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Originally Posted by devodave

Western New York is nice and all (the summers here are gorgeous...little to no humidity), but I really miss this about Tidewater! I think of it as the sound of freedom! And it wasn't just Navy as Langley was on the other side of the James River and Marines from Cherry Point down in NC.

When I was a kid, we lived on an AF base for about 5 years (2x 2.5 yr) In between those, we lived in Pensacola, and got to see a bunch of Navy air traffic. For about 18 years, I lived near a base on the SE side of Houston, but there wasn't much activity. It was mostly used by NASA. I'd see a lot of Nasa T5s. I'd occasionally see a Super Guppy as well which was really amazing to see. Once a year, we'd get more traffic when the air show came to town. They'd practice for a week or two.

I really miss the traffic on the air base.
The first time that I was in Japan, even though it was an AF base, the flight line was Navy, so I remember seeing lots of P-3 Orions. We'd get planes doing touch and gos that I believe were from ships that were in port. We'd get some sort of (I think) prop type plane with a big disk on top (always called them AWACs). The second time I was there, we still saw a lot of the Orions, but we then got an F16 squadron/wing, so that was pretty exciting.

When I was there, where my dad worked, "echelon".


transition period


today the "elephant cage" or "dinosaur cage" seems to be gone.