2010 TORCH CALENDAR

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Via e-mail --  You have a great calendar. We send out a lot of them throughout our building here at 10th Air Force Headquarters because of the quality of the publication and outstanding pictures.

However, I'm not sure if anyone else has brought this to your attention, but there is one error that was brought to mine by a fellow aviator. The smaller picture on the lower right corner of the 2010 calendar for the month of September is not a T-1 Jayhawk but some version of the C-21 Learjet.

Thanks for putting out such a quality product, but I would be remiss as a current/qualified T-1 instructor pilot if I didn't bring it to your attention.

Col. Scott D. Irons
Fort Worth, Texas

You're right. We have corrected the mistake on our Web site. We apologize for the error and appreciate your feedback.
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The Torch calendar is great. I'm curious if you know what and where the bridge is in the background of the DA-20 photo for February? Is this a pedestrian type bridge? The pickup truck driving across seems to make the bridge somewhat narrow.

Also, what's the background coastline in the C-130 photo for June?

Tim Jaccarino
Luke Air Force Base, Ariz.
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The DA-20, flown by Col. John Blumentritt, Air Education and Training Command director of safety, and Maj. Jeff Yost, of the 1st Flying Training Squadron, is part of the Air Force's Initial Flight Screening program at Pueblo, Colo. It is flying over the Royal Gorge Bridge (billed as the highest suspension bridge in the world) in Canon City, Colo. As far as the C-130, which is out of Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., the body of water you see in the photo is the Arkansas River.

The Torch calendars are great ... love the pics.

Master Sgt. Michael Scott
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas
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I received the 2010 calendars, and once again you all did an outstanding job selecting the best action packed photos. I gave one of the calendars to my assistant, and her son grabbed it before she got a chance to show it to her husband. However, her husband will get it back soon enough because their son is waiting for his Air Force Basic Training report date in January. Thanks again for the calendars, and keep up the good work.

John Forslund
Leavenworth, Kan.
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Five years ago my husband and I were visiting our son at Vance Air Force Base, Okla., about this time of year while he was going through pilot training. The billeting office delivered a Torch calendar to our hotel room on base. We were able to get two additional copies from the front desk and enjoyed being able to display them at our work. It has become a tradition every year since to obtain copies. Our son is a captain now, and is currently deployed overseas as an F-15E pilot. Having the calendar means so much to his grandfather, dad and I.

Debbie Anderson
Lancaster, Calif.
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Thanks for an awesome calendar again for 2010. We serve active duty, retirees and their dependents, and we love to offer the calendars to our customers here at Bateman Library.

Brenda Griffin
Langley Air Force Base, Va.
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Many thanks for getting the 306th Flying Training Group aircraft in this year's calendar. The pictures of our aircraft (TG-15s in January and DA-20s in February) look great.

Col. Patrick O. Moylan
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo.
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Thank you so very much for the new calendars! We really enjoy them; it helps family members to know what our daughter is flying. Our daughter is in the Air Force Reserves and nearing the end of undergraduate pilot training. She had graduated with an aeronautics degree when she became interested in flying C-17s. So she went after a C-17 pilot slot and succeeded. She can't wait to fly one!

Aletha Werner
Walla Walla, Wash.
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The calendars are fantastic as usual! I work in the Training Simulators Product Group, and we support a number of Air Force platforms. Once I hung my new calendar, everyone wanted one! So I passed them out to all my co-workers. Thank you for sharing.

Karen Shelley
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio