"Alan Minyard" wrote in message
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On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:20:04 GMT, "cj" wrote:

I was on a civilian firefighting helicopter based at George in
1981.
We were on the edge of transient parking past Chopper Ops and near
the
California Air National Guard hanger. A few times we got to see
the
Delta Darts go chase a blip. They would roll out of the hanger two
at
a time and go vertical ASAP - very cool.

- cj

None of which is impressive compared to a cat launch :-)

Al Minyard

I don't doubt that!

I didn't go everywhere at George (especially immediately after the
Gulf of Sidra showdown when the nice folk with the blue uniforms and
white gloves started wearing camo and carrying automatic weapons), but
I don't seem to recall seeing a catapult there.

However, there were some arrest cables on the runway - they didn't get
used much.

-cj