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To: Bonemaker

The regularity of crashes by pilots training at MacDill Field (up to 15 in one 30-day period) led to the exaggerated catchphrase, “One a day in Tampa Bay.”

B-26 crews gave the aircraft the nickname “Widowmaker”. Other colorful nicknames included “Martin Murderer”, “Flying Coffin”, “B-Dash-Crash”, “Flying Prostitute” (so-named because it was so fast and had “no visible means of support,” referring to its small wings) and “Baltimore Whore” (a reference to the city where Martin was based).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_B-26_Marauder


19 posted on 07/27/2018 5:14:17 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Looking at old airfields is cool.

Here is one that became Busch Gardens north of Tampa

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/FL/Airfields_FL_TampaN.htm

Also, not many folks know that Orlando International Airport has the letter code - MCO.

Orlando was once a B52 bomber base called McCOy Airfield. Only 2mi long runways in existence on the East Coast at the time.


26 posted on 07/27/2018 8:11:36 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (All Democrats have to offer is violence, intolerance, divisiveness and hatred.)
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