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Pat Carry
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check this link for an aerial shot of the airpark in the flood waters. www.122nd.com/J.B.%20AIRPARK.htm

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check it now in drier times: www.122nd.com/Airpark/Museum%20and%20Airpark.jpg

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Nice job finding that photo, Pat, thanks. Link is for an aerial taken from a low altitude perspective prior to the storm and subsequent flooding.

http://www.122nd.com/airpark/Museum%20and%20Airpark.jpg

F 100 and F-15 are on concrete plinths. Balance are on their gear.
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Beat me to it , Pat ! :lol:
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Wondered about that..saw a clip on FOX with that big balloon looking structure in it...the planes were in the background...well bits of them were anyway.

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read in the sunday paper a stray dog desperate for water drank the stagnant poison & keeled over dead within 2 hours :(

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