[MilCom] Air Transport 530; reminiscences

[AllanStern at aol.com]

It is Mon, 1:40pm EDT (1740).
"Air Transport 530," a USAF  contractor DC-8, has just departed Patrick AFB 
on his weekly trip to the  down-range Eastern Test Range sites: Antigua and 
Ascension.  Some of you  might remember, as I do, the good old Gemini-Apollo days 
when the supply  aircraft flew to many many downrange sites that have since 
fallen victim to  obsolescence by tracking technology.  Remember all those 
Zantop DC-6 cargo  planes that would park along Patrick's fenceline on A-1A near 
old hangar 800  that has also disappeared?  
   I consider my most fortunate circumstance was to  have been born in 
America.  My second more fortunate circumstances was to  have lived in Cocoa Beach 
during the Gemini and Apollo programs. You had to be  there to understand.
 
AL STERN  Satellite Beach FL
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