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  • French chateau with a collection of WARPLANES (TR)

    08/28/2019 4:50:09 AM PDT · by DFG · 39 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 08/28/2019 | Ryan Fahey
    The Château de Savigny-lès-Beaune, nestled in the rolling hills of Burgundy's wine country, is the last place you'd expect to find a fighter plane which once had atomic bombs strapped expectantly under its wings. Michel Pont, who is the world's biggest private collector of fighter planes with 110 according to the Guinness Book of World Records, inherited the castle in the 1980s and stuffed every corner of his property with his prized possessions. The former pilot's obsession began during his days in the military and continued as he travelled the world trying to stop vintage planes from being destroyed. His...