The 8 February 1964, a/c 56-1344 also belonged to the .  We also had lost a F-102 the summer of 1963 with that was never found.

 

 I was flying as target on the mission with Fred Boutz, along with Howie Bronson, a classmate of Fred’s from the academy. Fred Reimers in another F-102 and had made a wing takeoff with Boutz and then split up for the intercepts.  Since we were using datalink communications there were never any radio calls to indicate a problem.  We found Fred the next afternoon across the ridge from where the a/c had hit.  I was flying in an C-119 as an observer when we found the crash site and I just happened to glimpse his body by accident as we flew low across the ridgeline.  It took a team of mountain climbers to get him out.

 

The comment by Rick Taylor about the F-102 dead stick at Goose Bay is funny. We had two while I was there, so it could have been either Col. “Buddy” Hayden or Maj. Rod Davis. Sounds like Col. Hayden.

 

Richard “Poss” Horton
in email 25th March 2010
also for amendments on 21-04-1962 entry