Only difference was that in 72 they replaced the B-52's with FB-111A's like we had at Plattsburgh NY and Pease NH - KC-135's were still there of course. -----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. OOPS 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, could tell me 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 volunteer and get a cushy job in Chicago at Navy Pier when it was still an active Naval post. A guy I worked with at Plattsburgh NY would tell me about the base we went to for tech training - Chanute (was field, then AFB, now closed and public) in IL. Seems he was one of those people that had a parent that was older when he was concieved (his dad remarried after being widowed - MUCH younger wife) and seems his dad was at Chanute Field back when they did flying training and it seems Mr Charles Lindbergh was going through air mail pilot training in a biplane at Chanute at the same time. He was by no means famous then but everybody knew each other and once Lindberg had the notariaty as well as the misfortune with their son, he would write just to keep in touch. The guy I worked with had a photo of his dad and Lindberg and a coupel other GI's back at Chanute - pretty cool. The older man that showed us the property my parents bought out here back in 72, who was 88 then and still hiking the woods better than us 15 yr olds, would tell us about the area in years past and his father was a Civil War soldier, CSA, at age 15. Weird how the world has changed - people can't even sit in their back yards on a summer day without passing out yet as little time as back in 66 I remember when air conditioners were just starting to become a normal thing in Chicago in my neighborhood of working class folks. Color TV was just affordable about 62 or 63 yet most stations still broadcasted in BW. People in my grandparents era married and had businesses or farms or worked 60 to 80 hrs a week, had kids, etc starting at age 14, now you can't get your kid to leave at 24... ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ --------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Talk Shop http://www.computertalkshop.com Un-subscribe/Vacation, http://www.computertalkshop.com/list_options.htm List HowTo: http://www.computertalkshop.com/faq.htm To join Computer Talk Shop's off topic list, please goto: http://computertalkshop.com/other_cts_lists.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------