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- Page 16 and 17: CHAPTER I First Meeting When I was
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- Page 32 and 33: Full thrust on takeoff- a sight and
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Sled driver's view of the approachi
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Streaked with fuel, a satisfied Bla
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THE DEEP BLUE It felt good to level
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SYSTEMS Though the RSO was responsi
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Mach 3 if the autopilot failed, as
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eflections and could more easily se
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"We did Nebraska in 7Y2 minutes tod
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Passing by Mount Lassen the rigors
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She was an armful in the landing pa
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Sled taxis in after flight. Open dr
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f"' Once training was completed, th
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The HABU patch was a prized collect
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The guys that kept us flying. Long
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Every landing required a chute, and
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Beale tanker displays nose art refl
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Climbing out on a foggy day in Engl
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After hours in a clear blue sky, co
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helmet, overshooting my mouth and p
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THE UNPREDICTABLE One night near th
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Ferrying the Jet from Beale AFB to
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Most of our sorties from Okinawa to
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A barren hostile Iandi with no sign
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A self portrait, helmet visor refle
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path through the evening sky. The c
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T-38, the sports car of Beale. Auth
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CHAPTER VI On Display I was fortuna
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I really enjoyed talking to these y
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Flying the SR in front of thousands
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folks on the ground as we thundered
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A flurry of excitement greeted us o
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he could take his people in the wea
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the program couldn't last forever.
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hoping somehow to keep her alive, b
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Photography Notes All the photograp
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Like the Jet my cameras had to be r
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make if only there was more light.