Thursday, September 07, 2017

The Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corporation built 220 planes in Brooklyn between 1928 and 1931, and perhaps 60 are still around. But this one was bought by Charles Lindbergh



Full story at https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/08/30/smithsonian-love-get-hands-lindberghs-old-plane-owner-wont-stop-flying/  but basically, the Smithsonian would like someone to "donate" it, and for free, but the guy who bought it for 700 dollars in the 50s, and restored it, but died months later... well, his philosophy was one you recognize. Things with wheels aren't statues, so, he made it airworthy, and it was sold to a guy who will keep flying it, who also doesn't think planes belong in museums. So, now that it's also worth a 1/4 million or so, it's going to stay flying and being sold to anyone who won't give it to the museum

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