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In 1987, Ron Eminger and the
late Jim Butler took me to Walters home in Newberry, Ohio. Walter lived
on a farm, out in the country. No one was home the day we visited!
AND NO, we didn't steal anything!
Like an American
child's song about "Old McDonald." Not the hamburger people!
Old McDonald had a
farm, ei-ei-oooo. And on his farm he had a duck, ei-ei-oooo; With a
quack, quack here and a quack quack there, here quack, there quack, and
everywhere, quack, quack, quack; Old McDonald had a fram,ei-ei-oooooo."
He had chickens, pigs, horses, cows, and dogs! You can sing the rest with some
children.
Like McDonald,
Walter had a airplane here, and an airplane there: EI-EI-OOO---------------OH
MY GOODNESS DID HE HAVE THE AIRPLANES.
Rodney,
ei-ei-ei-ei--oooooooooooooooooooooo!! WHAT A WONDERFUL DAY AT WALTER'S FARM!
IT'S STILL THERE AS OF SEPTEMBER, 2000.
That place of
his is really something to see. He had 3-planes hanging inside the
"B-36;" and he had the P-47N still in a shipping crate. How
he got all of them to his place is something. He lives off the main
road, using an old one lane dirt road, with many curves it it....up and
down too boot. Many of the large planes were just cut-up with a big axe
or chain-saw, then loaded on a truck and hauled to his place.
| I have a
book by "BRUCE Wm. OMISS" titled: "MUSEUM and DISPLAY
AIRCRAFT of the UNITED STATES; © 1976. In it they list all
the aircraft Walter has, including a listing of all museums and
private collections "STATE BY STATE". |
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