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Reminds me of the ending of "Planet of the Apes": " You dammed, rotten, dirty Mexican Airforce Airmen!"
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Reminds me of the ending of "Planet of the Apes": " You dammed, rotten, dirty Mexican Airforce Airmen!"


Why? For doing their duty?

IMHO, cuss the person or persons who were using the airplane to smuggle drugs.


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Tulio wrote:
PbyCat-Guy wrote:
Reminds me of the ending of "Planet of the Apes": " You dammed, rotten, dirty Mexican Airforce Airmen!"


Why? For doing their duty?

IMHO, cuss the person or persons who were using the airplane to smuggle drugs.


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I think that is just a Charleton Heston/Planet of the Apes joke, not a jab at the Mexican airforce. :wink:

I agree the Mexican Airforce was doing there job.

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What are the detaills of the shoot down??

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Hi Jack,

I did a search but wasn't able to find the news article. Granted it was from 2004 so chances are it was taken down. According to the article, the airplane was intercepted by the Air Force whilst drug running and the crew wouldn't cooperate. The Air Force then fired on it disabling it and forcing the crew to land it on the beach. Apparently two of the crew escaped, but a third who was injured was arrested when authorities reached the crash site.

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Tulio wrote:
PbyCat-Guy wrote:
Reminds me of the ending of "Planet of the Apes": " You dammed, rotten, dirty Mexican Airforce Airmen!"


Why? For doing their duty?

IMHO, cuss the person or persons who were using the airplane to smuggle drugs.


Saludos,


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It was a play on the ending of the "Planet Of The Apes"....I aggree they were doing their job, but it was a joke, sorry to anyone offended.
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Back in the good old days of the annual convergence of the Cascade Warbirds at Concrete. For the life of me I still can't figure out how Jerry ever got the Albatross in there (2600' with severe vertical cliffs at either end-- but then if it were easy then everyone would do it).

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left to right: Mike from Arkansas in the Bonanza, Bud in the Yak 55, Jerry and family in the Albatross, Ken Morley in the Harvard, Ross Granley in the Yak 52, and Tom Cathcart in the 0-2.





Disclaimer, this pic was shamelessly lifted from the Cascade Warbirds site many moons ago and credit must be given to the anonymous picture taker.

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TAdan wrote:

I think that is just a Charleton Heston/Planet of the Apes joke, not a jab at the Mexican airforce. :wink:

I agree the Mexican Airforce was doing there job.


I know it is a play on the Planet of the Apes bit.

Point is, the gratuituos slight at the Mexican pilots, for doing their part on the fight against drugs.

IMHO, as stated above, the real culprits are those who used the airplane for illegal activities.


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warbirdcrew wrote:
Back in the good old days of the annual convergence of the Cascade Warbirds at Concrete. For the life of me I still can't figure out how Jerry ever got the Albatross in there (2600' with severe vertical cliffs at either end-- but then if it were easy then everyone would do it).


I was there @ Concrete that weekend, and overheard someone
daring someone else to go touch the main gear brakes/wheels
on the Albatross right after it landed.... :lol:

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No joke, by the time he got it stopped and was slow enough to turn around for the backtrack, you could not see the end of the runway over the nose. :shock:

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PbyCat-Guy wrote:


It was a play on the ending of the "Planet Of The Apes"....I aggree they were doing their job, but it was a joke, sorry to anyone offended.


Please check your PMs.

No offense taken, that is for sure.


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Another Albatross succumb to the drug running tade.

Proctor's HU-16

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After: In custody at Cancun.
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Tulio wrote:
PbyCat-Guy wrote:
Reminds me of the ending of "Planet of the Apes": " You dammed, rotten, dirty Mexican Airforce Airmen!"


Why? For doing their duty?

IMHO, cuss the person or persons who were using the airplane to smuggle drugs.


Saludos,


Tulio


that the mistake was not paying off the correct corrupt officials. If you don't pay them they call in their air force to make a "point" with the privateer drug runners, namely "pay your dues and don't go up against the corrupt government drug cartel inc."
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That's pretty neat. Where in Mexico? That must have been a pretty nasty storm to break off the tail and move it like that.

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Another Albatross succumb to the drug running tade.

Proctor's HU-16

After: In custody at Cancun.
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Hope someone gets that one out. Do the government sell impounded aircraft?

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