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...nail down every civilian flight certification he could, a strategy that he hoped would enable him to enter the Air Force a notch above the rest. "He was one of the best I've ever had," says Mark Wellsandt, who helped give O'Grady his primary flight training at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane and eventually became good friends with the young pilot. "You'd demonstrate a maneuver to him one time, and he was able to just pick it up and go from there...
Wellsandt also taught the survival course at Fairchild that O'Grady took and that gave him the training he used with such focus and discipline during his six days in the woods. "I heard he ate bugs to survive, and that's taught in the school," says Wellsandt. "Knowing Scott as long as I have, I'm sure he was thinking, 'Hey, I've got other things I want to do, and if I want to do them, then I've got to get with the program...
Your article on U.S. air force safety and charges of cover-ups in crash probes, "Way,Way Off in the Wild Blue Yonder" [THE MILITARY, May 29], was right on. In 1986, when I was stationed at Washington State's Fairchild Air Force Base, a KC-135A aircraft crashed. As in the case of the June 1994 crash you described, this plane was practicing for an air show. The casualties might have been far greater than the six who were killed: the plane crashed into a field surrounded on three sides by maintenance buildings, near liquid oxygen-service areas...
...about 2 p.m. on June 24, 1994, a B-52 bomber took off from Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington State to practice air-show maneuvers. Barely 15 minutes later, while attempting to circle the runway's control tower in a steep turn, it crashed at 170 m.p.h., narrowly missing nuclear weapons bunkers and a crowded airmen's school. No one had wanted to fly with the pilot-Lieut. Colonel Arthur Holland, a 24-year veteran about to retire. Indeed, two of the three other officers killed with Holland were there because their subordinates feared flying with...
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