Read this interesting article recently, ‘Whale at least it
was recent when I first began poondin’ this out, ironically the very same day
I’d ordered the new Confuzer, as it would take me another 8-weeks to finally successfully
find I-T! As the Newspapers have a sneaky habit of posting stories under
different titles and thus I couldn’t find the link when searching to what I
thought was the stories title via my Newsline for the Blind telephone service.
Nevertheless, without further adu, freshly unwrapped
Fishwrap,” NO! Sorry folks, NO Copper River Salmon here, move along lassie;
Hya! As we’re talkin’ severe Freezer burns here over this slightly neglected
story via the local, prominent, remaining Newspaper, The Seattle Times. As I
found this story very interesting - detailing an intrepid Northwest couple’s
desires to not only build a very unique period correct, scratch built Biplane,
but hopefully retrace the original Aeroplane’s route upon its 90th
Anniversary in 2014; Aye Karumba!
As four converted World War I Torpedo Bombers called Douglas
World Cruisers took off from Sand Point, then Seattle’s municipal airport,
(which I’m ARSE-sumin’ later became the Sand Point Naval base - which used to
house the Goodyear blimp during Seafair) forerunner of today’s Boeing Field to
circumnavigate the globe as the first Aeroplanes to do so. And although the Boston and the Seattle both
failed to complete the arduous flight, the remaining Chicago
and New Orleans
successfully returned to Sand Point some six months and seventy stops later,
making aviation history.
As now this
adventurous couple seeks to mark the event by retracing history by departing on
the 90th Anniversary of said
historic flight on April 6, 2014 aboard their one of a kind aeroplane dubbed
the Seattle II...
Good Luck Demsters!
