On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:44:37 GMT, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
wrote:

We had the Thunderbirds come through Lajes Field
in the Azores once and I can remember sitting up on the hillside looking down on
the F-100s as they flew *below* us.

Pretty damned neat stuff.

I saw the Thunderbirds with the F-100s at Sewart AFB at Smyrna
Tennessee in (dang, when was the last Ice Age?). My younger brother
and I managed to find a spot away from the crowd on a little hill.
Back in the 60s you could actually do that. One of the solo pilots
went by our "hill", and as God is my witness, when he pulled up, the
tail didn't miss us by more than 20 feet.

Mike Weller