Gord,

Thanks for the share. Sounds like the winter wx on P.E.I. is much nastier
than that afflicting the Puget Sound / Georgia Straits corner of the world.
Then, too, both Comox and Whidbey are in the lee of mountains that block
much of the really bad stuff, leaving both fields usually with nothing worse
than a duty 2K foot clag layer.

Unfortunately, our generation never got a regular exchange going with the
Comox folks. I suppose this was due to a lack of common community interest
(Comox - VP, Whidbey - VA & VAQ). Now that Whidbey is much more a VP base,
I wonder if this has changed.

Is Comox still active, and if so, in what capacity?

One thing's for sure - no more Argus.

--
Mike Kanze

"We all know the modern American campus, or think we do: concentration
camps of the mind where students are tortured by baby-boom professors whose
speech codes, leftist politics and unseemly obsession with race, sex and
gender have distorted the ideal of higher education."

- Philip Terzian


"Gord Beaman" wrote in message
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"Mike Kanze" wrote:

[snippage]

Yes, we used to do the same 'mini exchange tour' here also. We'd
usually exchange visits with NAS Brunswick in Maine, but we
usually took their crew flying (and they took us when it was
their turn) I know that they were equipped with the P-3. Then, of
course, we'd need to uphold our honour as big time drinkers as
they did their damnedest to out drink us...god, those were
hellish times.

We were stationed at Summerside on Prince Edward Island, one
hellish spot for weather in the winter. I've spent many stressful
minutes on the button with full fuel, full crew, full armament at
0400L standing up through the cockpit upper hatch to my waist
with an Aldis lamp trying to see if the driving snow was sticking
to the wings and hoping to make a good assessment so as to avoid
giving poor advice to the VPCC and ending up in a flaming ball
somewhere in the over-run. I think we paid for all the fun times
with those minutes.

I believe that I'm near the end of a near thirty year search
here...we had the second of our Argus go in here in 1977 (three
of the 16 man crew were killed) and the Control Tower taped the
happening. I've just now got a handle on a copy and it should be
here Thursday or Friday. (yippee)
--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)