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To: Peter Horry
Memories of Charleston AFB.

What a sight when they took delivery of the first C-5A's!

Then as a cadet at "Alcatraz on the Ashley" I got a TDY to fly in one.

10 posted on 07/24/2009 6:50:06 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
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To: N. Theknow

“What a sight when they took delivery of the first C-5A’s!”

Believe one of the first one’s in blew a tire, didn’t it? Those things also make an infernal racket, kind of like a DeWalt Router.


12 posted on 07/24/2009 7:02:17 AM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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