Posted 9 years ago
fortapache
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Featuring the DC-4 or C-54 for the military transport version. Also there are free bonus photos.
Photo #3 is Douglas VC-118A. This was an Air Force 1 for President Kennedy, for short trips only. He had larger jet Air Force ones available. From the Pima Air Museum in Tucson.
Photo #4 is a Convair 240 at the Planes of Fame museum at Valle, AZ.
We have one of these that flys in & out of St. Maarten every now & then. No registration or any markings. Nobody seems to know anything about it.
Thank you very much blunderbuss. Does it carry white powder in small plastic packages.
I hear it is fun to watch planes take off and land there as they fly 50 feet above the beach.
Thank you
Caperkid
mikelv85
NevadaBlades
GeodeJem
vetraio50
blunderbuss2
I've worked at Princess Juliana Airport & nobody ever would tell me about the mystery plane. By the way, the fence at beach level has been taken out a number of times in the past by the landing gear of (usually) 747's. I don't care what Myth Busters says, I was there when a car was brown over a 30+ cm. curb & 30-40 metres into the ocean (only about 10 cm of the top showing). Not the 1st time either. We aren't called the "Wayward Islands" for nothing !
If I ever go there I would be hanging out at that beach. But I will duck for the 747s.
I can't understand why people want to go on vacation & get sand blasted while being deafened ! Of course working at airports for years may explain my lack of enthusiasm for doing that.
It is like a monster truck rally or drug race but free.
"Drug race" Fort ! Those are held on another part of the island . I went out yesterday & took a pic. of the sign at the end of the runway for you. I don't poste on weekends, but will in a few days.
Oops drag race but then I could have been right. I don't post on weekends either.
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Caperkid
mikelv85
NevadaBlades
GeodeJem
vetraio50
blunderbuss2
racer4four
PhilDMorris
Trey
SEAN68
SpiritBear
Manikan
Thank you gargoylecollector.
Fort, posting that sign for you now.