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Well, once I picked myself back up off the floor...
Posted by Lynn with a fiendish plan on Thu Aug 08, 2002 10:01:04 AM
In reply top What would you do, if ......... posted by Cees on Thu Aug 08, 2002 08:34:14 AM
1. I'd work on making some highly public donations to worthy charitable causes in Algeria and other countries along the N. African coast to smooth the diplomatic path for my arrival with a metal detector and a map to Ain El Gazala and Mersa Martruh... then I'd go dig me up a few I./JG27 Bf 109Fs and have them restored... then I'd sell all but one to recoup my investment and keep one for myself!
2. Repeat for Russia
3. Repeat for Norway
4. Hire a barge with a lifting device and a large internal tank that can be made to look like a large pleasure boat, and anchor over a particular spot off the coast of Miami where a certain very historic US Navy torpedo bomber lies rotting on the seafloor due to bureaucratic idiocy... well, SOMEONE has to do something!
5. Do a little expedition off the coast of California to see if the dumping ground of all the ex-VF-5B Curtiss BF2C-1s can be found and recover what I can... you guys DID know about that, right? They yanked the entire fleet of BF2C-1s out of service due to incurable wing flutter from harmonic vibrations, and dumped them wholesale off the coast of California according to the accounts I've read.
Man, there's just SO much... :)