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To: Mark17
From the article.....

Halvorsen will complete the drop in a World War II-era plane, the Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon bomber. The plane has its home at the Heber City Municipal Airport, though because of air shows it is seldom parked there. It is privately owned by Dave Hansen, who will fly the plane during the July 3 drop.

42 posted on 12/10/2017 9:25:25 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska ((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
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To: Kathy in Alaska
After I looked at it for a bit, I knew the gooney bird (we called it the gooney womper) was a tail dragger. That aircraft looks like it has a nose wheel.
We had two gooney wompers at Mountain Home. We hated it, because they did not have modern day IFF/SIF equipment, and were extremely hard to identify on radar. Then they were so slow, we could almost launch and recover F-4s before that aircraft made it back to base. It wasn’t the slowest aircraft I ever worked. That was the C-7 in Vietnam.
48 posted on 12/10/2017 10:14:27 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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