Warbird Information Exchange

Gang, This year the Reading WW2 Weekend will be reenacting "Operation Candy Drop" from the Berlin Airlift.
Retired USAF Col Gail Halvorsen (the guy who created it) will be flying in the Museum's C-54 & throwing candy parachutes out of the plane. Sounds interesting. Here's more info:

http://www.maam.org/wwii/ww2_berlin.htm

http://www.talkingproud.us/HistoryBerli ... omber.html

http://www.konnections.com/airlift/candy.htm

http://www.hill.af.mil/library/factshee ... sp?id=5979

Also, I'll be buzzing the crowd in one of the B-17's & droping a few of My fully loaded Footlockers & Frozen Turkeys out of the bomb bay:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v674/ ... OCKER5.jpg

Should be a hit, much like the infamous WKRP in Cincinnati "Operation Turkey Drop" incident:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZByndN_ffyw

... Digger

As god is my witness I thought turkeys could fly....


Note to self: Go by Fry's and get a new keyboard....I'll never get all coffee out of this one.

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One day I looked up and he's pushing 80...
He's got brown tobacco stains all down his chin.
To me he's one of the hero's of this country, so why is he all dressed up like them ole men....

This should be a neat addition. On a personal note, Col Halvorsen is one of the nicest people on the face of the planet.

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Regards,

Jase
www.b26marauder.com
"I'm having a BLAST!!" 2007 CAF Wing Staff Conference

RIP Gary Austin..always in our hearts

And, just to clarify....

The C-54, called "Spirit of Freedom", is not owned by "the museum". It is owned by the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation of NJ.

Please do come out and visit us, if not only to meet Gail, but to visit our aircraft as well.

See you all at RDG.

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Kevin Kearney
Vice President
Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation


C-54D "Spirit of Freedom" 43-17228
C-97 "Angel of Deliverance" 52-2718 (painted as YC-97A 45-59595)
C-54E/R5D-4 "Spirit of Freedom" 44-9144 BuNo 90414 (wfu April/2020)
http://www.spiritoffreedom.org

what a refreshingly cool & fun re-enactment!!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

I have a shirt that says that on it.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager