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Many, many years ago, I was on one of my US MARINE CORPS "good deal" non-flying assignments, living in a tent at the BASRA Phillippine Air Force Base , between Cubi Point NAS and Clark AFB. I desparately needed to fly four hours in an airplane - any airplane - to get my flight pay for that month. Accordingly, I drove a jeep to Cubi point and borrowed a BEECHCRAFT SNB fron the U S Navy, I managed to get it started, and flew it around in circles for the required 4 hours. My co-pilot snapped a photo of me next to the SNB. When developed and printed, I sent it to my dear Mother in Philadelphia together with my usual letter. She replied: "...Donald, I thought you were a red hot fighter pilot; what kind of airplane is the one next to you?" I couldn't bring myself to tell Mom the actual facts, so I wrote and told her "keep this quiet, Mom, but the SNB is actually the new SECRET NAVY BOMBER !"
DON BOWEN
N6360V
FT PIERCE, FL
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