A friend of ours owns Chicago steel (the iron company, not the hockey
team) he told me in the 50's he
flew into Paris and there was a jet sitting at the hanger with a
smashed cockpit roof and a missing engine.
In those days you could wander over and ask folks what happens, so he
did. Apparently it had hit a small aircraft on
approach and sucked it's engine into the port engine which then blew
up, then landed.
The other competing jet aircraft of the era he wouldn't fly because
it would as he said "crash if it sucked in so much as a goose on
takeoff".
Alas I can't recall the two crafts and which where which.
On 26-Nov-05, at 5:11 PM, Chuck Landenberger wrote:
Craig.....
Columbine II and Columbine III were Connies..... Truman had a DC-6
called "Independence" and I think Ike used it, renaming it Columbine
I until the Connie came on line........ See both items below.
Take care,
Chuck
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