From: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V4 #53 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Monday, 1 November 1993 Volume 04 : Number 053 In this issue: What did I miss at March AFB? What did I miss at March AFB? Re: What did I miss at March AFB? Re: Skunk Works Digest V4 #47 See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 00:46:39 PDT Subject: What did I miss at March AFB? I was driving south, Saturday afternoon, on the 215 freeway here in Southern California (I was on my way to the railroad festival in Perris, CA). As I approached March Air Force Base, I saw a B-1 bomber making low level passes (I thought it was a training exercise). As I went past March's runway, I got to see the eye-popping sight of a B-1 coming straight at me, low and fast. What made it even more spectacular was the Hollywood style explosions going off at March -- apparently this was a simulated bombing run. I saw a crowd of people at March -- did I miss an air show?? Travel tip: because of the high population density in Southern California, the only air show that I'm aware of, in this area, that can safely perform live firing at an air show, is up at the Navy air station at Pt. Mugu, CA. I've seen such wonders as Sidewinders fired at flares and an A-10 open up with its cannon offshore up at Pt. Mugu. Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 00:46:39 PDT Subject: What did I miss at March AFB? I was driving south, Saturday afternoon, on the 215 freeway here in Southern California (I was on my way to the railroad festival in Perris, CA). As I approached March Air Force Base, I saw a B-1 bomber making low level passes (I thought it was a training exercise). As I went past March's runway, I got to see the eye-popping sight of a B-1 coming straight at me, low and fast. What made it even more spectacular was the Hollywood style explosions going off at March -- apparently this was a simulated bombing run. I saw a crowd of people at March -- did I miss an air show?? Travel tip: because of the high population density in Southern California, the only air show that I'm aware of, in this area, that can safely perform live firing at an air show, is up at the Navy air station at Pt. Mugu, CA. I've seen such wonders as Sidewinders fired at flares and an A-10 open up with its cannon offshore up at Pt. Mugu. Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ From: dadams@netcom.com (Dean Adams) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 12:36:31 -0800 Subject: Re: What did I miss at March AFB? TRADER@cup.portal.com says... >As I went past March's runway, I got to see the eye-popping sight of >a B-1 coming straight at me, low and fast. What made it even more >spectacular was the Hollywood style explosions going off at March -- >apparently this was a simulated bombing run. >I saw a crowd of people at March -- did I miss an air show?? Yep, that was their annual air show... although it sounds like you still got to see a pretty good "show" anyway. :-) >because of the high population density in Southern California, >the only air show that I'm aware of, in this area, that can safely >perform live firing at an air show, is up at the Navy air station at >Pt. Mugu, CA. I've seen such wonders as Sidewinders fired at flares >and an A-10 open up with its cannon offshore up at Pt. Mugu. Well... unfortunately someone decided it was no longer "safe", since they have not done anything like that at Mugu for at least the last several years. All they have along those lines these days is the same sort of "hollywood type explosions" as other bases. - -dean ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 16:46:07 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Skunk Works Digest V4 #47 You know and I know and all thinking people know that the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels aren't regular pilots doing regular things in regular planes, but the announcers and the brochures all say that they are. OK, they do say that they're highly trained, but they spend a lot of time harping on how normal all this stuff is and how little of our taxpayer dollars are wasted and how quickly they could go to war with only a new paint job .... Remember to change the battery on your irony and sarcasm detector today, when you reset your clocks. Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V4 #53 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "listserv@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@ecn.purdue.edu". 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