[K6NCG] More K6NCG stuff

[Bill Crowley]

What Ron didn't tell about our flight (There was more than one -- we would usually fly somewhere for dinner) was that we flew to Sacramento and had dinner at the airport, overloking the main runway.  While we were dining, we watched a Japan Air Lines Boeing 727 doing touch-and-goes.  After dinner, we went back to our bird, and Ron got permission to taxi and then take off.  When we were about 500 feet off the ground, the plane suddenly began to shake and lose altitude, and the JAL 727 went over the top of us, close enough so we could see the fire in its jets.  The controller in the tower had either let us go too soon or let the JAL flight make a pass too soon, and we were in the turbulence, trying desperately to stay in the air.  It was only a great job by Ron that kept us from being the next day's Sacramento Bee headline, "Two sailors die in small plane crash."
 
73,
 
Bill, K1NIT



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 From: Ronald Carman <rrcarman at centurytel.net>
To: gm5bkc at gmail.com; Discussion of K6NCG <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] More K6NCG stuff
  

    Hi, Glenn!  I will look around for some more photos - I sent some prints to 
someone several years ago to post and
never saw them again - either on the web site or anywhere else.  I still have 
the negatives from over 45 years ago and
will try to find them in my old boxes of stuff.  My, how time flies when you're 
having fun!  I joined the aero club at NAS
Alameda and received my private pilot's license in 1966; Bill (K1NIT) got brave 
and went up for a flight with me right
after I got my license.  The San Francisco Bay area is not the best place to 
learn to fly with all the fog & clouds.
    Anyway, to David R. - the last time I saw Gina was in May 1966, about the 
time I got my private license, but soon
after that my time was up and I couldn't wait to head back to Oklahoma!  Never 
heard from her again but she hadn't
remarried when I left TI at the end of May 1966.  I now live in central Texas 
with my wife of 43½ years; our two kids
live in the Houston area.  After I worked for the feds all those years, I 
couldn't talk our son out of going to work for
the federal governmentt as well and he works for U.S. Customs at Houston 
Intercontinental Airport!
    Good to see some activity on this site again; that old shack on TI quickly 
became my Navy Home!
    Ron, K5CXH



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn AE0Q" <gm5bkc at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of K6NCG" <k6ncg at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [K6NCG] k6ncg reflector


> Ron,
>
>  I would sure like to have scans of your old T.I. photos to add to the
> K6NCG web site on QSL.NET.  Do you have them in digital form or can you
> scan them?
>
> Glenn AE0Q
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Ronald Carman <rrcarman at centurytel.net>wrote:
>
>>    Wow - talk about a blast from the past!  I was a member of K6NCG from
>> 1964 to 1966 and remember Gina - a good
>> looking young lady.  She wasn't a ham but did hang around Building 318
>> which is where I met her.  I still have some old
>> photos taken back then.  Anyway, I's unsure of what kind of reflector you
>> are talking about - a UHF antenna or what?
>> However, I now live in central Texas and it would be an awfully long drive
>> for me to come out there for Field Day!
>> Ron, K5CXH
>>
>
> -- 
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