"Swamp Ghost" news (September 2008)

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Russ Matthews
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"Swamp Ghost" news (September 2008)

Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:22 pm

Here's the latest according to today's issue of the PNG "National" newspaper.

http://www.thenational.com.pg/091008/nation8.php
Last edited by Russ Matthews on Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
muddyboots
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:25 pm

awesome! nTHey better christen her Swamp Ghost!
Taylor Stevenson
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:25 pm

Thats great news!
SPANNERmkV
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:28 pm

To the folks who made the decision to let her come home...

And to the folks who busted knuckles to get her out of the swamp onto the dock...

I salute you!!!

Thank you for letting a historically significant artifact have its best shot at being perserved!

Don Price- Wing Leader
CAF-Gulf Coast Wing
Django
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:46 pm

Yay! 8)
gary1954
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:50 pm

Great 8) Now, what will be the intended destination for rebuild here in da US. And, I wonder if the you know who/what in ohio will try an snatch this one.
Matt Gunsch
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:57 pm

it is about time she comes home. Only thing better will be if she is going to be restored to fly.
Planebeach
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:13 pm

Thats great news :D
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:24 pm

Three cheers for the national whatever! Guess they studied all the implications of the bottom line. hmmm. The Council can all get new Caddies or Benzes out of this.
With this precedent, is anything else left in Ooga Booga Land that's salvageable?

Doug
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:34 pm

I know all kinds of shady deals and wranglings have probably went on here, but well done to the team who have rescued this now famous aircraft. I really did fear the worst for a while. I hope that she gets the very best of treatment when she returns home.
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:37 pm

Awesome. Glad to hear that she is coming home.
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:42 pm

OOGA BOOGA land! hahahah how wonderfully politicaly insensitive!! and kinda funny too! great news!! i truly did fear the worst. :lol:
PinecastleAAF

Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:47 pm

What a great piece of news. Fantastic. Even better is the fact that they acknowledge if it had been up to them it would have rotted in the swamp since they didn't have the resources to save/recover/restore it.

Absolute over the top proof that the people who rescued it did the right thing.

:D :D :D
DonL
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:18 pm

Wow that is fantastic news! Is she on the boat, if not lets keep our fingers crossed until she is actually out of PNG. Congrats to all who worked so hard to get her to this point!
Glen
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Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:24 pm

Awsome News ! So do we might know who will be the owners ? Or was I sleeping when that was posted ?
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