Monday, June 15, 2020

When you gotta land, you gotta land.


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  1. B&W photo. Assumed wartime Europe but that car in the distance says....NO!

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  2. The photo-shop deletion of the towing vehicle (and you can still see the attachment to the tail wheel) is evident. As has been observed, the car in the background suggests 1960's or thereabouts. So it's a relic; and being moved somewhere.

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    1. Yeah the circular edits near the tail and the shadow of the tow rope and vehicle are pretty ham-fistedly obvious.

      But the pilot's grandson went to work for Continental Airlines, and landed a 757 on a taxiway. ;)

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  3. It landed at Portland, Oregon Airport and was being towed to Milwaukie, Oregon to be used at a gas station there what use to be called Bomber Gas. I don't know if it is still there as I left Western Oregon in 2000 and haven't been back to that cesspool. That was over the I5 bridges over the Williamette River.

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    1. The gas station was started in 1947 and is located off of McLaughlin Blvd. It is no longer there, the plane was taken to Salem, Oregon for restoration.

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  4. That was a great picture with it being explained in the comments!

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