At 12:24 PM 1/11/03 -0500, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 1/11/2003 8:18:33 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:> Before I irretrievably banish it to an electronic netherworld, does anyone > have any idea what or who "Huuchies" is/are? Perhaps they come from Fort Huachuca?
Perhaps. ;-)
FWIW, the times I've been in Tucson, I was visiting either there or DMAFB in my AF ossifer days. I think I only got off-base into the city once: a few of us rode the bus into town one night to see what it looked like.
And you will probably be able to appreciate the story of the time (mid-late 70s, and _before_ I was involved in that business) they were testing a UAV on the range there and lost radio contact with it. They could track it on radar, they just couldn't talk to it. Those things are set up for test missions so that after a few minutes without radio contact from the ground controllers, their engines are supposed to shut down and the parachutes come out, and it lands. (BTW, most of these primitive UAVs did not have landing gear but were designed to be recovered by a helicopter flying along with a big hook hanging out the back with which they would snag the parachute while the UAV was in mid-air. So-called "ground recovery" was supposed to be an "acceptable alternative" when mid-air recovery was not possible, but typically some of the antennas and the ends of the wings would generally be sheared off on contact with the ground. and that's the minimum damage that could be expected.) In this case, however, it didn't stop after a few minutes, but just kept on flying until it ran out of fuel and landed somewhere near Baker, CA, having flown uncontrolled through three of the main commercial air corridors in and out of L.A. . . .
Then there was the time a couple of guys were driving through the Southwest. They headed south on I-25, then west on I-10. As they passed a road sign, one of them said,
"Tuck-son. That's the first town with a name that I've been able to pronounce since we left Alby-cue-cue."
Bob Hope was once given the name of this Arizona military base to read off of a cue card. Hilarious.
His comment on seeing Provo was that it is not the end of the world, but you can see the edge from there.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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