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Sounds very J.R. Ewing to me n/t
Posted by Paul on Mon Feb 25, 2002 05:53:19 AM
In reply top A Corsair Legend- anybody ever hear this one before? posted by Dan Jones on Mon Feb 25, 2002 01:06:30 AM
: I forget where and when I heard this story and I have no i
: dea whether it's fact or fiction, but I was wondering if a
: nyone here had ever heard it. It goes like this:
:
: Some years ago, like late sixties/early seventies, a wealt
: hy Texas oilman had a wife that he wanted to get rid of.
: She fancied herself something of a pilot so for her birthd
: ay one year he bought her a surplus F4U Corsair and had it
: completely overhauled - engine, prop, new radios, painted
: an overall fire truck red, etc, etc, and on his wife's bi
: rthday presented her with it, big bow tied around the cowl
: ing and all. No expenses spared.
:
: She of course probably jumped him on the spot (wouldn't yo
: u?) and was just thrilled with her new toy, but then he pu
: t on THE ACT. "Well Sweetheart, this is alot of airplane,
: and if you want to fly it we'll need to have some kind of
: protection, just in case...(etc, etc)". Long story short
: - the airplane was HEAVILY insured, and she was HEAVILY i
: nsured, and after signing all the forms that he had conven
: iently had drawn up already, she jumped in the Hog, lit 'e
: r up, and never got a hundred feet in the air before the m
: onster rolled over on her back, dove into the ground and b
: lew up.
:
: The now even wealthier oilman walked away clean.
:
: Anybody ever heard that one before?