On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:08:27 -0800, jps wrote:



Vandenberg.
Reminds me of the day that when we left San Diego airport on a SW
flight heading to SFO. Female pilot announced that she would try to
time her arrival over Vandenberg where a missile shot was scheduled
that evening. She arrived just in time, tipped the aircraft slightly
to the left and we saw the ignition, lift off and slow climb to about
20K ft. where it then slowly headed west leaving a spectacular
colorful contrail. Later we read it was an ICBM launch and that it's
target was somewhere far in the Pacific about 4K miles away.
It was an awesome sight to see.
Eddie