Heh; the main window of my office, where I'm sitting right now, looks out at the approach path to Lackland AFB and I watch Texans, Talons, Galaxies and Starlifters all day, every day. I've seen the Thunderbirds, Air Force One, and all manner of other military and civilian hardware out my window. Hercs and KC-135s and Tweets, Mentors, F-16s, T-44s and more. Even had a B-17 and B-24 fly in one time. So, needless to say, I spend much of my day looking up ;o) I grew up less than a mile off the end of the parallel main runways at Laredo AFB during the cold war era and lived across the highway from Bergstrom AFB during the Vietnam era so I've always had things flying overhead, all hours of the day and night.
We had a flight of four Hercs come in last week and it was awesome to watch their flight in, break, and land. And in case you like Hercs as much as I do, you may want to look at the videos of the carrier landings that were made off the deck of the Forrestal in a Herc. No arrestor cables for landings, no catapult for takeoffs. That is one incredible airplane. http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130_forrestal.asp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sa3OGnFGlAOscar Zuniga Air Camper NX41CC San Antonio, TX mailto: [email protected] website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
