9/11 Fighter Pilot to Visit Sonoma County Sat., 6/25

June 25, 2011

more details here: http://www.pacificcoastairmuseum.org/events/FirstResponder/

source: Press Democrat      6/25/11

Almost a decade after the nightmare of 9/11, former fighter pilot Tim Duffy still fields the questions:

What took you so long?

Why didn’t you get to lower Manhattan from your base on Cape Cod in time to at least protect the gashed and ablaze World Trade Center from being struck by a second airliner?

“I get that all the time,” Duffy said Friday during a visit to the Sonoma County aircraft museum that’s become guardian to the retired supersonic F-15 he flew that September morning in 2001.

Trim and prematurely gray at 49, the combat veteran said he’s concluded after 10 years of review and what-ifs that nothing could have been done to substantially change the timeline of one of the nation’s most ghastly and heartbreaking days.

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Sonoma County Landing for 9/11 Jet

December 19, 2010

source: Press Democrat   Dec 19, 2010

Wingless and its bubble cockpit covered with white cloth, the first jet fighter that was scrambled during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks arrived Tuesday at the Sonoma County airport, where it will become the centerpiece of a 9/11 memorial.

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http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20101214/articles/101219769&tc=yahoo?p=1&tc=pg


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