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Cub Driver writes:

"Great Artiste" (reportedly having served some time in SaR) was restored
and displayed at Pease AFB, and moved to Whiteman AFB when the New Hampshire
base closed.

Good grief. I didn't know I'd lived next door to the Great Artiste for
all those years. I do remember seeing a B-29 "on the hard" near the
main gate, but never paid any attention to it.

I don't know for certain that the airframe was truly that of "Great
Artiste". The base shops sure did a good job on her, though.

They had a pretty good little display there, at one point - The B-29,
a KC-97, a B-52D, and, the piece de resistance, what had been the last
flying B-47. (Which flew in in '77 or '78, with Navy markings, and a
crew from North American Autonetics.) The only types missing that the
509th BW had flown were a B-50 (Just not too many of them), and a
KB-29 (Ditto). I'm glad that at least the rare stuff got moved to
Whiteman. We'll just say that they went out there for the good weather.


Pease International Tradeport is still very much with us, though
quieter now than in the days when it was home to the B-52s. I haven't
landed there myself, but I often have occasion to talk to the tower,
which is still wont to tell people: "Check gear down and locked."

And, of course, for your J-3, you could land across that runway if you
had to.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster