lnuss

Dave,

I just now discovered this PM, after sending the previous PM. I spent all my 55th time at Forbes. It was kind of ironic, in that when I was a kid in Abilene, TX, and Dyess AFB was new, they had an open house where I got to see the B-47 up close, even looking into the cockpit. I fell in love with the airplane, made plastic models of it, and I still think it's one of the prettiest aircraft ever made, much more so than the B-52. The ironic part is that a few years later I was actually working on them.

Curious about you being in ABQ -- I lived there from 1971 to 1982, when I got promoted and AT&T moved me to the Denver area. I flew out of Coronado Airport. In 1974 I started towing gliders (part time, of course) for Pegasus Aerial Sports and, when Pegasus branched out into flight training I instructed for them as well. Lotta good memories there. Is The Barn still there? The wife and I enjoyed going there occasionally.

To be continued...