Cold was the killer !
We had some T-33's to keep any assigned single engine jocks current and
I preflighted five of them one morning, about 4:00 AM and 40 below zero,
before I got one running.
Man I hated that crap !!!!!!
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Russ Blakeman wrote:
Been to Boring Loring in Caribou, ME. Rough getting all that metal off the ground in bad weather.
-----Original Message----- *From:* computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]*On Behalf Of *Cuffy *Sent:* Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:38 PM *To:* computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [CTS] Re: Back to School ?
In the late 50's I was at Loring AFB, Me. in the 42nd Bomb Wing, the first all jet bomb wing in the Air Force. A squadron of B-52's and a squadron of KC-135's.......... yep, they are big and they are noisey.
=================== Russ Blakeman wrote:
They shut down the airfield after Vietnam - too loud I guess which is what helped put Chanute AFB on the kill list rather than another ATC base...now the runways are open for light and medium sized aircraft up to about the size of a C-123 Provider. I did see one aircraft come into Chanute despite closed airfield - a B-52D was pulled from mothballs at Davis-Monthan and made flightworthy, flown ever so carefully into the short runways of Chanute in mid 83 when I was there for reraining. You don't realize how big those SOBs are until they fly over your head at less than 500 ft trying to make their last, but sucessful, landing.
In 90 that same plane was ground into a pile of aluminum allow scrap as part of the US-Soviet START treatise. What a shame. The front cabin of the other B-52D or E that was removed for egress training, is still there now as a display/tourist thingy. I know the curator Don Weckhorst very well - he was a retired E9 teaching classes at the local community college plus running the base historians's job and retiree affairs - and still does the historian and retiree affairs jobs without any pay - he just loves what he does and his E9 pay isn't bad either for 30 yrs service.
could tellOOPS that should be corrected - IIRC he said Lindergh ran air mail before that and went to Chanute Field for actual military air corps pilot training....
-----Original Message----- From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Russ Blakeman Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:38 PM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Re: Back to School ?
My dad was born 11/32, he was also about 8 when Pearl was bombed. My
grandfather on my mom's side, before he lost it to alzeihmer's,
volunteer andme all kinds of odd stuff about the turn of the century (19th to
20th) as he
was born 1894 and was almmost drafted for WWI but managed to
get a cushy job in Chicago at Navy Pier when it was still an