And when it got slow at the drags we would go gawk at all the airplanes,
especially at the CAP base.
Jim in Palmdale a San Fernando High graduate
From: Terry Hunt
> Doug and list, I brought up his name because I went to his house years ago
> with a friend, Dick Daniels. Dick and I were flight instructors at San
> Fernando airport, next to the drag strip. Dick did some crewing for Bob.
He
> now drives the Goodyear blimp. On Sundays, when things got slow at the
> airport, we would step across the fence and watch the drags. Guys like
Tony
> Nancy, Frank Pedregon, Gene Adams and others were running in those days.
It
> was like land speed racing is now. You could walk around and talk to
everyone.
> Very informal. Terry Hunt, Guam Bomb, #743
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