[rescue] Boats?

[Chad Fernandez]

I toured the restoration facility at the Kalamazoo Air Museum... all by
myself :-)  They have a open house type deal every year at the museum,
and I was told to make sure I went over to the Restoration Facilities
before I left.  I looked at everything at the museum and was reading a
magazine that I found in the lobby.  I read an article on some fighter
that was recently pulled up from Lake Michigan.... cool article. 
Deciding that I better leave the museum, I figured I'd drive over to the
Restoration Facility.  Almost no one was there.  I wandered around
completely on my own, and low and behold...... they had the airplane,
that I had just read about, being restored.  The article hadn't said
where the plane ended up.  I had no idea it was right here.  I made sure
I didn't disturb anything.... but I could have touched anything I
wanted..... I did stick my head into a wing to have a look :-)

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA    

Monty Walls wrote:

> If you are going to the Smithsonian, also make sure and hit the aircraft
> restoration facility for the Smithsonian (on the corner of Andrew's?).
> They offer tours, but you have to call in advance.  It's about 7 hangars of
> cool stuff, mechanics, and in progress projects.  The hangars store both the
> restoration work and the things that don't have room (Enola Gay when I was
> went was being restored, with the engines up on motor stands for rebuilding).
> 
> --
> -Monty Walls (mwalls at castor.oktax.state.ok.us)
> -       MIS, Oklahoma Tax Commission