Originally Posted by
jrl767
SPS is one of a few of airports/bases that I've transited both the military and commercial sides
Oct 1977 I was on a Space-Available hop on a North American Aviation T-39 Sabreliner that was headed to Kirtland AFB (ABQ) ... the crew got re-routed in flight to take a general and a few members of his staff from SPS to Offutt AFB near Omaha ... I spent the night in the VOQ, and flew SPS-DFW-LAX the next morning on a Rio Airways Beech 99 and a Delta L-1011
Last spring while driving on the U.S. 287 freeway west of Wichita Falls near the town of Electra, TX on my way to Telluride, CO, I witnessed a USAF T-38 "Talon" jet trainer pass quite low right over me. I figured the T-38 was from Sheppard AFB. Perhaps the pilot wanted to take a look at my BMW M4.......
And that brings up the Myasishchev M-4 "Molot" (which NATO called the "Bison") four engine jet bomber operated by the Soviet Union.....