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    Richard
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    Restoring vintage Aircraft, motorcycles, building Hot Rods and racing.

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    I'm 65 and retired, my wife and I live and travel in our motorhome (snowbirds). I was in the Army from 1964-1966 and went to Viet Nam in June 1965. After I was honorable discharged I went to work for Lockheed and worked mostly aircraft untill retiring from Boeing. When not working aircraft I worked in Harley shops. I rode Harleys for 37 years and a few BMWs too. I also am a volunteer mechanic at the Seattle Museum of Flight Restoration Center at Paine Field in Everett Wa.
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  1. Jpony56hd
    Thats amazing. We thought we were living large back in 65 but when I look at pictures/videos of that place in the later years it is truly a sight to see. Thanks.
  2. Jpony56hd
    I was on the 307 that went swimming about 15 min before it splashed. It had just been restored and went to an air show in Montana as a test flight. The fuel gages quit working and they were sticking the tanks to get fuel levels. They misjudged a headwind and used more fuel than expected. They broke an oil line on an engine and worried about fire, landed at paine field in Everett Wa. about 45 miles north of Seattle and parked on the Boeing flight line. I was a flight line mechanic on the line at the time. We had a new line made in the tube shop and installed it. Before it left we got to go on board annd take a look. Then it left low on fuel and ran out on the way to Seattle.
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    Nothing like a mortar round to ruin your day. I was always amazed watching the caribou pilots come in and out on the old strip. At one point nobody would fly in because it got so bad. They would do a high speed air drop and the off shore winds would send half the load over the hills and to the other guys.
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    I found this site by accident while googling Cam Ranh Bay and just had to answer this thread. I was at Cam Ranh from june 1965-1966. I was in 864th Eng and we were the first US troops there. Our Co & Exec wanted to water ski and tried, we had two small landing craft that were too slow, the S Viet junk navy was patroling our coast, But their boats were too slow also. We had a small psp landing strip on the beach and a Bird dog observation airplane. It had taken a shot thru the engine and we were waiting for a replacement engine. The CO and our motor pool sargent (Redneck from the deep south) hatched a plan to make an air boat to water skie behind. The bad engine was crated up to be sent back when the new one came in. When the New engine arived, they took it away and placed the old one on the dock and blew it up claiming it had been hit in a mortor attack (the dock was shelled when we were unloading regularly). They installed the motor in and air boat that they had built and went skiing. Soo there Was water sking as far back as 1965.. I never went as there were sharks as big as pick up trucks in the bay.
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