Museum of Mountain Flying

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Pat Carry
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Museum of Mountain Flying

Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:07 pm

This museum located in Missoula, Montana just changed their website a bit to http://www.museummountainflying.org/index.php?id=2 Kind of a neat collection of aircraft. Anyone been there to check it out?
Barrie MacLeod
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Re: Museum of Mountain Flying

Sun Jan 24, 2010 5:00 pm

There is an excellant 1953 book about Johnson Flying Service from 1924 until the very early 1950s.
"Tall Timber Pilots" by Dale White and Johnson pilot Larry Florek.
I guess the company qualifies under the warbird umbrella as later on they sent TBMs up to Canada to spray on the Budworm operation in New Brunswick. The "Mann Gulch" C-47/DC-3 is ex-USAF.
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Re: Museum of Mountain Flying

Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:43 am

GOOGLE 'Mann Gulch tragedy' and read what those 15 guys went through back in 1949-if you don't come away with a greater respect and admiration for what smoke jumpers do then you have a hole in your soul. My late Mother had a shoestring relation who was involved in the aftermath.
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