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High Desert Hangar Stories with Bob Alvis
Mountaineering in the Antelope Valley
Special to Aerotech News In the process of putting together lark — and would fill the void of not
my book on the field and its history, having any girlfriends with whom to this short story stood out as an inter- pass their spare time!
esting look at how mountaineering Here, in the words of RAF Cadet
A recurring subject in my column
here are my stories of Lancaster’s
War Eagle Field, which was the train- the green rolling hills of England was F.R. Courtney, is the tale he shared ing field for the English and Ameri- no warm-up for two Royal Air Force with the folks back home; who, I’m
can pilots in World War II, located cadets. These chaps decided a hike sure, were worried about the rigors and
at the corner of 60th Street West and to the local hills here in the Antelope Avenue I. Valley before dinner time would be a
dangerous conditions of learning to fly combat! Of course, after reading this they may have had different opinions as to who and what the real danger really was!
To Mum and Pops,
Something which is beautiful can be
very dangerous; an ambiguous adage perhaps, but one which has proven very true one weekend.
Without resorting to the flamboy- ant verbosity of the usual professional mountain climber, I would like to re- count a somewhat hair-raising epi- sode which may serve as a warning to other adventurous airmen who cannot find a girlfriend.
One of my fellow cadets and I started out Sunday for a short before- dinner hike to the local mountains, accompanied by a young college girl with whose parents we were lodging with. Naturally on reaching them and after “shooting a line” about our past
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RAF cadets at Lancasters War Eagle Field with instructor.
Courtesy photographs “A flight” which cadets Blake and Courtney were a part of in 1942.
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