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Wed Nov 08 2000 at 20:47:17
Sunday, Number One Son and I were treated the Air Show at Davis Monthan AFB. When we got there a stunt pilot was doing
Hammerhead Stalls
. Dad said that he loved doing those and recalled doing them in a T2 (or was it a T6?) He put his arm around my shoulder and told me small stories about the various aircraft like he used to when I was a little girl.
Like the time a
U2
lost an engine near Ramsey AFB,
Puerto Rico
and the tower asked the pilot where he was expecting to ditch in the ocean. The pilot radioed back he was going to
glide
in from 300 miles out. His altitude was so high and the wing span on the plane so wide he was able to land safely. Or how they used to use water in the engines on take off when he flew the
KC-135 Tanker
so that the expansion of the steam gave them enough thrust for take off when weighed down with fuel.
Converting
JP-4
he calls it. The
Thunderbirds
were there and dedicated their 6 man
Diamond Fly By
Review
to
Colonel Hoot Gibson
. Later one we went over to the Retired Officers Affairs and met up with Hoot a very nice man. Former Commander and leader of the
U. S. Air Force Thunderbirds
. Jet
fighter ace
and war hero, he shot down five
MiGs
in Korea. A totally phenomenal set of eyeballs. Hoot could see a MIG-21 with a three meter cross section at 25 miles.
We met General Keith Connelly (Ret.) and Dad and a retired Army Colonel, a veteran of
The Big Red One
exchanged anecdotes about Generals. In the early 60's we were stationed in Georgia. Because the
United States Air Force
wouldn't allow the
Army
to fly their planes, Dad's job was to fly VIP's back and forth to the forests of North Carolina where the
Army
practiced their war manuevers. One of the Generals carried a
walking staff
and lost it somewhere..... he called the mock war to a
screeching halt
to have the soldiers search the woods for his staff.
Dad would sit in the shade of the wing of his
Gooney Bird
and read while he waited. One day his
very bored
eleven year old daughter managed to put a call through the Base Operator who patched it through to his aiplanes radio danlging over his head. I really missed him when he was gone and well
Daddy I think the painters are using too
pineappley
of a yellow for the house.
He told me he'd look into it when he got home and to go outback and make sure the garden we 'd planted over the weekend was watered well.
General Connelly shook all our hands and in a booming voice hollered to one of the wives that he was
looking for a sheet cake!
...... from her and
you know how I like your marble cakes!!!
But those who wait on the LORD will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint
Isaiah 40:31
(NLT)
Devotion
November 9, 2000
November 7, 2000
What will occur the day after Windows NT becomes open source
birthday
November 8, 2001
Freedom of religion is not freedom from religion
November 10, 2000
Lonely in a crowded room
nervous breakdown
Hypothetical 2000 presidential election results, pretending the states weren't winner-take-all
Palm Beach County, Florida
Florida Election Automatic Recount
Sometimes it's 4 a.m.
November 11, 2000
Private Schools
Viva
KC-135 Stratotanker
Isaiah 40
November 8, 1999
horrorshow
George W. Bush
Al Gore
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