Eglin?
Another confirmed kill:
EXCELLENT! You Sky Pilots got that one in no time flat!
Have a beer on me, guys!
Okay, but its only 0730 here in japan skipper. I’ll just tell the wife i’m following orders!
we lived in a condo right across the bay from eglin.....loved watching the touch-and-go’s! we got to see the space shuttle once when they stopped for fuel too. the only downside was when the big cargo planes (don’t know the designation, being a navy corpsman!) flew over and the whole place would shake. it’s a beautiful place!
Elgin is big, but Edwards wind in the sheer installation size competition.
Edwards has the longest runway but Eglin covers the most area:
Eglin AFB, Florida is the former home of the 39th Bomb Wing and 4135th Strategic Wing. The Eglin range, managed by the 46th Test Wing, is the largest Air Force base in the free world. Located east of Pensacola, its 724 square miles of land range occupies much of the Northwest Florida panhandle. Its 101,000 square miles of air space extends over the eastern third of the Gulf of Mexico, an area extending from the panhandle to the Florida Keys. Seventeen miles of shoreline allow T&E in both a littoral environment and over a land-water interface.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/eglin.htm
DANG! My brother-in-law works here and at Hurlburt! Until he goes to the Sandbox next month that is....
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