I just found the book "Spyplane" by
David Donald and to what do my wondering eyes behold? A lot of pictures of the
one plane I was forbidden to take pictures of at RAF Mildenhall, the RC-135s of
55th SRW...I was a flightline cop of the 513th SPS stationed there from
85-88...I remember many of A/C #844, aka "Problem Child"s in-flight/ground
emergencies...Man, that was one cursed bird! I remember after one landing, that
the A/C got off, walked over to me standing in front of the ECP (entry control
point) waited till his crew got on the green bus, and said "Here! Take the
motherf**ker!", turned and spit in the general direction of the nose
radome...Another A/C shocked one of the other guys on post by wearing a pair of
non-regulation COWBOY boots prior to a flight! When he told me about, I could
only think that maybe ITN/Channel 4 was re-running "Dr Strangelove"
again...
I was also wondering if anyone had info
on an in-flight-emergency that got towed to the south side of the base on or
around "Operation El Dorado Canyon" (4-86) Apparently someone tangled with a
fighter that put holes in the tail/ fuselage...We were forbidden to talk about
it in the general public and when asked for an official explanation, our SP
officers told us we were "cops, not intel weenies" and ordered to shut up about
it...Now that maybe the heats of after almost 20 years, could someone tell me
the story? Thanks, Tom Dyer (aka "T")
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