On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 20:41:32 -0700, Jim Richardson
wrote:

Once traded a locker full of F106 nosegear hydraulic parts to the Cal
ANG for more beer and liquor that the whole ECM shop could dring in a
*Very* long weekend. The locker had been sitting in the hanger, locked,
for so long, that no-one knew what was in it. Left overs from when the
base flew F106's, *20* years before.

I used to be the Electronics Department Head of Sumter Area Technical
College in Sumter, SC, home of Shaw AFB. In the yard of the school we
had a couple of Shaw's old recon aircraft on nice display stands from
the air base. They really dressed up the place and showed our
partnership with SAFB.

About twice a month, give or take a week, a dark blue USAF stepvan
from this shop or that shop would show up at the display. Men in
working uniform would get out and put ladders up to the hatches on the
planes and went inside. They'd come out with equipment, wiring
harnesses, instruments, and other important looking pieces-parts....I
suppose to keep online Air Force planes up and running....

Kinda scary for those of us living across the street from the air base
runway.....(c;

Before the school needed the property to build more bureaucracy and
gave the planes back, they were mostly stripped out inside.....


Larry

Extremely intelligent life must exist in the universe.
You can tell because they never tried to contact us.