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OT: Hill AFB visit

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I just spent a week at Hill AFB in Utah installing some F22 component test rigs we built. Nice place, nice scenery, nice people. Any of you guys served there?
 
Never served but we built a bridge extension on I-15 in kaysville, Ut I think back in 2008. It was just south of hill afb. We watched all kinds of
crazy things go on over our heads while we drove pile. That's really the only time I was ever around those military jets and planes.
 
I didn't serve there but I had two brothers that were serving there at the time of their retirement. We went to an airshow there. It was awesome. They had mowed acres of weeds and stuff where the people would be standing for the air show. It was about 95 degrees and dusty as all get out when the Thunder birds started their show. My brother worked in a building where they repaired f16 engines. When the show started we were sitting in the shade of the building on the edge of the tarmac in chairs out of the offices and creepers out from under the engines.

Steven
 
I went to Hill AFB on TDY several times as a AF civilian and the scenery in that part of Utah is amazing. Especially for someone from Georgia. If you get to go back, go up the interstate to Perry, Utah, I think, and eat at Maddox's Steak house. Much better than the tourist steak houses in Ogden, in my opinion. Not that the Prairie Schooner is bad but it is mainly for the scenery inside. Also up in the mountains in Huntsville, is the Shooting Star Saloon with amazing hamburgers as well. Can you tell I like to eat???
Sid
 
Went to the museum there when my brother lived in North Ogden in the 1990's. Good displays, naturally not as big as the Wright-Patterson
AF Museum, but still good to see. Air Shows there were terrific. Wonderful area to visit, lots of different things to see in Salt Lake vicinity. See
the Bigham Canyon copper mine for sure.
 

I am not sure the copper mine is open for viewing any more. I spent 2 years off and on doing projects onsite there and the last one was when they had the huge rock slide. It took out the visitors center and the roadway. Haven't heard if they have rebuilt it.

As far as Hill AFB goes, went to visit last winter when we were doing a project west of Layton. That is quite a site to see. Also enjoyed watching the fighter jets take off during their test runs. Nothing like having a fighter jet rattle your hotel when they were practicing night flights!

As for other things to see, you should check out the train station up in Ogden or the old sheep ranch on Antelope Island. They have some really nice train displays and the old ranch is full of old equipment. Quite a step back in time.
 
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I am not sure the copper mine is open for viewing any more. I spent 2 years off and on doing projects onsite there and the last one was when they had the huge rock slide. It took out the visitors center and the roadway. Haven't heard if they have rebuilt it.

As far as Hill AFB goes, went to visit last winter when we were doing a project west of Layton. That is quite a site to see. Also enjoyed watching the fighter jets take off during their test runs. Nothing like having a fighter jet rattle your hotel when they were practicing night flights!

As for other things to see, you should check out the train station up in Ogden or the old sheep ranch on Antelope Island. They have some really nice train displays and the old ranch is full of old equipment. Quite a step back in time.
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We did make it out to Antelope Island. Very stark environment. Campsites were not my idea of camping: no shade to speak of, 95 degrees when we were there at 7:00 in the evening. Watching F15's and F16's take off and peel away into the sky was awesome. They were only in view for a few seconds.
 
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