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My first time to get in this discussion on planes. I searched to see what was on the above planes. I worked at the Ft.Worth plant in 1955-58. I had the supply station on the flight line for service updates on the B-36's. It was hot out there in the summer time and I would go to the inside where it had air conditioners piped inside the plane. One day I was working inside my station and a B-47 had parked within 40 yds with the back end pointing north to a dirt berm. I didn't know that they were about to test a Vulcan canon mounted in the rear section. I jumped about a foot when they turned the guns on and I noticed a pile of empty shells on the ground. It was load!!! My wife was working as a secretary to the man in charge of the B-58 project. We were there when the first test flight of the B-58 took off. That was a thrill to see and know we were a part of history. In May of '58 I got the famous letter telling me Uncle Sam had a rifle waiting for me and I left for the Army. I made the statement that I would never go back to work in a plant over a mile long and no windows to see outside. | ||
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When I went to school at Chanute AFB in '84 they had a B-36 on display on the flight line and a B-58 on a pedestal at the parade field. The B-36 still seems like the largest aircraft I've ever been around, even compared to the C-5 and 747s I spent quite a bit of time around. Knew a navigator who flew in the Hustler; told me they didn't know how fast it could go because it ran out of fuel before it stopped accelerating. Amazing machines, indeed. John Farner If you haven't, please join the NRA! | |||
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That is a cool thing to read, thanks, Paul Smith SCI Life Member NRA Life Member DSC Member Life Member of the "I Can't Wait to Get Back to Africa" Club DRSS I had the privilege to fire E. Hemingway's WR .577NE, E. Keith's WR .470NE, & F. Jamieson's WJJ .500 Jeffery I strongly recommend avoidance of "The Zambezi Safari & Travel Co., Ltd." and "Pisces Sportfishing-Cabo San Lucas" "A failed policy of national defense is its own punishment" Otto von Bismarck | |||
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Somewhere along the line I've collected a "horn button" off a B-47. I'm sure it's a filler cover/emblem from the yoke. I saw the same one at the Boeing Museum is Seattle. NRA Life ASSRA Life DRSS Today's Quote: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with free monthly minutes, food stamps, section 8 housing, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime. | |||
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My Dad was stationed at Chanute Field in I believe Rantoul, Illinois. It was in the summer of 1941. | |||
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