[narby]

I flew into Yuma last year in my Lancair. It's a split Marine/civilian airfield.

Kinda neat having F-18's hold short for you.

They had 3 or 4 other Lancairs out there.

Hope the guy's OK. Punching out can hurt all on it's own.

[jettester]

The civilian side used to be (maybe still is) owned by McDonnel Douglas where we used to do all of our flight testing. I still ahve some awesome pictures of some of the foreign military jets that would arrive there for war game training.

The was also a time where one of the Harriers malfunctioned and the pilot ejected. The plane was in configuration to lift/hover and rather than crash, it kind of skitted over the ground towards our test facility. It ended up crashing into a fence where it eitehr ran out of fuel, totally broke down or the engines just up and quit.

[SwinneySwitch]

"Punching out can hurt all on it's own."

Had a Marine buddy that had to quit flying after punching out of a Harrier!

[RJL]

I flew into Yuma last year in my Lancair.

"My Lancair" most excellent!

Any details or photos of your Lancair available for posting?