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Official - WRG- News...you WILL hear it here first :0) N/T
Posted by Tony on Mon Feb 11, 2002 06:14:36 PM
In reply top Hmmmm... Methinks they probably heard it here first!!! (ntx) posted by bdk on Mon Feb 11, 2002 05:06:52 PM
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: : CHINO YEILDS FOSSILIZED WARBIRDS: A taxiway construction
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: : roject at Chino Airport has turned up a warbird graveyar
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: : -- it seems that Chino was one of the nation's main faci
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: : ties used for the disassembly of aircraft following Worl
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: : War II, and now pieces of WWII aircraft are being found
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: : earth excavated for the taxiway project. Keenly aware
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: : at there may be gold in them thar piles of dirt, San Ber
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: : rdino County has sealed off the piles until an assessmen
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: : of their contents reveals their value. Nearly 1,400 warb
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: : ds were dismantled on the field and volunteers with the
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: : r Museum Planes of Fame have so far collected about a do
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: : n parts ranging from gear doors to bolts.