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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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I rode out and watched B-52's as a kid. They would land pretty sideways when it was windy. Big and loud, really loud taking off, like louder than a Ted Nugent concert, and he cracked the ceiling at Memorial Auditorium