[MilCom] DACTYL 80 brightens the Florida sky!!

[AllanStern at aol.com]

     One of the very few C-32A acft in existence came to work the pattern at 
Patrick AFB yesterday, and I was able to snap a few decent photos of him.  The 
robin's-egg-blue Florida sky contrasted with the sexy all-white gleaming 
image of this beautiful bird.
     He arrived at 11:35am EDT (1535z), first working radar approaches with 
Approach and then flying the pattern VFR with the tower.
     This time he did not come up on 344.6 to get the weather back home at 
Eglin, as C-32As usually do.  Instead he explained to the tower that he was 
VHF-only.  Also, when getting his clearance back to VPS he IDd his acft type to 
Patrick Dispatch as a "T/B-752."  So we have some more mystery to add to the 
history of these hush-hush birds.
     I have placed three of the photos I shot of DACTYL 80 on my webpage at:
http://hometown.aol.com/allanstern/myhomepage/index.html
     Just scroll down below the frequencies and enjoy the view. Is he 
beautiful or what?

AL STERN  Satellite Beach FL  (28-11N  80-36W) monitoring
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 Avon Park Bombing Range (KAGR)   Cape Canaveral AFS (KXMR)
 JSTARS E-8 Acft Integration Facility, Melbourne IAP (KMLB)
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 Life Member: Missile, Space and Range Pioneers.
 http://hometown.aol.com/allanstern/myhomepage/index.html (My Freqs)
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