Posted on 09/08/2019 8:11:10 AM PDT by Oratam
My high school friend says that the FB-111’s weren’t there when he was, he left in 1970. But the word was that they were coming..
He reminded me that the base up there has been closed for years to which I reminded him I live 10 air miles from and am in the landing pattern for Stewart which, like Plattsburg is now a commercial airport. They used to have C-5A’s at Stewart but they’re gone now. The Air Guard unit there has C-130s. Big difference..
Yon mean that WASN’T the propane cannon in the neighbor’s corn field?
I guess these aren’t the “booms” that have been heard coming from the Atlantic since colonial times?
I knew a guy that had been in the Navy. It must have been in the early 1980’s that there had been a bunch of them off the east coast. He claimed that he was on a ship dropping nuclear depth charges against Soviet submarines. I doubt it, but....
Seneca guns. Not the booms from the ocean - but local to this area.
Yes, the tail was so high it was outside the front cone and created its own cone above it. It's why she always sounded like a double barrel shotgun someone was attempting to get both barrels to fire simultaneously but not quite timing it right.
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