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Originally Posted by Seahawk
I flew into Alameda a bunch in the '80's. Incredible views on approach.  |
My dad and I used to watch transient F-4Js (probably from Miramar, etc.) come down the Estuary on Friday afternoons and land west on two-five at Alameda back in the late '70s. He worked at the Tribune and we'd go up to the Roof Garden (cafe) and watch them howl down final. Then I flew in there several times in the USAF in both T-38s and KC-135Rs. Loved doing VFR tours in the T-38 at 1000 AGL all over the north bay.
Poor quality shot of the four retired Navy Martin Mars flyingboats at Alameda in 1959, three years before the Canadians came and bought them to use as fire bombers:
