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We arrived at Edwards AFB on 2 March.  Could not find a house to rent and finally bought and moved in to a new home on 1 June in the small community of Quartz Hill. Nice place on the edge of the first foothill of the San Gabrial Mountains off of the High Desert.  Only drawbacks are: we are 4 1/2 miles from the San Andrea fault and the down draft from the mountains make for many windy, but warm days.  We are only 44 miles inland from the ocean at Santa Monica Bay.  Our address is: 41363 Myrtle Street, Palmdale, CA 93551, (805) 943-6844, ClaSummers@aol.com.

I am doing my normal Black Magic work at Edwards.  Am working for the Electronic Warfare Directorate in the 412 Test Wing.  My main project is to put together and then validate an integrated test facility to fly various aircraft and air-to-surface missile models through various surface-to-air missile model threats.  I am to set it up using Missile and Space Intelligence Center [MSIC] threat models.  Then I will validate the new system against the models we are currently using.  Then the Navy at Point Mugu will put an ECM pod on our two seat F-16 and we will fly it against the SAM fly- out models on the range.  Depending upon their availability we could use any of the ranges at China Lake, Edwards and Nellis.  The Air Force still takes a dim view of firing real SAMs at their F-16s. Several countries have openly advertised that they would like to sell us some of their systems. They are happy to lease us missile crews for however long we would want them.  Things have changed mightily in the last ten years.

I am also doing some work in supporting simulations used in testing the Miniature Air Launched Decoy [MALD], Joint Strike Fighter [JSF] and B- 1.  Today was spent in writing a proposal to be given to Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center (AFOTEC) to build and validate an Integrated Simulation for the Joint Air-to-Surface Stand Off Missile [JASSM]. My work information is: 412 TW/EWWS [Symvionics, Inc.], 20 Hoglan Avenue [Bldg 10-20], Edwards AFB, CA 93524-8170, (805) 277- 1785, DSN 277-1785, clarence.summers@edwards.af.mil.

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Conceptual planning for the 45th Reunion: The dates of our 45th Reunion have changed.  It will now take place on October 26-29, 2000, an "off-Homecoming" weekend.  However, nothing else has changed.  We still have booked the waterfront Marriott Hotel in Annapolis as well as the Days Inn on Route 50.  And Washington area Classmates are still planning a great program.  More details will be provided later in Shipmate, via letter, and on the '55 Net. We still have a long way to go - if you have any ideas, put them on our Listserv or call Tom Kiefaber at (703) 759-7743 or another Washington area Classmate.
 
 
 

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