"Joe" wrote:

Lady Pilot wrote:

se 9TH STREET, BUT THE PLACE i WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS MY gRANDPARENTS.

I used to live on NE 12th ST about 10 years ago before I bought the home I
am currently living in now.

It's now an apartment complex. They had about 3 acres on the south side
of Moore. They both passed away in the early 80's

I heard today they are building a new fire station on some of that empty
acreage on the south side. If you haven't been there in the last 10 years,
you probably wouldn't recognize the place now.

Were you in the Navy?

Absolutely not! I would have never made it in the military. I've always
been great at giving commands, not receiving them. My pilots used to call
me "Boss Lady". :-)

Or just a contractor at a test facility?

Yes and no...

Some of the first women in the Navy reported aboard my ship just before
I reported. I did not think bird farms had women aboard since they are
consider combat shipsin the 80's, that rule has changed now, infact a
lady off the Gompers just took command of a new destroyer.

That is true. Many fighter pilots commented that the women in the different
branches of the service couldn't do what we were doing. When I first
started, they wanted us to pin the fake bombs, until one girl nearly got
sucked into jet engine.

I have pictures of the Thunderbirds and the Canadian snowbirds (actually
in
the cockpit) among a least 100 that they would send to me or I took
myself
on the tarmac.

That cool....I got to fly in a russian mig a few years back.

That really cool. I've never had that opportunity yet.

We had an International fighter pilot fly in from Europe and we took out a
couple of single engine Pipers over the nearby lake to have mock dog fights.
This guy was so excited about getting to learn how to fly a single recip
engine. I was amazed, to say the least.

My girlfriends would get calls from a couple of A-6 pilots and they said
they would be here in like a couple of hours from the west coast. Pretty
amazing, and all on the taxpayers dime.

Here's a 8x10 pic that Ed Schneider gave me back in the early '80s:
http://members.cox.net/capt.neal/fast%20eddie.jpg
(my name is cropped to protect the guilty)

If you see him now, he's really aged, but of course I still look the same!
;-)
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Pho...C00-0281-8.jpg

Someday I will get out the collection and make a website of memories during
that time. (Well, except for the love letters...)

LP