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To: Smokin' Joe

Now if they can just find a B-29 and not catch it on fire...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird

A lesson in how NOT to recover an old warbird...


25 posted on 04/15/2012 8:08:03 AM PDT by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: GreenLanternCorps

Yeah...and the flight of dual engine Mustang (P60?) variants that landed in the arctic and were recovered from under 60 feet of ice.


26 posted on 04/15/2012 8:21:39 AM PDT by spokeshave
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To: GreenLanternCorps
Now if they can just find a B-29 and not catch it on fire...

I saw a documentary on that. I seldom cry, but that was really, really close.

34 posted on 04/15/2012 11:59:51 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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