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Scan from old slides. Late '60s
Aviano AFB Italy ciao Fabio |
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I assumed these pics were from Aviano as soon as I saw them. I was there
briefly a couple of times during this very period, as a military dependent, and still remember the cut of the mountains in the background!. Brian |
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Hope you had a good time
ciao Fabio ha scritto nel messaggio g.com... I assumed these pics were from Aviano as soon as I saw them. I was there briefly a couple of times during this very period, as a military dependent, and still remember the cut of the mountains in the background!. Brian |
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The bad part was that I got there from Rome (where I was living at the time)
to have the medical personnel at the Base evaluate the case of Hepatitis B I had contracted. Obviously, I got over it, though I was flat on my back in bed for 63 days straight during the school year, and after my return to school was a good year getting my strength fully back. The great part was how I got to Aviano. My Dad was a rated USAF pilot stationed at a pointless little "flight service" unit at Ciampino Air Base outside Rome after doing a year in Vietnam. There were two USAF C-47s at Ciampino, and he was able to fly me up there and back twice in the one his unit could use to log hours and get monthly flight pay. THAT was fabulous! A bucket seat in a shaking, vibrating and noisy WWII era aircraft looking out the window at the R-1830 and Ham Standard prop scant feet away, plus a few stretches where I got to take the controls in the pilot's seat as we headed North. And the absolute best part was sitting on the engineer's fold out jump seat just behind and between the two pilots' seats as we made a steep descent and landing approach, then touched down on the runway with those dramatic mountains off to the left. THAT's why I remember them so vividly. The sight is really burned into my memory. The two flights up and back in the C-47 were almost worth getting sick! They were never-to-be-forgotten journeys the way flight was meant to be experienced, versus the antiseptic, sardine can misery of flying commercial today. Brian |
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Looks like the best part was worth the deal. I can't find a pic of the C-47
you probably flew but it should be somwhere.. Take care ciao Fabio ha scritto nel messaggio g.com... The bad part was that I got there from Rome (where I was living at the time) to have the medical personnel at the Base evaluate the case of Hepatitis B I had contracted. Obviously, I got over it, though I was flat on my back in bed for 63 days straight during the school year, and after my return to school was a good year getting my strength fully back. The great part was how I got to Aviano. My Dad was a rated USAF pilot stationed at a pointless little "flight service" unit at Ciampino Air Base outside Rome after doing a year in Vietnam. There were two USAF C-47s at Ciampino, and he was able to fly me up there and back twice in the one his unit could use to log hours and get monthly flight pay. THAT was fabulous! A bucket seat in a shaking, vibrating and noisy WWII era aircraft looking out the window at the R-1830 and Ham Standard prop scant feet away, plus a few stretches where I got to take the controls in the pilot's seat as we headed North. And the absolute best part was sitting on the engineer's fold out jump seat just behind and between the two pilots' seats as we made a steep descent and landing approach, then touched down on the runway with those dramatic mountains off to the left. THAT's why I remember them so vividly. The sight is really burned into my memory. The two flights up and back in the C-47 were almost worth getting sick! They were never-to-be-forgotten journeys the way flight was meant to be experienced, versus the antiseptic, sardine can misery of flying commercial today. Brian |
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Sorry but I cant find the C-47. Here is one of the first C-130 arrived in
the early 60s in Aviano Fabio "Fabio" ha scritto nel messaggio . .. Looks like the best part was worth the deal. I can't find a pic of the C-47 you probably flew but it should be somwhere.. Take care ciao Fabio ha scritto nel messaggio g.com... The bad part was that I got there from Rome (where I was living at the time) to have the medical personnel at the Base evaluate the case of Hepatitis B I had contracted. Obviously, I got over it, though I was flat on my back in bed for 63 days straight during the school year, and after my return to school was a good year getting my strength fully back. The great part was how I got to Aviano. My Dad was a rated USAF pilot stationed at a pointless little "flight service" unit at Ciampino Air Base outside Rome after doing a year in Vietnam. There were two USAF C-47s at Ciampino, and he was able to fly me up there and back twice in the one his unit could use to log hours and get monthly flight pay. THAT was fabulous! A bucket seat in a shaking, vibrating and noisy WWII era aircraft looking out the window at the R-1830 and Ham Standard prop scant feet away, plus a few stretches where I got to take the controls in the pilot's seat as we headed North. And the absolute best part was sitting on the engineer's fold out jump seat just behind and between the two pilots' seats as we made a steep descent and landing approach, then touched down on the runway with those dramatic mountains off to the left. THAT's why I remember them so vividly. The sight is really burned into my memory. The two flights up and back in the C-47 were almost worth getting sick! They were never-to-be-forgotten journeys the way flight was meant to be experienced, versus the antiseptic, sardine can misery of flying commercial today. Brian |
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On Wed, 13 May 2009 23:08:43 +0000, bdoneill wrote:
The two flights up and back in the C-47 were almost worth getting sick! They were never-to-be-forgotten journeys the way flight was meant to be experienced, versus the antiseptic, sardine can misery of flying commercial today. You remind me of the TWA trip from NYC to LAX (with a refueling stop in Denver) in (iirc!) a DC-7 in 1955. I had enlisted, just graduated from FT (Fire Control Tech) school in Bainbridge, Md., and was assigned to the U.S.S. Eversole, DD-789. She was home-ported in Long Beach (amazing, huge floating crane at the shipyard, back then). I sat near the wing root, and the hours of noise and vibration were, in all, rather difficult. Ofcourse, the flight took longer, too. Back then, there was still some of the sense that flying was something special, and the crew had a sense of pride in being part of flying. Regards, nb who saw no action, only Taiwan patrol |
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Fabio:
I will have to check with my father (still alive in his 80s) to see if he has any photos of the C-47s at Ciampano. Brian |
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