On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 02:11:32 GMT, wrote:

Is that a fact! Well it so happens that the Navy put all of the
aircraft in the area in the blimp hangars at NAS Richmond when a
hurricane hit the Miami area just after WW II. The hangars collasped,
caught fire, and 365 aircraft and 25 blimps were lost. I also have a
photo taken at NAAS Bronson Field showing SNJs chained down with the
gear retracked and sitting on tires during a hurricane. So the
military does not always evac all aircraft.

Oh, please. You're talking about something that happened nearly 60
years ago. The rest of us are talking about *today*, or at least the
recent past.

In the 1940's we didn't even have decent hurricane prediction, so we
had fleets sailing into storms, destroyer sunk in hurricanes, aircraft
carriers decks crushed. Aircraft were slower, of shorter range,
aerial refuelling didn't exist, so evacuations would be slower or
impossible considering lack of advance notice.

Why don't you join the rest of us in the 21st (or even late 20th)
century?

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