more old hornet

[doninnh]

My intro to the hornet round was not good , I was station at a radar scoring site in La Junta Colorado in the early 60s. We were tracking a B47 when it blew up. The first we knew what happened was when the next AC commander calmly said "Bomb plot you had a large flash south of you. Do you   have one that went in?" The next call was from a Santa Fay train crew about the sky raining fire as they came into La Junta. I had an been a crewchief for about ten years before retraining into electronics so I 've picked up a few.  We went to the crash site and one of the things we found was a survival pack with the hornet and 50 rounds. The box undamaged  with about 20 rounds on the ground. When I shoot my hornets I can remember that long 8 mile fall those guys made, two under chutes and two not DON K

[bigbrowndog]

I’m thinking 8 miles up they were dead due to lack of O2 and temps, but maybe not? Either way, that’s quite a memory for the Hornet.

Trapr

[doninnh]

Radar/nav made it out and landed close to two parkers in the middle of nowhere so he had a ride into town talk about luck, copilot got out, crewchief hit a/c on the way out. pilot rode it to impact probably had no o2. one of the engines threw a turbine. DON K