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Re: San Diego Fire- a few memories
Posted by bdk on Mon Nov 17, 2003 06:42:12 PM
In reply top Re: San Diego Fire posted by Steve T on Mon Nov 17, 2003 06:22:18 PM
There was an underwater recovered Zero (Tallichet recovery?) that was on its gear and a Sopwith Triplane replica that I remember offhand. I recall that the Zero seat supposedly had flak damage where the pilot was shot in the posterior prior to ditching the aircraft...
: : Reading that post on the Fireballs... The fire was caus
: ed
: : by arson? And does anyone have a list of the aircraft
: lo
: : st? The fire occurred before I was even born, and as it
: w
: : as it seemed sad enough, but now I'm actually angry.
:
: Chris--
:
: I was furious too when I heard about this. Anyone with a
: n old copy of Leslie Hunt's Veteran and Vintage Aircraft b
: ooks would be able to run down a list of what was lost to
: the mental-midget firebug. Off the top of my head, besides
: the FR-1 Fireball, the one other particular type I rememb
: er being lost was a Ryan M-1 mailplane that had been a one
: of a kind survivor. (The rebuilt San Diego Aerospace Muse
: um has a replica M-1 on show).
:
: As there was a focus on Ryan Aeronautical there, the tot
: al loss of the original San Diego collection probably took
: out about a third of the then-remaining original Ryan air
: craft (exclusive of the slightly-less-rare PT-22s)...A ter
: rible shame.
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: S.