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Eielson’s ‘Lady of the Lake’ had role in Cold War
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ^
| Aug 17, 2014
| By Sam Friedman
Posted on 08/17/2014 9:35:15 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar
“I do love her, that gorgeous girl, but she snores like a Jake brake and squeaks like a squirrel.”
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posted on
08/17/2014 9:42:29 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Jet Jaguar
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posted on
08/17/2014 9:43:45 PM PDT
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Squantos
The escape training idea is very likely. They built artificial pits at some of the desert fields like Wendover and put fuselages in them as water escape training aids.
This a/c could have been towed out on ice and allowed to sink with the thaw.
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posted on
08/17/2014 9:55:35 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
To: Squantos; Darksheare
This old bird sits in a lake where I duck hunt every season.
The rumor was she was towed out there after being heavily cannibalized.
However, the records of the parts swaps were not kept.
An upcoming visit from PACAF IG was about to happen, so the maintainers ditched her in the lake so she, and any records of her, would not be found by the inspectors.
Probably just a rumor. But, who knows?
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posted on
08/17/2014 9:55:42 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Jet Jaguar
The daily station diary has to be somewhere for that era.
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posted on
08/17/2014 9:59:16 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
To: Jet Jaguar
Probably how it went down.
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posted on
08/17/2014 9:59:37 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Rockpile
You would think. But, paper records, these days, is hard to come by.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:02:27 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Jet Jaguar; Rockpile
Not to mention that back then, sometimes nostalgic officers took home mementos.
Logbooks, sometimes.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:05:34 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:05:55 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Darksheare; Rockpile
Somebody knows.
They just aren’t up here anymore.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:07:21 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Darksheare
I kind of prefer the “Sucked up into a UFO and found
later in lake” theory.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:08:31 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Jet Jaguar; Rockpile
They might not be among the living anymore either.
Probably ome logbooks laying dusty in an attic somewhere here in the lower 48.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:09:08 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: tet68
“Honest! We were on our way back from the o club! What? Only one drink each. Minute.”
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:10:34 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Jet Jaguar; Darksheare; Squantos
Okay, Joe Baugher’s site says that 62214.....
Suffered a ground accident in 1954/55 and was stripped of parts, towed to a gravel pit and dumped there.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:10:35 PM PDT
by
Rockpile
To: Rockpile; Jet Jaguar; tet68
???
Drats, there goes my “o club misadventure” joke.
*grumble grumble*
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:12:22 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Try my coffee! First one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: Jet Jaguar
What a great story. Thanks, JJ, for the ping.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:28:08 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Thanks for the additions. Hopefully, I can post some duck hunting success wih her in the background come September.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:32:40 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Darksheare
Find a burned piano? Contact your local AF fighter squadron for answers...
I don’t know why they do it. But, they do.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:35:29 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: Jet Jaguar
Good luck on your duck hunting.
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posted on
08/17/2014 10:41:59 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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