Posted on 02/03/2016 8:55:57 AM PST by PROCON
Forgot about that! Good insight.
My house is in line with the runway at Andrews AFB outside of DC. The weeks after 9/11 were very busy. I swear they got wheels up and went vertical in afterburner right over my house.
Cool, except when you’re trying to sleep after a midshift.
I lived at Subic Bay
On Sunday mornings at about 7:00, the A-7’s I think, would take off to rejoin their carrier at sea
they would get off the Cubi Point runway to right above my house and turn vertical with full power, zooming straight up. The house shook from the mighty blasts of power. The story was it was illegal, but hey....... they were going back to Vietnam
Hey! I lived at Subic Bay, too! I spent a lot of time at the beaches near Cubi Point...:) I used to walk around on the ramp above the beach where the planes would all be tied down (around 1969) sure couldn’t do that now! I tried to walk across the runway to get to the beach on the other side and got busted...
I have a cool story about an F8 Crusader (When I was a kid, I would sometimes see Crusaders and Corsairs parked near each other, and I thought they were different variants of the same plane! (in a weird way...they were)
“The base had 2 -8,000 foot crosswind runways but they only used 1,000 feet on each end to replicate carrier landing/takeoffs.”
I was on Whidbey Island Base working and noticed and wondered about why they didn’t use the entire runway - and yes it was loud!
an interesting bit of nostalgic trivia......
when they closed it all down, they moved the Cubi O’club bar to the Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola. It is super cool. They have all those squadron plaques and paraphernalia covering the walls of the museum restaurant..
Of course, the museum is fantastic
I’ve had lunch there. Very good. And yes love that museum.
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