[ARC5] Lady Be Good - more detail.

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The first time I went to Libya was I think early November, 1977.  Due to a 
communications screwup, no one from Oxy met us at the airport, and we 
eventually caught a ride to the guest house with another expat we met.  
Apparantly, just before the revolution, someone (the US probably) was building a new 
divided 4-lane highway from Tripoli out to Wheelis.  The guy we were riding 
with said that after the revolution, the Libyans completed the construction, 
but for years operated it as two parallel 2-lane highways.

In a message dated 5/1/2011 10:52:42 AM Central Daylight Time, 
telegrapher at q.com writes: 
> I was in and out of Tripoli (Wheelus AFB) in the years between 1965 and 
> 1968. Mostly it was used as a rotational fighter bomber gunnery training 
> base.  There were F-100's and F-105's from England and Germany there for about 
> 10-11 months out of the year.  During the two slack months in the middle 
> of the summer they did runway repair work.  Besides that it was to hot and 
> the fighter bombers used up a lot of runway getting off the ground.  Almost 
> to much according to some of the pilots.  Flying with wing pylon tanks and 
> an internal fuel tank in the bombbay along with the other 2000 gals 
> internally and then added armament for range delivery, they really had to grunt to 
> get airborne in the warmer months.
>  
> I only saw one B-47, probably an E model but when he landed he was kept at 
> the far end of the runway all by himself.  We could see him setting there 
> off in the distance but never was able to get close to him.  We knew what 
> he was doing but that was all.  No other spook aircraft that i can recall.  
>  
> Larry
> W0OGH
> 
>  
> >From: WA5CAB at cs.com
> >Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 11:15:39 -0400
> >To: gewhite at crosslink.net
> >CC: Arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> >Subject: Re: [ARC5] Lady Be Good - more detail.
> >
> >I was actually at Zeutina (sp), not Ras Lanuf (that was a later trip). 
> >This was all after the revolution, so things were quite different!
> >
> >In a message dated 5/1/2011 10:01:20 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> >gewhite at crosslink.net writes: 
> >>I was briefly in Libya as a reporter in 1959, at Sidi Slimane, I 
> >>think a US or NATO B-47 base at the time, shortly after the Lady Be Good 
> 
> >>was found and it was the talk of the base. I would have liked to fly out 
> 
> >>to the site, but I was assigned to a Navy R4D-A which was not allowed to 
> 
> >>take sight-seeing diversions. Went from there to Port Lauyte (sp?) in 
> >>Morocco.
> >
> 

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