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While snooping about in Google Earth looking for the NC-130A and F-4Ds dumped at Pierce Field on the Eglin reservation, I came across another auxiliary field with some interesting old fighters in the weeds. The one looks to me like an F-101, and there's *maybe* an F-100 nearby. But what really struck me were a couple of others - now, I'm *sure* that these are Phantoms or something else, but at first glance, they kind of looked like F3Hs! I'm certain that's a trick of the light and my aging eyes:

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Chris

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I don't know if it is still there, but just off the road heading out to the ranger camp, there was a derelict F-100 sitting on its belly just off the road behind an old berm. A friend and I found it one day when we were looking for a place to practice shooting our bows and arrows.

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While snooping about in Google Earth looking for the NC-130A and F-4Ds dumped at Pierce Field on the Eglin reservation, I came across another auxiliary field with some interesting old fighters in the weeds. The one looks to me like an F-101, and there's *maybe* an F-100 nearby. But what really struck me were a couple of others - now, I'm *sure* that these are Phantoms or something else, but at first glance, they kind of looked like F3Hs! I'm certain that's a trick of the light and my aging eyes:

http://www.dataviewbooks.com/wordpressblog...uxiliary-field/

Chris

Take a look here http://members.tripod.com/airfields_freeman/ i spent a few hours checking this site out before my Eglin trip last week

Stuart

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