Hey Jaffa Gene...
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. | | |On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:58:32 -0400, Gene Kearns wrote: | |On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:16:19 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing penned the |following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: | ||I was just poking around your web site and saw the Kearny and Trecker ||mills. || ||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. | |Yep, I have two of the old guys.... A Model "D" #2 (this one is a bit |rare) and a Model "H" 2 Plain. | |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." | |They looked sorta like this: |http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1085300/ | |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... -- Agent 5.00 Build 1159 Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC. Homepage http://pamandgene.idleplay.net/ Rec.boats at Lee Yeaton's Bayguide http://www.thebayguide.com/rec.boats |
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