"Ron" wrote in message
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Were you in pilot training at Hondo? I flew there earlier in 2001 on a
cloud
seeding project, right before the airport was...ahem..hit by a tornado.

Ron
Pilot/Wildland Firefighter

A tornado??? See.......!!! That cloud seeding will get ya EVERY time!!!!!!
:-))))
Next thing you know, they'll be cloning sheep!!!! :-)))))


haha...actually the tornado happened right after I delivered the plane back to
Fargo ND at the right after the end of the seeding contract...Well obviously
not the end of the storm season, since that tornado hit the airport right when
i got back.

I did however get back from a seeding mission to find the WW2 hangar we used,
to be quite on fire. Did manage to move my car just in time, but lots of
planes were lot, not the mention that very large hangar with lots of military
stenciling to still be found all around in there.
Avweb.com published the photos I took of the hangar upon my return. Even found
some writing in the concrete next to the hangar from a 1943 navigator class.

Was probably an electrical short in some of that old wiring and then that old
wood really took off and the hangar was completely destroyed.

Cloud seeding into thunderstorms sure was interesting and rather educational
too for knowing the dynamics of thunderstorm development and how it related to
aviation.

One of my copilots is now at Kingville NAS for instrument training and I think
all of his friends and instructors have heard all the stories, especially a
certain case of nausea I had after a very early and very unexpected flight on a
early sunday morning that utilized a empty beef jerky bag.


Ron
Pilot/Wildland Firefighter