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To: USARightSide

Well, it is said that flying is in the blood, so you definitely might have a genetic component...:)

I have loved aviation since I read “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo” when I was seven. I got my first sight of real military planes when I landed at Tachikawa AFB when my dad got orders to Yokosuka, Japan. After our plane landed, we taxied past a long row of F4 Phantoms, painted in black and dark green camouflage.

Then, when I lived at Subic Bay, I used to go to the airfield up at Cubi Point and walk all around the planes...the Crusaders...Corsairs, Phantoms and Intruders. Hahaha, now you wouldn’t get within a half mile of them.


8 posted on 02/23/2013 7:16:04 PM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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" Vought F4U Corsair crashes on the deck of a carrier when the arresting gear failed. Most likely sometime during WW2 in the Pacific Theater."

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11 posted on 02/23/2013 8:07:09 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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