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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Years ago when I was flying out of TCA one of our older guys flying with us was an instructor. I had a full military ID at that time so could go anywhere on base with the car. Was heading down to the bowling alley (had a bar and grill there) for lunch and gave him a ride. Along the way we drove by the DC-3 and DC-4 that was on show there.
He asked if I would stop for a sec and we did so. He wrote something down, then we went on to have lunch. His next rotation he asked if we could go back down by the planes. He had copied his logbook page from years before and brought it with him.
Sure enough, he had flown this very DC-3 on display at Tempelhof Air Base in the Berlin Airlift. Tail numbers matched with the notation "coal inbound" on the log-page.
Most of us met Gail Halvorsen as he came by the old base during the Airlift ceremony. Really nice guy.
Joe A
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2021 Subaru Legacy, 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins (the workhorse), 1992 Jaguar XJ S-3 V-12 VDP (one of only 100 examples made), 1969 Jaguar XJ (been in the family since new), 1985 911 Targa backdated to 1973 RS specs with a 3.6 shoehorned in the back, 1959 Austin Healey Sprite (former SCCA H-Prod), 1995 BMW R1100RSL, 1971 & '72 BMW R75/5 "Toaster," Ural Tourist w/sidecar, 1949 Aeronca Sedan / QB
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