Forwarded message - From: Steve Link steven[Vintage_and_Warbirds_Pictures]
Date: 20 December 2015 at 13:15
Subject: [Vintage_and_Warbirds_Pictures] Kermit's Ducks
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Posted by: Steve Link
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Subject: [Vintage_and_Warbirds_Pictures] Kermit's Ducks
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From Kermit Week's Facebook page….I think the TallMantz one was used in "Murphy's War", some excellent footage.
It's a little known fact that I have been the second largest Grumman Duck owner since the US Navy in WWII, having owned FOUR! My Tallmantz Collection Duck was traded as part of a deal to the USAF Museum (when I got the Seversky P-35a) and another one I purchased from the San Diego Air and Space Museum was traded to Dan Friedkin for one of his Grumman F3F's.
Sadly now, I'm down to only two!
This Duck was owned by Sam Poole from Lake Wales, FL and, as you can see, had seen better days!
I remember hearing about it while driving up to Central Florida working on my Fantasy of Flight project and purchased it from Sam in the late 1980's. It needed a LOT of work but the price was right!
Sam used the plane to deliver supplies to settlements along the Amazon but at some point got sidetracked with other business interests and the parked plane became un-airworthy. Leticia is located at the headwaters of the river, right next to Peru and Brazil at the southernmost point of Colombia. He eventually disassembled the plane (the float was drilled into two pieces) and brought it back to Miami in a DC-6.
Here, I interview Sam in front of the project. The hull and fuselage have since been rebuilt and I have an overhauled engine for it.
One great story of Sam's with the airplane was when he accidentally hit a log on take off with an outboard wing float and damaged one of the lower wings. He then taxied 400 miles down the Amazon, picking up a few nuns along the way that needed a lift!
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