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The antenna part of the AWACS, used to go by on a flatbed truck from Bethpage to US Navy Air field at Calverton (I assume it might have gone elsewhere like to then Suffolk County Air Force Military Reservation base at Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY) and appeared laughably like a flying saucer under the tarp. I lived mostly in the vicinity of MacArthur Airport nearby in Centereach on Route 25 (also named the Middle Country Road, [not the south or north both of which came first], also Jericho Turnpike). I once saw one of Gyrodyne's single pilot coaxial helicopters outside the compound flying over the potato fields that became suburban tract development nearby Stony Brook. The "Cradle of Aviation" its called, and a museum. I was sitting with the Grumman F-14 "Tomcat" test pilot when we announced we'd blow up all 80 of them in Iran, bought by the Shah, if the USSR invaded it. I still wonder if that F-102 Mass. Air Guard flying too low one 4th of July was President Bush...he did get out early to get a Harvard U. MBA.

I read or saw they're at the top of any operation, the radar and communications apex the "AWACS". And I don't know nothing about air crashes on Long Island, though my grandfather was a "tow" (and crash) boat operator at the Flushing Airport I think for Pan-Am "clippers" and once fished some B-24 crew out of it. He actually towed surplus PBY's the first commercial flights to Brazil, via Miami. Have you seen it on the FAA map? There's a crane in the runway and water everywhere, some think West Nile came from its abandonment.