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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:02 pm 
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This video appears to be the delivery flight of The Swoose to the Boneyard. (Kingman maybe?) If it is not The Swoose, it is a shark fin B-17
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqbUG0dmxfk&NR=1


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Yes, thats Kingman, I recognize the Hualaipai mtns. to the south and the rail line that parallels Andy Devine Blvd. (which is where the B-17 rows were placed in some of that footage). I flew out of that airport. Still do for recurrent CL-215 training.

I dont know if that's the famous Swoose - I think it is - depicted in that one shot, but wartime Swoose pilot John Kurtz (actress Swoosie Kurtz's dad) did come up with the funds to purchase the airplane for a city and subsequently flew the famous D model Swoose out of Kingman. Which is why it survived the smelter.
I think that song lyric "Alexander is a Swoose" found its way onto several airplanes.
There is a hardcover Smithsonian book entitled "The Swoose" that explains the story. I have it, but dont have time to do research at the moment.


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well it might be as simple, looking at :34 seconds :)

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Geez, how sad. :cry:

We get so soon old and so late smart. :(

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By coincidence, I was listening to XM-radio's "40's on 4" channel on the way in to work this morning and heard the Alexander song for the first time.

It seems that a lot of the Kay Kyser songs were joking and kind of silly like that.

"Half swan, half goose..."


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