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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Any USAF vets here?
Ones interested in the old birds? Going through papers found at Mom's after she died back in the early 90's, I found a letter written by my Uncle Forrest describing his duties in Newfoundland during the beginning stages of the cold war. He was a full bird colonel in command of the 1805th AACS Group.
"When I start my monthly trek, we start at Torbay airport, St, Johns, Newfoundland; go to Ernest Harmon AFB, Stephensville, Newfoundland; then to Goose Bay Air base, Labrador, then to Thule, Greenland; Sondrestromfjord, Greenland; then over the Greenland Icecap to Keflavik, Iceland; back to Narsarsuak, Greenland; and then home to Torbay Airport and Pepperell AF base at St, Johns...
I have my own 4 engine C-54 aircraft..."
Wow! I knew Uncle Forrest was a Colonel, but all of this was news to me. He went on to describe that the navigator used Loran and star shooting. Sounds primitive to me, but evidently how they did it back in the day.
Anyway, four engine C-54??? Anybody here know who made them? Is there a civilian name?
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"Now, to put a water-cooled engine in the rear and to have a radiator in the front, that's not very intelligent."
-Ferry Porsche (PANO, Oct. '73) (I, Paul D. have loved this quote since 1973. It will remain as long as I post here.)
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