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July 16th 05, 05:28 AM

On 15 Jul 2005 03:14:21 -0700, wrote:

I recall fondly a stunt I saw years ago at Moffett AFB in California
during a show there.

Moffitt (note spelling - everyone gets it wrong) was never an Air
Force Base. It was a Naval Air Station (NAS Moffitt Field) until it
was recommissioned as a NASA facility (Moffitt Field Federal
Airport, IIRC) NASA's Ames Research Center and Dryden Flight Test
Facility and others are there and the Navy is gone with the
exception of special flights.

NASA still has their big wind tunned there. An engineering school
classmate of mine worked for them for 30 years, retired, and came
back as a contract employee for another 20......our taxpayers' money
at work.

At the south end of the field was a large building which we
affectionateley dubbed "The Blue Cube". It was offically named
Onizuka Air Force Base after the Challenger disaster. For a long
time it was the home of the National Reconnaissance Office (What
office? What cube? What Building?) but they moved the operation
elsewhere and caused a big layoff at Lockheed which ran it. I did
read/hear that OAFB was decommissioned recently.

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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane