On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:20:52 -0400, RMR penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|Hey Gene, do you also block email coming to you from google?

No, but if you sent it since Sunday PM, I haven't checked mail.

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|On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:58:32 -0400, Gene Kearns
wrote:
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|On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:16:19 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the
|following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
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||I was just poking around your web site and saw the Kearny and Trecker
||mills.
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||I didn't know any of those critters still lived. :)
||
||My Uncle Dan was Chief Engineer for K&T during the 50/60's and was
||involved in the development of their push prop float plane - can't
||remember the model of it.
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|Yep, I have two of the old guys.... A Model "D" #2 (this one is a bit
|rare) and a Model "H" 2 Plain.
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|I don't think K&T ever had their "own" aircraft. In the early to mid
|60's they assembled Piaggio's P.136L-1 s and L-2s under the corporate
|names "Trecker Gull" and "Super Gull."
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|They looked sorta like this:
|http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1085300/
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|I suspect that most of those aircraft are either retired or had a
|field approved engine change. The original Franklin and Lycoming
|engines were orphaned by their respective companies...

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