Not a Space Shuttle Door Gunner but an actual pilot

Neato

Awesome story.

I used to get to refuel the fleet of a little guy named Frank Borman down at an FBO in Las Cruces. Included a P51, P63, T6 and fully restored Zero. But the princess of his fleet was the F86. Used to always ask him for a flyby with a wave for me and he always provided.

Awesome!

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Originally Posted by DFBrews

Did you get chills when you opened his wiki page and realized who he was? I just did. Awesome experience

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Yes ... and then this wave of regret that I just spent 20 minutes boring this guy about my knowledge of the local cartography when I could have been asking him all sorts of questions about the greatest days of the space program.

Of course I think he's happier to have the information I gave him :p

He did recommend a restaurant (well bar) that I'm going to have to check out; The Bucksnort Saloon (out in the woods near Pine).

Grab a burger at the Bucksnort and let me know how it is. Probably the best burger I've ever had, though it was 10+ years ago.
Oh, and cool story

Very cool. That doesn't happen every day.

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Originally Posted by jslo

Grab a burger at the Bucksnort and let me know how it is. Probably the best burger I've ever had, though it was 10+ years ago.
Oh, and cool story

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+1. Bad ass brush with greatness too.

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Originally Posted by Zundfolge

He did recommend a restaurant (well bar) that I'm going to have to check out; The Bucksnort Saloon (out in the woods near Pine).

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Cool little joint.

Just goes to show you never know who you might be talking to.
Great experience.

Awesome story. Some friends of mine lived down the street from Bruce McCandless (retired Austronaut from the Shuttle era) in Conifer. And I have many friends/family who knew Jeff Ashby (he and I graduated from the same High School- albeit 30-some years apart).