Short Final: The Big One
AVweb This happened a few years ago, in the pre‑pandemic world. I was chugging along in my Piper Dakota from North Central Arkansas heading toward the busy Dallas‑Fort Worth airspace on a Friday afternoon. Fort Worth Center was talking fast, directing the arriving airline traffic, dealing with a few military training flights and a couple of us little guys on flight following. Center: “Cherokee 28U, military traffic, 1 o’clock, 10 miles, 10,000, eastbound.” I looked and didn’t spot anything, so I asked center to say traffic again—just as a B52 emerged from behind ...