Warbird Information Exchange

I just picked up the supermarket's lastest issue of Air Classics. I began to flip through the pages and started to feel a sense of Deja Vu as I came to page 6.

The article is called "Vacation from Hell" and recounts the events of March 23 1960 where a family traveling in a privately owned PBY were attacked by muslim militia off the coast of Saudi Arabia.

This exact topic was discussed here on WIX a couple of months ago:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11348&highlight=pby+kendall

I didn't see an Author named. I was wondering did someone here on WIX write this article?

Or is it the idea for this article was plucked from WIX?

Just curious. Seemed an awful coincidence that we had just discuss this obscure story and a couple months later it appears in print.

Thanks

Shay
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Semper Fortis

Probably coincidence based on normal publishing times. The AC article would have probably been in the editor's hands for first draft review about the time it was being discussed here. Generally most monthly magazines have the final mark-ups done and are headed for the print shop about 40 days ahead of the cover date. Subscribers will usually get their issues about 10-15 days prior to the cover date.

Since the advent of the "direct to press" digital technology, it doesn't take as long as before to print, but the old schedules are hard to break from.

BTW: Publishing anything that is more than quick and dirty newsletter is a mind numbing, body killing, gut destroying and thankless task. As the former owner of a publishing business, my hat's off to guys like Tim S. that can do it for sustained periods and maintain the quality in the final product that they do.

Well, isn't the WIX a good source for a story? The ideas have to come from somewhere. The author of that post should be flattered!

Sure is. WIX is an excellant place to read up on Warbirds. That is main reason why I visit WIX daily and only buy a mag every once in awhile. plus WIX is free.....that is until Scott realizes the commodity he has and starts to squeeze us Warbird Crack Addicted mongrels for every penny we have. (sidenote: I'd love to see a monthly online WIX magazine, with contributions from all of us on all Warbird related topics)

I was merely curious. If the story was written by one of us, I just wanted to tell them that I enjoy the article. And if it was a 3rd party Lurker who nabbed it, I would still tell them I enjoyed the article but that they should have at the least given WIX a "High Five" in print, for giving the author some inspiration. If indeed that was the case.

If it happens again we might have to initiate our own "Midway'esk" ruse to sniff out the perp by planting some tasty but false information.


Shay
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Semper Fortis

Mr. Kendall's PBY-5A, N5593V, exBuNo 48397,c/n 1759 is still sitting in the Arabian desert.
You can read about it in WIX member David Legg's PBY book "Consolidated PBY Catalina-The Peacetime Record" Naval Inst. Press, 2002, pp. 174-75.
A must-have reference for flying boat nuts.
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