Holloman AFB

We are on the road again but this will be the shortest leg of the trip. When we going from Alamogordo to Holloman AFB. It will become our "home" for the next month. The best part of our new home is we will be one block from Jenny and Nate's house.
Yesterday, Tim and I drove around Holloman AFB to check it out. Holloman AFB is 59,639 acres and it'a population is 21,000. It opened in 1942 but was called the Alamogordo Army Air Field and was suppose to be the training center for the British Air Force but after the U.S. got involved in WWII it became the primary training center for the B-17, B-28 and B-29 pilots. After the war it became the training center for testing and development of pilot-less aircraft, guided missiles and other research programs. In 1948 it's name was changed to Holloman AFB. Over the decades several aircraft were flown at Holloman: B-17,B-24, B-29, B-57, P-47,AT-38,F-40,F-15, F-84, F-100, HH 60G, QF-106,F-4F,F-117. It also became a base known as "firsts" as home of the worlds largest and fastest test track. It is almost 10 miles long and approaching 10,000 ft per second or MACH 9. It boast the world's fastest man alive, highest open gondola manned balloon, highest balloon flight, highest bail out & longest freefall. ENOS, the chimpanzee was trained at Holloman's HAM facility and became the first speciman to be launched into orbit and returned safely. In 1992 Holloman started serving Germany as the training center for the German Air Force. Presently, Holloman is the training center for pilots of the following aircraft: F-22A Raptor, T-38 Talon, MQ-1 Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, QF-4 Drone, F-4 Phantom II and the German Tornado.