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Dreams take off with restored biplane (restored Boeing 40C)
www.spokesmanreview.com ^ | 3-16-08 | Jim Camden

Posted on 03/17/2008 4:20:35 PM PDT by dynachrome

When the big Boeing biplane lifts off from Felts Field Saturday afternoon, its open cockpit and wood-paneled passenger cabin will carry the history of American aviation back into the skies.

It will fly again after nearly 70 years on a mountainside, a few years in a horse trailer, and nine years in a hangar at Felts, where some 61 volunteers spent about 18,000 hours meticulously restoring it to life.

“It’s damn near a miracle,” said Mike Lavelle, an employee of the Boeing Museum of Flight, who has researched this type of plane, the 40-C, and its key importance to American aviation and the Northwest company.

(Excerpt) Read more at spokesmanreview.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: aerospace; aviation; biplane; boeing; washingtonstate
This is cool. (ignore Borat Hussein ad at site. sheesh)
1 posted on 03/17/2008 4:20:36 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I felt that this deserved it’s own post.


2 posted on 03/17/2008 4:21:17 PM PDT by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: dynachrome

TTIUWP


3 posted on 03/17/2008 5:39:11 PM PDT by martin_fierro (I'M NOT DEAD YET!)
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To: dynachrome

4 posted on 03/17/2008 6:14:43 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: dynachrome

More to this story and more photos—http://www.vintageaircraft.org/news/2008%20-%2002_21%20-%20Boeing%2040C%20Flies%20For%20the%20First%20Time%20in%2080%20Years.html


5 posted on 03/17/2008 6:16:14 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Thanks.


6 posted on 03/17/2008 6:36:09 PM PDT by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

see #5


7 posted on 03/17/2008 6:37:04 PM PDT by dynachrome (Immigration without assimilation means the death of this nation~Captainpaintball)
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To: rawhide

What a beautiful aircraft!


8 posted on 03/18/2008 10:25:31 AM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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