We had a virtual aerial menagerie flying over us everyday -- but most of them were B-36s and P-82s. Plus, we also got all the F7U Cutlass traffic. They were being built at the Chance-Vought factory over in Grand Prairies, but the adjoining Naval Air Station either wasn't finished or couldn't handle them. As a consequence, the completed F7Us were disassembled and trucked over to Carswell, where they were re-assembled and tested.
In retrospect, those were three exotic designs.
We had a virtual aerial menagerie flying over us everyday
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Your posting brought back memories! I grew up in West Dallas in Oak Cliff during the ‘40s-’50s, only a few miles from Mountain Creek Lake and NAS Dallas, which was on the NE side of the lake. ........btw, the NAS was operational in 1942 and several of our neighbors were active duty or reserve Marines/Navy who were stationed there.
We kids in the late ‘40s would watch the B-36s and also the Flying Wings (I forget the B-** designation) that would fly over from Carswell AFB (adjacent to Convair/General Dynamics). To us kids, those aircraft were awesome.
About a month into my Sr. year of HS, me and two friends enlisted in the Naval Air Reserves at NAS Dallas. It was primarily a training base with patrol (P2-Vs back then) and transport squadrons, but they also based F8-U Crusaders there.