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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
Williams Field was right across from the GM Desert Proving Ground when I was there in the mid 1990's. They flew AT-6 trainers for the most part. We used to watch them circling and say "...look at those clowns. All they do is fly around all day".
We had a good relationship with the Air Force base and would occasionally exchange managers for the day. Naturally we laughed when it got back to us that the guys at the Air Force base said "...look at those clowns. All they do is drive around all day".
K
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Williams Field would host an air show once a year called "Willie Days". Among other things they would have the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds come and perform for the event. We would clamber out to the roof of our building and watch them practice the week before.
One Sunday afternoon they had a vintage aircraft go down on our property (a Corsair if I remember correctly). It landed out next to the Ride and Handling loop where we would do shock absorber tuning.
They had the mess cleaned up and within about 2 hours you couldn't tell anything had ever happened there.
K
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