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LONG SOUGHT IMAGE JUST WALKS INTO THE MUSEUM

Jan 21, 2012 at 10:43 pm in History of Borinquen-Ramey AFB, Museum, Museum Activities, Pictures, Planes, Ramey Air Force Base by Ricardo Busquets · 4 Comments »

Here at the Museum we have a pretty big list of subject matter we wish to continue adding to our repository. To that end the Museum staff spends a vast amount of time doing research. It’s what we spend most of our time with.

Last Saturday USAF retired SSgt Jose F. Jimenez Barreto visited the Museum for the first time. After checking out the Museum he felt confident his three simple donations, as he called them, would be safe at our [read more →]

by Ricardo Busquets

B-52 Cold War Navigator

Jan 13, 2012 at 9:25 pm in History of Borinquen-Ramey AFB, Members, Museum, Museum Activities, Pictures, Planes, Puerto Rico, Ramey Air Force Base by Ricardo Busquets · 3 Comments »

Lori Mischke forwarded a message from our website. Pat Allen and his wife Ginger were going home to Ramey again. After a few e-mails it was all set.

Pat and Ginger arrived at the Museum right on schedule. This I’m sure to the fact that Pat was a B-52 navigator while stationed at Ramey. I was so focused on Pat’s story that I forgot to take pictures of the Allen’s at the Museum. That’s a first for me!!!

Now to the Allen’s [read more →]

by Ricardo Busquets

Ramey AFB Tour-ist Certificate

Dec 27, 2011 at 9:12 pm in History of Borinquen-Ramey AFB, Museum, Pictures, Planes, Puerto Rico, Ramey Air Force Base by Ricardo Busquets · 1 Comment »

The RAFBHA received an e-mail from Mr. Pat Donnelly. The message was received thru our website and forwarded to the Museum by our webmaster and RAFBHA Board Secretary Lori Mischke.

Pat wanted to donate his father’s pieces of history to the Museum. Pat’s father, SMSGT Brian J. Donnelly, was stationed at Ramey AFB from 1964 until 1967. Among his many assignments, before being stationed at Ramey, was photographing “Operation Crossroads” at the Bikini Atoll.

SMSGT Donnelly has passed away but his son [read more →]

by Lori Mischke

B-29 Taking Off From Borinquen Field, 1945

Sep 18, 2011 at 9:52 pm in History of Borinquen-Ramey AFB, Museum, Planes, Puerto Rico, Ramey Air Force Base by Lori Mischke · Leave a Comment »

This pictures comes from the Borinquen Field-Ramey AFB Museum courtesy of Museum Director, Ricardo Busquets. Ricardo and I are going to start working on the history section of the web site. Stayed tuned because there will be many excellent photographs posted, just like this one….

by Lori Mischke

Ramey Air Force Base 1966

Sep 14, 2011 at 4:45 pm in History of Borinquen-Ramey AFB, Members, Pictures, Planes, Puerto Rico, Ramey Air Force Base by Lori Mischke · Leave a Comment »

Picture from 1966 shared by member Ken Hill. This is a great picture of the Ramey Air Force Base and Flight Line. The top left corner is the Alert Area, B-52′s and KC-135′s

by Lori Mischke

Boeing 787 Visits Ramey

Feb 13, 2011 at 11:42 pm in Members, Planes, Puerto Rico by Lori Mischke · Leave a Comment »

Supporter and Friend of Ramey, Rob Plested shares the following:

New Boeing 787 airframe #5, sitting on the Aguadilla ramp, getting ready to fly.

My son’s wife is a test engineer with this airframe. He’s an engineer aboard airframe #3.

Here’s post flight being done on the plane the evening of prior day.

by Lori Mischke

B-52 Taking Off At The 2007 Puerto Rico Air Extravaganza

Nov 17, 2010 at 2:17 pm in Planes, Puerto Rico by Lori Mischke · 2 Comments »

On my daily morning stroll of the Internet I found this video. I’ve already watched it 6 times this morning, and chances are good I’ll be watching it 6 more times later today. Needless to say the footage is excellent. This video was shot and posted to YouTube by Hector A. Rivera

by Lori Mischke

B-36 Years at Ramey Air Force Base

Oct 8, 2010 at 11:37 pm in Pictures, Planes, Puerto Rico by Lori Mischke · 1 Comment »

I received an interesting email the other day and thought it would be a good idea to share it with the rest of you:

Who do I need to contact about getting as much information as possible on the B-36 years at Ramey. My Dad was stationed at Ramey from 1955-1959 and took quite a few B-36 pictures during his time in the 28th ARS and the 72nd FMS.

I am considering putting a book together, titled, “The 72nd Bombardment [read more →]

by Lori Mischke

B-17 Flying Fortress Comes to Elkhart Indiana

Sep 1, 2010 at 4:12 am in Members, Planes by Lori Mischke · Leave a Comment »

I could not have lived with myself if I had passed up on this opportunity. The B-17, a flying museum, literally right in my own backyard. Honestly, a few years ago I would have passed on this and not have thought too much about it. But because of Ramey, I have discovered a new love and appreciation for military history. So I was thrilled to be able to see first hand a plane that holds incredible memories to so [read more →]

by Lori Mischke

The B-52 & What She Means

Aug 30, 2010 at 10:55 pm in Members, Planes by Lori Mischke · Leave a Comment »

Bob Matheson shared this presentation. The pictures and graphics are incredible and too good not to post to this blog for everyone to enjoy.

Stratofortress
Thanks for sharing Bob!