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As if it belonged to a Navy unit, the Skyraiders always had their wing folded as soon as ending taxying when coming back to parking. At the Algerian base BA 142 of Boufarik where I lived beside them during the first half of 1962, it was impressive to see the perfectly aligned A/C of the three squadrons along the very long parking before hangars and near of quantity of stored ammunitions as rockets, classical and phosgel bombs, 2Omm munitions. The Air Base sky was parted in two: one was the domain of Skyraiders including all their in-flight trafic. The other was the realm of elegant black and white storks flying in quantities all the day and sharing the ground with aircraft at a few feet of them when active or even in the comfortable shadow of fuselages and folded wings at rest... |
