Monday, November 27, 2006

Black Helicopters

Der Google Snooper

Milwaukie, Oregon - only in America can you beat a B-17 into a gas station.

Shortly after WWII a guy named Art Lacey (he had a British wife) went to Kansas to buy a surplus B-17. His idea was to fly it back to Oregon, jack it up in the air and make a gas station out of it. He paid $15,000 for it. He asked which one was his and they said take whichever you want because there were miles of them. He didn't know how to fly a 4 engine airplane so he read the manual while he taxied around by himself. They said he couldn't take off alone so he put a mannequin in the co-pilot's seat and off he went.

He flew around a bit to get the feel of it and when he went to land he realized he needed a co-pilot to lower the landing gear. He crashed and totaled his plane and another on the ground. They wrote them both off as "wind damaged" and told him to pick out another. He talked a friend into being his co-pilot and off they went.

They flew to Palm Springs where Lacey wrote a hot check for gas then they headed for Oregon. They hit a snow storm and couldn't find their way so they went down below 1,000 feet and followed the railroad tracks. His partner sat in the nose section and would yell, "TUNNEL" when he saw one and Lacey would climb over the mountain.

They landed safely, he made good the hot check he wrote, and they started getting permits to move a B-17 on the state highway. The highway department repeatedly denied his permit and fought him tooth and nail for a long time so late one Saturday night he just moved it himself. He got a $10 ticket from the police for having too wide a load.


But wait, al-Jazeera breath.  There are more interesting things you can find  - "Google Earth: the black helicopters have landed"

PS- Does anyone know the address of Hillary's Georgetown townhouse, or Slick's Chappaqua home?  I want to put them under 24/7 surveillance.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You just can't say this enough, is this a great country or what?

Reminds me of the guy who attached all the weather balloons to his chaise lounge which was tethered to his roof. Thinking he might slowly ascend when he untied the chair, he shot off into the sky, eventually reaching the height the nearby airport's flight patterns(I think NJ)

Anyway, good story Rog, they should make a movie
MM

Rodger the Real King of France said...

Now, go back and click on the ''black helicopters'' have landed. Some amazing stuff there (although written by some sissy).

Bob Hawkins said...

Sgt. Ed York was the guy who photographed the first A-bomb test. I heard a talk he gave about his career (he also photographed many later tests). When he went to retire, he was held up because he owed the Air Force a B-29.

It seemed that one of the thousands of forms he had signed for supplies and equipment had included a B-29. The Air Force had no record of him returning the B-29.

Make a long story short, eventually they found the B-29 in the boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB, and Sgt. York got to retire.

What do we learn from this?

o Read before you sign.

o If you see anything you don't understand, like "Bomber, Strategic, mod 29, 1 each," ask.

o Relying on the government's reason or common sense is not adequate preparation for retirement.

o They can talk about "spare parts" all they want, the boneyard is really a filing system for tail numbers.

Anonymous said...

Your story of Art Lacey was a grinner.
But. The Google connect was less so. In fact, it could also be known as, Google Earth: Making life easier for terrorist, one giant step at a time. WTF? It's getting so there's one can't even hide under the blankets. Juice

Anonymous said...

Check this out fans, this guy documented "damn near every single F-14 visible on Google Earth." bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/213827

Rodger the Real King of France said...

It's settled then. We kill Google.

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