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12-12-2006, 01:25 PM
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#31 | | Senior Member
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Country:  | I like a smoking jet! I grew up exactly ten miles directly north of the
end of the west runway at McCoy AFB, now Orlando International (MCO).
Fond memories have I of B-52's scrambling on ORI drills and flying, still very
low, directly over my house. Noise and smoke - the sound of Freedom!
A tidbit for those of you who visit Orlando. When you land at the airport,
you are touching history. Before it was named after LTC McCoy who died
in a B-47 accident, it was Pinecastle AFB. It is where the Bell X-1 was first
dropped and glide tested and landed before going to Muroc for powered flight test. I think Slick Goodlin was flying some of those drops. Slick died earlier
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12-12-2006, 08:11 PM
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I was there - I actually saw it happen.
Those are droned a little different than the ones used at Holloman and Tyndal. I think all the Mugu QF-4s are gone.
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12-22-2006, 09:51 AM
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12-22-2006, 09:57 AM
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#34 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | Sad weekend - after witnessing this a Point Mugu we flew back Sunday morning. As we were securing the aircraft I get a call on my cell phone, the night before a good friend of mine was murdered.
I mark that weekend as a turning point in my slow departure from California...
BTW - I've posted this photo before. Right after it was taken I got the phone call...
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12-22-2006, 01:24 PM
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#35 | | aka Dickcheese
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Country: | Sorry to here that, FBJ. That is an ache that never seems to go away.
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12-22-2006, 01:53 PM
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Country: | Sorry to hear that Joe... You have my deepest sympathies. | |
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12-22-2006, 03:42 PM
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#37 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | Thanks guys - it was a while ago (May 2002). Since then my life and environment has improved considerably!
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12-22-2006, 10:40 PM
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Country: | If you don't mind me asking, FBJ, what was the circumstances?
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12-23-2006, 12:20 AM
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#39 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by Matt308  If you don't mind me asking, FBJ, what was the circumstances? | He was a Manager of a night club in Lancaster, Ca. He had thrown out 3 guys earlier in the night, they came back several hours later with a high power rifle and shot up the place. A bouncer and several patrons were hit, Marshal was hit in the head, died on the way to the hospital.
It took several years but they caught the @ssholes, they got life, should of gotten a lot more.
Lancaster was a sleepy desert town with a lot of aviation activity, just like everything else, scumbags from the LA area came up and ruined the place. Less than a year later I moved to Colorado.
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12-23-2006, 12:09 PM
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Country: | what a bunch of mother ****ers!, i agree they should have gotten more then life
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12-23-2006, 12:14 PM
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#41 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Country: | He was a really cool dude. He worked for Iron Maiden for a number of years and brought in some really unique bands into this club. Quite Riot, Blue Oyster Cult, Molly Hatchet, The Fixx, Berlin, Slash, Missing Persons and whole bunch more - most of these concerts I seen free and I would get VIP seating because I hung out there so much. Had things been different my wife and I might of been there that night with a bunch of our friends. I'm left with a lot of fun memories of the place and will always remember my friend Marshal...
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12-24-2006, 10:59 PM
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Country: | Painful reading Joe. I know what are you talking about - in smaller scale - I've been around such like places all my life... Not what are you describing but I know the sreet crimi life... Knew some people who are not here anymore so I know your feelings. :/ | |
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12-24-2006, 11:02 PM
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Country: | Thanks, FBJ. Tragic that so many people's lives were so irrevocably altered over something so trivial.
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12-24-2006, 11:24 PM
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Country: | Thanks all - Merry Christmas!!!
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