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Title: Airplane Wrecks in S. B, County
Post by: Wrightwood on Mar 31, 14, 07:30:22 AM

Airplane Wrecks in S. B, County
    AT WW Historical Society

Pat Macha will be guest speaker at the next meeting of the Wrightwood Historical Society on Friday April 4 at 1 pm in the Museum meeting room (Old Firehouse), 6000 Cedar St., in Wrightwood. His topic will be Airplane Wrecks in San Bernardino County.

Everyone is welcome and light refreshments will be served.

Title: Re: Airplane Wrecks in S. B, County
Post by: Wrightwood on Apr 01, 14, 08:40:25 AM

The correct date should be Friday April 4, 2014

Title: Re: Airplane Wrecks in S. B, County
Post by: RobertW on Apr 01, 14, 12:33:59 PM

No doubt Pat will mention the Legendary Aviatrix that crashed near Grassy Hollow in 1965.  The September 2011 Big Pines Volunteer Newsletter had a nice little article on her career:

http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/bigpines/History/LegendDown.pdf (http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/bigpines/History/LegendDown.pdf)

Title: Re: Airplane Wrecks in S. B, County
Post by: SkierBob on Apr 02, 14, 11:57:52 AM

The owner of Carrier Communications has made hiking to airplanes crashes a hobby for years. 

http://www.av.qnet.com/~carcomm/wrecks.htm (http://www.av.qnet.com/~carcomm/wrecks.htm)

Title: Re: Airplane Wrecks in S. B, County
Post by: SkierBob on Apr 04, 14, 01:17:03 PM

Published on Mar 16, 2014
Recovery of a DC3T crashed in Antarctica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruArctYYbM&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ruArctYYbM&feature=youtu.be)