Steve,

Somehow, I always felt close to you. Now I know why. How many airborne near misses can we have?

P-3's is neat airplanes. I have many peelot and navaguesser friends having flown them. It's just
that you all get too close to everything.

After I got done taking off, flying straight and level?, descending, and landing (all at 150 kts.)
C-119's (Marine Corps designated R4-Q [for R4QU2]), I got to fly C-130's and then, would you
believe, I ended up ferrying HU-16's to VietNam after the crotch - as an Air Force reservist. Yes
sir, P-3's and HU-16's, that's living (you must have been stationed at Moffit?). Damn small world.
Don't forget to keep your nose down in the turns.

As far as abuse from all these forums are concerned, you offer too much good stuff to be attacked.
I just keep trying to keep the wings level while offering a viable target. I can't get over the
rush of being shot at and missed.

It was so much easier keeping your tail feathers together then - than wrangling with this bunch.
Boy, they are both fun, but I'd rather be airborne than buried. I never knew there was so
much involved in PCB stuff. Back then, there wasn't - pretty much still the same - just different
ways of approaching the same target.

I didn't know Leslie O. Connally was an original flight crew memember when we took off in 1984, and
before, with TI's CIC at Sperry and Lockheed. Thanks for your contribution Leslie. I always thought
of you as a much younger person while being so very knowledgeable. Now I know you to be very
knowledgeable and young at heart.

See from you soon,

Earl

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