Recovery of a B-17E in New Guinea (1 Viewer)

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MIflyer

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May 30, 2011
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Yes, I think it is Swamp Yankee. A local said that the airplane should be left there to serve as a tourist attraction, "The village nearest the airplane does not even have a name. If they had left the airplane there it would have a name by now." Just why a village in NG needs a Boeing product built in Seattle in order for the locals to name the village, I do not know. I heard that the NG government had intervened after the airplane was packed up and ready to go, withdrew their permission, and stopped it from being transported out of the country. I have not heard of a new status.
 
Yes, I think it is Swamp Yankee. A local said that the airplane should be left there to serve as a tourist attraction, "The village nearest the airplane does not even have a name. If they had left the airplane there it would have a name by now." Just why a village in NG needs a Boeing product built in Seattle in order for the locals to name the village, I do not know. I heard that the NG government had intervened after the airplane was packed up and ready to go, withdrew their permission, and stopped it from being transported out of the country. I have not heard of a new status.
Bribe not big enough?
 

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