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[Ryan]

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I would gladly participate in a flyout with some group members from Alliance around the flyin. Barber is about a 15-20 min flight for me. I'll probably be hanging around out there all week anyway.

Ryan

[mulwyk]

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Great historic photos from the AllianceMemory website!

Highlights for me were: #327 photo of Evelyn Burleson who set the T-Craft distance record of 1700 miles. She musta started with at least 75 or 80 gallons of fuel onboard! How'd she do it?

And photo #495 of the Palestine "air force". They don't look like warplanes, but...Is one of those T-craft the legendary Taylorcraft Bomber?

And, really, photos #343 and #345 of the Moody Brothers setting the endurance record! I guess I had assumed they pumped the fuel up from the car to the airplane for their in-flight refueling. But no. They pulled 5 gallon cans of gas up to the plane with a rope!

(I had to test this. I got a 5 gallon can of gas, a length of nylon rope and, standing on my workbench, I tried to pull the can up a few feet with the rope. Holy crap! I could barely do it once and I wasn't leaning out an open airplane door pulling the can up against a 60mph wind.)

[taylorcraftbc65]

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OK Bob, HOW do I call up the photo of the possable Taylorcraft bomber? Brie

[Howard Wilson]

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Brie, Go back one page on this thread and click on the link Forrest put up in #13. It'll take you to the first page of photos, then just look for pic# 495. I think there might have been 2 or 3 of those photos.

[Forrest Barber]

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More soon too! We have a lot of better equipment coming, the lady & gentleman who labled them did a good job, I ahve to go abck in and change things a wee bit and then put them abck into chronological order. It is GOOD we will attempt to make it better. Check out the "oral" interviews too.