In 1964/65 I was stationed at Kelly, AFB in San Antonio... the USAF's
bomber hospital. My wife and I lived in a small apartment over our
landlord's garage on the approach to the runway. We were rudely
awakened on many mornings by the sound of B-52s and B-58s (which howl
like a banshee).
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/15/2014 5:48 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
Many years ago we were busy rigging rafts and canoes just upstream
from Mexican Hat for a week-long run down the San Juan River. I
heard a low rumble from the east and looked up just in time to see a
B-52G come over the hilltops on an low-altitude oil-burner practice
navigation run. Damned loud even with the newer engines.
They used to do these regularly over the southwest. One got a little
too low near Kayenta and hit the top of a low peak of Navajo
sandstone south of El Capitan. There were a few survivors, which was
a miracle since the aircraft came down in pieces both large and
small.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson
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