[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 137, Issue 29

[Chuck]

I grew up about 30 miles south of Ft. Worth in the fifties. Convair 
test-flew the B-36s over our area. We lived in a small town on top of a 
hill about 800-1000 feet high and the planes used to come over so low 
you could clearly see the pilots in the cockpit. (I would guess about 
1500 -2000 feet high).
We kids would hear them long before they appeared and run outside and 
wave to the flight crew.
The noise was terrific and would shake the house and rattle the windows. 
We kids LOVED it
In the summer the shock wave would stir up a dust.
The town was prepared by Civil Defense with food, medical and other 
supplies stored in warehouses for "refugees/survivors" from a nuclear 
attack on Ft. Worth. (Right ;-})
And many of us including myself were members of the Ground Observer 
Corp. I have often wished I had preserved the book with all its aircraft 
ID info and drawings including
the exhaust patterns of Soviet aircraft.
Ahhh The Memories ;-}}
Chuck