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Old 05-28-2019 | 06:08 AM
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pooch817
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Glad it wasn't Saddleback that damned mountain has killed too many. Tallman and Mantz had a flight museum at Orange County Airport. It wasn't much of a museum but they had some really wonderful airplanes from the early days of the jet age. In the 60s while there were still orange groves and an occasional fog off the ocean, Orange County Airport reeked with nostalgia. My father who visited me from Oklahoma said this must be what heaven is like. Needless to say, though I never met them, Tallman and Mantz were like gods to me. I took the first American MD 80 in and out of Orange County. It was my first leg as Captain on the MD80, I had picked up the plane at Longbeach, it was the airplanes first flight. I had a part in turning this lovely private airfield into another commercial airport. However I don't feel too badly about it as my flight that day was an exercise in aviation incompetence.
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