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 Posted: Thu May 17, 2012 6:53 pm Post subject: Interesting little story . . . . |
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I took this picture of it last October. According to the sign they are slowly dismantling it to restore.
From: Roland Gilliam <amg3636(at)hotmail.com>
To: commander list <commander-list(at)matronics.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:54 PM
Subject: RE: FW: Interesting little story . . . .
Anyone know if it is still there??
Roland Gilliam AC 500 6291B
From: john(at)vormbaum.com
To: commander-list(at)matronics.com
Subject: RE: FW: Interesting little story . . . .
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:43:51 -0700
If that thing is still up there, I bet it’s still dripping oil on customers.
From: owner-commander-list-server(at)matronics.com [mailto:owner-commander-list-server(at)matronics.com] On Behalf Of Roland Gilliam
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 10:20 AM
Subject: FW: Interesting little story . . . .
I don't know how true this is, but it's a good story.
Roland
From: perkyone(at)earthlink.net (perkyone(at)earthlink.net)
To: pilotkroll(at)charter.net (pilotkroll(at)charter.net); amg3636(at)hotmail.com (amg3636(at)hotmail.com)
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Interesting little story . . . .
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 08:44:13 -0400
| Quote: | War Surplus . . B-17 Bomber Story
ART LACEY WAS SERIOUS. Cheers!!
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Shortly after WWII a guy named Art Lacey went to Kansas to buy a surplus B-17. His idea was to fly it back to Oregon, jack it up in the air and make a gas station out of it. He paid $15,000 for it. He asked which one was his and they said take whichever bomber yo want because there were miles of them. He didn't know how to fly a 4-engine airplane so he read the flight manual while he taxied around by himself.
They said he couldn't take off alone so he put a mannequin in the co-pilot's seat and off he went.
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He flew around the area to get the feel of it and when he went to land he realized he needed a co-pilot to lower the landing gear. He crashed and totaled his plane and another on the ground. The bone yard wrote off both B-17's as "wind damaged" and told him to pick out another.
He talked a friend into being his co-pilot and off they went.
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They flew to Palm Springs where Lacey wrote a hot check for gas. Then they headed for Oregon. They hit a snow storm and couldn't find their way, so they went down below 1,000 feet and followed the railroad tracks.
His partner sat in the nose section and would yell, "TUNNEL" when he saw one and Lacey would climb over the mountain.
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They landed safely, he made good the hot check he'd kited, and they started getting permits to move a B-17 on the state highway. The highway department repeatedly denied his permit and fought him tooth and nail for a long time.
So, late one Saturday night, he just moved it himself. He got a $10 ticket from the police for having too wide a load.
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Story and photo credit to : Thomas W. Childers
tchilders32(at)gmail.com (tchilders32(at)gmail.com)
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