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KenLOctober 6, 2013, 5:15am
This pic I took the other day is of the Kerr-McGee nuclear facility that made news around the world in 1974. It is where Karen Silkwood worked. I had no idea that I live only 5 miles from such a landmark. Heck, I thought it was 1,000 miles away. After a little bit of researching the story, I also discovered that her boyfriend at that time was a customer of mine. Sometimes you just don't know what you don't know!
GarykOctober 6, 2013, 4:58pm
Better not fly too close to those places of the "spooks" will be visiting.
DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLDER, IT'S A PRIVILEGE DENIED TO MANY.
dalek56October 7, 2013, 12:32am
yeah they chased down a glider pilot recently who they claimed "loitered: too long.....
You don't need to know anything about flying inorder to pilot a plane. You do need to know something about flying fly inorder to pilot a plane twice!
PUFFOctober 7, 2013, 11:56am
Where was this located?
GarykOctober 7, 2013, 3:17pm
Hey Puff, If you want to try outrunning an F-16 in your Max fly over the Savannah River Plant in South Carolina. They will oblige. They make the nasty weapons there.
DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLDER, IT'S A PRIVILEGE DENIED TO MANY.
KenLOctober 7, 2013, 4:14pm
Quoted from PUFF
Where was this located?
Puff, if you google map Crescent Oklahoma and look south of town just south of the river on the east side of the highway you'll see it. If you slide the date bar you can see there has been a lot of it removed.
andy_garrettOctober 10, 2013, 12:33pm
Date bar?
What cool feature am I missing?
Andy Garrett
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KenLOctober 10, 2013, 2:20pm
Sorry Andy, I should have said Google Earth. It has an icon you can click on at the top of the screen that opens up a bar you can slide to change the date of the view you're looking at. Go check it out, it's pretty cool.
radfordcOctober 22, 2013, 1:05am
Ken, are you from Crescent? My first wife was from there....that's where we got married.
KenLOctober 22, 2013, 3:28am
No Charlie, I'm south of the river near Cashion. (85OK) Stop in sometime if you're ever flying out this way.
What a small world though. Heck, once when I was flying my Minimax, a guy pulled up my driveway after I landed because he recognized my plane as a Minimax. Turns out it was a fellow Buzzard from out of state visiting his daughter that lives close by. It was Ron Franck (sp?). Real nice guy.
