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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
As kids on windy days we liked to ride our bikes out to the end of the runway and watch the crosswind landings. Of course the B-52 with the swiveling landing gear was the coolest, but mostly they had C-130s at the time at Maxwell AFB. It is great fun as a kid to see landings with a major pucker factor for the pilots.
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At 59 years old, I still do that at Maxwell AFB, on my bike.
Okay, so I don’t hang out at the end of the runway, but it’s fun to watch them while I’m riding loops around the flight line. Thursdays seem to be when the C-130s from the 908th Airlift Wing practice. The only BUFF I’ve seen here in the past 10 years is the one on static display.