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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Dichotomy on October 21, 2011, 12:01:05 PM
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On the phone right now.
Well, listening to an old vet tell his stories.
Be jealous :D
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That was cool listening to him talk about his SAC days flying from 'Utah that air base there? To Thule T-H-U-L-E,' and so on.
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how'd you manage that?
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The company owners dad. He calls in here regularly more for somebody to talk to (his son) than anything else.
It's not hard to get him started telling tales especially if you're interested enough to just listen and occasionally comment. I didn't find out he was a 29 pilot until last Friday so when he calls in here, I've taken to getting him talking by asking a question about his planes.
Serves two purposes 1) (and the most important) giving an old vet a set of ears and let him, to an extent, relive his glory year and 2) I get to hear some cool stuff that you don't really read about in the books ya know?
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:O you lucky dog...some guys have all the luck.... :cry
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That's awesome. Share a few of his stories sometime (If it's okay with him)?
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I will if the boss will let me keep talking to him. He walked in while I was listening and I wrote 'it's (grandads name)'. He eyerolled and said 'just put him on hold'.
I wanted to toss the disrespectful little !%#% through the wall.
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Treasures that we lose access to every day, glad you are doing a good thing :aok
Just out of curiousity..Bendover, err Wendover Utah? Tibbets did some training there.
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I'll ask next time Rino but keep in mind the details are slipping for the gentleman. I'd love to get him here in my chair and let him take a 29 up again. Not going to happen but that would be seriously cool to see. I'd cheerfully pony up for a yoke and a throttle system just to watch that.
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That is cool that you are doing that. I have talked to a P-51K pilot of 353rd FG once in my area. He talked for hours on what he did and was impress what i know of 353rd FG concidering that is the squad i am on.
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One of my swimming pool customers was B-26 pilot and loved to show pics of Luftwaffe bullet holes in his airplane from many Italian missions. He did say when the LW boys showed up the situation became a bit tense.
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I had the pleasure of meeting & talking with a RAF Spitfire pilot several years ago. The meeting was by chance and shed a lot of light on what combat was like during the fight for England. Flight of four into a battle and only one returning, pretty sobering......... :salute :airplane:
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My first boss was a B26 pilot who ran into headwinds on a long trip that left him worried about fuel so he landed at a small RAF airfield and they refused him fuel.
As he left, he taxi'd close to thier tent/buildings pivoted 90 degrees and blew them down.