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Doug - that is a great article. The link works fine; thanks for posting.

Brings back some good memories of the days when General Aviation was an exciting place to be. Small aircraft, lots of young people in pilot training ... ah, the good ol' days. And that wonderful Jaguar - wow.

Thanks.
Tom M.
 
Good article. Kinda strikes a chord.

Typed a rather long paragraph about some of my flight experiences, but decided it to be somewhat irrelevant. Synopsis:

Living under the final approach to an Air Force base here, I will still run out of the garage to see the various planes overhead. Kinda like a prairie dog... Can usually tell by engine sounds what they are. Most are KC-135's, some are the "execu-jets" of general staff folk and periodically a flight of Osprey, or some foreign F-5's on training missions. F-16's and Warthogs doing same, with an occasional C-17. Got to be "backseat baggage" in an F-106-B model for my first real performance aircraft ride and numerous jumps in stuff from F-4's, A-10's, O-2's to UH-1's and HH-53's. Likely got to ride through some of the terrain in Vietnam with guys having been through the training mentioned in that article. Never got to get an F-15 ride, bumped by a MSgt about to retire, saying: "You'll have plenty of chances later." That was as the plane still had orange wingtips, during the: "Fly Before You Buy" appraisal out of Nellis. The ride never happened, I left the USAF after my first enlistment.

Sometimes I miss it all.
 
Nice article Doug, it took me back a few years also, my initiation to flying was in 1957 in an old Luscombe aircraft on a dirt strip full of pot holes up in Kansas, my Jaguar was an old beat up Harley Davidson! :highly_amused:
 
Just noticed - the photo in that article shows the Jaguar and its owner - Martha Anne Woodrum Zillhardt - in front of "Woodrum Field" terminal.

Look up Woodrum Field for an interesting story.

Tom M.
 
The writer of that story does a lot of interesting articles pertaining to
local history.The original story was that she drove a Cadillac convertible.
 
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