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Glacier Girl coming to OSH -- FINALLY!



 
 
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Old May 13th 05, 11:14 PM
Jay Honeck
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Default Glacier Girl coming to OSH -- FINALLY!

Wheee-hoo! This really IS going to be the Airventure of them all!

Here's the latest on Glacier Girl, the P-38 that so many of us donated
money to restore, way back in 1992:


P-38 'Glacier Girl' Makes Return to EAA AirVenture 2005
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A Lockheed P-38 Lightning named "Glacier Girl," the subject
of one of the world's most intriguing aircraft recovery
stories, will return to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh this summer
to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
The 53rd annual EAA AirVenture gathering, the world's
greatest aviation celebration, is July 25-31 at Wittman
Regional Airport in Oshkosh, WI.

The P-38 will fly to EAA AirVenture 13 years after its
first appearance at the EAA event. In 1992, the airplane
was nothing more than a collection of aircraft parts that
had just been rescued from under the Greenland ice cap
after 50 years. The recovery team that extracted the parts
from below more than 250 feet of ice and brought the parts
to display at Oshkosh even before taking them home to begin
the decade-long aircraft restoration.
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I can't believe, after all these years, I'm FINALLY going to get to see
that danged P-38 fly!

:-)
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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Old May 14th 05, 05:58 AM
Jack Allison
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You finally get to see a P-38 fly Jay. Very cool.


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"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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