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I’ll bet your dad knew my uncle, who flew for Western for a long time, got to be chief pilot & VP of Operations, then went back to the cockpit when they joined Delta, retired in the early/mid 90s, I believe.
He flew F-86s for the Utah Air Guard, way back, they did some crazy stuff, like buzzing down Little Cottonwood.
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What was your Uncles name ? I knew a lot of the Western guys.
Seth Oberg.
I also knew Gene Oliver - he taught me some of the finer points of flying with PAX when I was a teenager. Also Mel Rozema, who was one funny SOB. I don’t think he was a college guy, but he had a ton of funny stories about flying pipelines, etc.
Remember hearing the name Seth Oberg but dont recall ever meeting him. Pretty sure I met Mel way back in the 80’s. What a great airline Western was !!
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I had a friend who was a Phantom pilot in Nam. He said back before Tailgait the pilots were esssentially encouraged to fly under bridges etc.
I still remember those crazy commercials… “The ONLY way to fly!” Arguably a much better airline than its counterpart, Eastern.
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Some pictures taken at Antelope Island the other day. The bison were particularly interesting to me.
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Heading to SLC for my nephew’s graduation next week and my sister suggested we go out to Antelope Island. Never actually been, but looks beautiful right now.
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Antelope Island is great. In late May/early June there are a lot of wildflowers, which surprised me considering that the grass is dried and brown 10 months of the year.
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Dead Horse point a few weeks ago. Gorgeous area.
Creepy related story - I user to worked with a former police officer from Moab who told me he investigated a fall off of Dead Horse point. He was convinced a husband pushed his wife off one of the many cliffs here, but he couldnt find enough evidence to charge him.
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Article link here, but pictures involved. Well, 3d scans are involved. I think this is pretty cool. Just the tech involved is absolutely amazing. Yes we’ve had scans of the Titanic before, but this are so much more crisp. What other things on the bottom of the ocean can we start to look at now?
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(it pains me to say this, but…)
Meep, Meep!
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Need to borrow a scythe?
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A tractor with a cutter should do the trick. 