Israeli nationals were detained or arrested between March 2001 and Sept. 11, 2001. Many of them were deported. None of the students were enrolled in the art colleges they claimed to be and some of those did not even exist. At the time the media were generally led to believe that the students were Arabs posing as Israelis and looking for potential targets. Incredibly the story died and was rarely even mentioned. However, after 9/11 reporter Carl Cameron did start investigating the story and was told by one U.S. Intelligence Officer that the art students were a spy-ring who were possibly observing Al- Qaeda members during the months leading up to September 11. But he was also told, quite abruptly, that 'evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about the evidence gathered as it is classified information.' Cameron's explosive story was then scuttled by the major news networks, as their sources inside the Justice Department and the FBI laughed it off as fantasy, and it then died in his arms. It would only resurface later in Europe. However, inside the DEA they knew they had a major problem. The fact that foreign nationals had the home addresses of their agents was only the start of it. The Israeli Embassy, for their part, denied everything. Spokesman Mark Reguev (who later lied about the Dancing Israelis) said; 'No American official or intelligence agency has complained to us about this. This story is nonsense. Israel does not spy on the United States.' There are a number of theories as to what the Israeli students were actually doing. One is that they were trying to infiltrate a known ecstasy drug smuggling ring being run by Israeli nationals. Another is that Mossad were simply training a new group of recruits in field operations. Both of which would seem unlikely. However yet another suggestion is that they were simply a smoke-screen. A cover for the real operation.

Read for yourself... In May 2000 the Lower Manhattan Cultural Arts Programme, who occupied floors ninety and ninety-one of the World Trade Centre Tower One, invited an Israeli Art Project known as Gelatin to share building space with them. Fourteen art students then moved into the ninetieth floor, where they set up tents, and were issued with construction worker passes which gave them access to the trade areas of the buildings. The group of fourteen then created a project known as The B-Thing which involved removing a window on the ninetieth floor and installing a temporary balcony. That was about it. Just a small, wooden balcony which was the photographed from a rented helicopter. In August 2001 Gelatin published a booklet describing Project-B which included some text and obviously many behind the scenes photographs. In some of these photographs the artists are pictured clearly wearing repelling harnesses and there are fixed abseiling ropes hanging from the ceiling. Project-B did not involve anybody climbing down the building. In another photograph rows and rows of boxes can been seen lined along a rear wall with the mark BB 18 stamped on each one. Product BB 18 are fuse holders that can be used for demolition charges. Why would art students need them for their project?

What were they doing in the Twin Towers prior to 9/11? Throughout the booklet all of the art students are only pictured facing away from the camera, although not exactly concealing their identities. Or, at least, not very well because one of them has been identified as Hanan Serfaty, an Israeli military intelligence officer and bomb expert. It was Serfaty who rented two Hollywood apartments close to Mohammad Atta and four of the other named suspects. And it turned out to be Serfaty who was found to have moved nearly $200,000 around during the first quarter of 2001 and explained it away as the proceeds from successful art sales. This is not a conspiracy theory. These are the facts and are easy to check for yourselves. We don't know what caused the collapse of the Twin Towers. But we do know what did not. So research Project B by the Gelatin Art Group and see for yourselves. Finally, just to give you one more thing to think about, but it is just really a detail that may prove important one day. Or may not.

BB 18 fuse holders on the ninetieth floor of the World Trade Centre Those BB 18 fuse holders are supplied by the Littel Fuse Company in Chicago, a subsidiary of Tracor Company, a Government contractor based in Austin Texas. Tracor also owned a company called Vitro, formerly known as the KellX Corporation and now known as Halliburton. The company of the former Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, and the company who made and $40 Billion profit on the Iraq War alone. So now we have WTC7, the Twin Towers and the men in suits who walked through the fire to survival. The Dancing Israelis. And the questionable evidence provided by the U.S. Solicitor General about his wife's phone calls. Pilots who could not fly the aircraft, suspects who were alive after 9/11 and one who was dead before hand. Very questionable, and contradictory, evidence from the airline itself. Betty Ong and her staircase. No plane at either the Pentagon or in the field in Shanksville. And a captain in the Israeli Defence Force's Elite Anti-Terrorist Unit, who was a hostage rescue specialist, sitting with the hijackers on Flight 11. And there are two dark, windowless military looking planes at the Twin Towers. And we even have the American-Israeli Secretary for Defense and his company's Flight Interruption System for remotely controlling passenger jets in case of hijack. And thousands of BB 18 fuse holders on the ninetieth floor of the World Trade Centre where an Israeli Art group were carrying out a project that involved removing a window and abseiling equipment. So find out who was responsible and why…? – Albert Jack Albert Jack AUDIOBOOKS available for download here

9/11 Conspiracy: WTC: Twin Towers: September 11, 2001 Buy Now Other Platforms AudioBooks Assorted eBooks More 9/11 Conspiracy with Albert Jack Read the full article
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N87FS 1954 Canadair CL13B (F-86E) Sabre Mk 5 Flight Systems Inc Kern Airport Mojave 17-18.10.97 by Phil Rawlings Via Flickr: Constructed as a Sabre 6 by Canadair at Montreal, QC. Built for the RCAF under s/n 23285, after service onto the Canadian register as CF-BKG, registered to Maritime Aircraft Repair & Overhaul, Moncton, New Brunswick. Exported to the USA and registered to Fighter Imports Inc., Chino, California, as N8686D in 1973. It was reregistered N87FS when it was sold to Flight Systems, Inc., at Mojave, in 1977, and in June 1982 it was reregistered N92FS when the company was renamed Tracor Flight Systems Inc. Since September 2001 it was registered to Pacific Coast Aero and Engine Parts. New owner 26.04.06 as N3847H.
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N80FS 1958 Canadair CL-13B (F-86E) Mk 6 Flight Systems Inc Kern Airport Mojave 17-18.10.97 by Phil Rawlings Via Flickr: Constructed as a Sabre 6 by Canadair at Montreal, QC. This aircraft was delivered to the Luftwaffe as S6-1675 and later was coded JD+103, BB+284 and KE+104. 30.12.91 to Tracor Flight Systems Inc, Austin, TE as N80FS. Based at Flight Materials Company, McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA. 21.02.19 civil registration, N80FS, cancelled. Exported to France as F-AYSB.
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N86FS 1954 Canadair CL13B (F-86E) Sabre Mk 5 Flight Systems Inc Kern Airport Mojave 17-18.10.97 by Phil Rawlings Via Flickr: Constructed as a Sabre 5 by Canadair at Montreal, QC. by Canadair and first flew 05.11.54. Taken on Strength with the Royal Canadian Air Force as 23367 on 26.11.54. 1956 transferred to 1 (F) OTU, RCAF Chatham, NB. To OTU. To STU. Transferred to ADMU Mountain View. 09.09.70 struck off Strength from the RCAF. To Crown Assets Disposal Corporation (CADC). To Targetair Ltd/Maritime Aircraft Repair and Overhaul, Moncton, NB. From September 1976 to 1977 To Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA as N92402. Repair started. Prior to shipment, the fuselage of 23367 was removed from storage and refurbished at Moncton. Moved from Moncton to Mojave, CA. Restoration completed at Mojave using spare parts. From September 1977 to 1984 to Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA with new registration N86FS (F-86 MK.5, 1157). From December 1991 to 1999 to Tracor Flight Systems, Mojave, CA keeping N86FS. From By 1999 to By 2000 to Marconi Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA as N86FS. By 2000 to BAe Flight Systems Inc, Mojave, CA. From 28 September 2001 to By 2002 to Pacific Coast Engine and Parts Inc, San Fernanado, CA. From October 2003 to 2006 based at Flying Fossils, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, NC. 24.07.06 crashed and was destroyed while departing for Oshkosh from the Hickory Airport, NC. Ran off runway and burnt during takeoff. The airframe was destroyed.
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56-3751 / MI North American F-100F Super Sabre cn 243-027 US Air Force Davis Monthan 16Oct78 by Kerry Taylor Via Flickr: 107th TFS - 127th TFW Michigan ANG. Just arrived on the main ramp on its way into storage at MASDC. On 31Jan89 it departed to Tracor Flight Systems at Mojave CA for conversion to a QF-100F.
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56-3751 / MI North American F-100F Super Sabre cn 243-027 US Air Force Davis Monthan 16Oct78 by Kerry Taylor Via Flickr: 107th TFS - 127th TFW Michigan ANG. Just arrived on the main ramp on its way into storage at MASDC. On 31Jan89 it departed to Tracor Flight Systems at Mojave CA for conversion to a QF-100F.
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