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Finally got a new monitor...can read what's on the screen.
Brought the plane home to the lake today. Came off floats about 2 months ago...Christmas, New Years, lots of family time. Lots of snow. Two Taylorcrafts (mine and Chris's [95179 on the forum]) on skiis in front of the house...let the fun begin.
Had an interesting thing happen during Christmas holidays...My eldest son was showing his 86 year old granddad some internet information on Shemya Island, out on the far end of the Aleutian Islands, near Attu, one of the places attacked by Japan during WW II. Nate, my son, had hauled some Air Force personnel out there recently in a turboprop Cessna twin. Nate knew that his granddad's brother was shot down and killed over Yap Island, in the Pacific, while flying a F6F-5 Hellcat off the USS Enterprise, in Sept. 1944. Nate asked if his granddad would be interested in seeing some information that he had located on the Internet...to make a long story short...within just a few seconds, they were looking at pictures of the wreckage of my father- in- law's, brother's Hellcat, taken in 2005 and 2006 by a man who has been actively searching for his own uncle's wreckage in the Yap Island area. Nate helped his granddad respond to the contact email on the site. The very next morning, he received an email with more pictures, ship's documents which were declassified in 2005 and the name, with pictures, of the still-living individual who saw his brother shot down and then helped bury him at the crash site. It was good to see a grandson use the power of modern technology to bring some closure and fill in some long-missing details for his granddad. Dick
Finally got a new monitor...can read what's on the screen.
Brought the plane home to the lake today. Came off floats about 2 months ago...Christmas, New Years, lots of family time. Lots of snow. Two Taylorcrafts (mine and Chris's [95179 on the forum]) on skiis in front of the house...let the fun begin.
Had an interesting thing happen during Christmas holidays...My eldest son was showing his 86 year old granddad some internet information on Shemya Island, out on the far end of the Aleutian Islands, near Attu, one of the places attacked by Japan during WW II. Nate, my son, had hauled some Air Force personnel out there recently in a turboprop Cessna twin. Nate knew that his granddad's brother was shot down and killed over Yap Island, in the Pacific, while flying a F6F-5 Hellcat off the USS Enterprise, in Sept. 1944. Nate asked if his granddad would be interested in seeing some information that he had located on the Internet...to make a long story short...within just a few seconds, they were looking at pictures of the wreckage of my father- in- law's, brother's Hellcat, taken in 2005 and 2006 by a man who has been actively searching for his own uncle's wreckage in the Yap Island area. Nate helped his granddad respond to the contact email on the site. The very next morning, he received an email with more pictures, ship's documents which were declassified in 2005 and the name, with pictures, of the still-living individual who saw his brother shot down and then helped bury him at the crash site. It was good to see a grandson use the power of modern technology to bring some closure and fill in some long-missing details for his granddad. Dick
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