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07-08-2008, 06:53 PM | #17 |
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Cool pics, when I was a kid I had a control line P40 Warhawk and a L4 Grasshopper. It would be neat to have seen the real ones.
During WW2 my mom was a welder at GM in Oshawa Ontario. They built the Mosquito bombers there. She welded the oxygen lines in every plane produced in that plant. I seen a Mosquito about 5 years ago in a Ottawa museum, it was quite a moving experience seeing a plane that she had worked on 60 years earlier.
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My dad was stationed at Hill AFB, back when it was in full swing. They had bunkers with nuclear weapons out in the back 40. Big missiles on custom-built missle carriers. I rode within spitting distance of them many times. There was a dirt track for the local club called The Iron Ponies, and we used to ride scooters and minibikes back there before we had real motorcycles. It was just below the main runways on the east hillside, which was the back of the base.
We used to lie in the tall grass just beyond the end of the runways and B-52's would scream over the top of us taking off. They would just pound you against the ground they were so loud. As kids we managed to sneak all over that base, to places where civilians weren't normally supposed to go. I remember buying cans of beer for a quarter, from a vending machine in the restroom building out on the officer's golf course. Beer for a quarter. I'm really dating myself, huh? |
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07-08-2008, 09:10 PM | #19 |
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We all have to get together and do some rides to these kinda places. Not a lotta miles but a tremendous amount of history.
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