Speaking of diving on plane wrecks, last night I set up my folk's DVD player
(up until now just used for music CDs) to play DVDs on the TV.  They got a
DVD from Sam Johnson (of the wax firm--his family used to live in my folks'
house and he knows them from Cornell alumni stuff) that has to do with Sam
recreating a plane his dad used to fly down to Brazil to find carnuba wax
(from which Johnson's "Car Nu" was made).  Anyway in it is a scene where his
boy(s) and others dive in Papua New Guinea to try to find the wreck of his
dad's plane (sold to another company and wrecked there).  The plane was
powered by twin rotary engines, high wing, a short center fuselage/hull for
landing on water, small pontoons out near the wing tips, twin booms back to
the rear control surfaces, etc.  I saw a display at Oshkosh when I was there
several years ago that featured a small movie theater inside a replica
fuselage of the plane.  I think the film was on Discovery or TLC some time
ago but this may have added information (I only watched short parts near the
front last night)?

Last night I also heard a tidbit that you'll get a kick out of:  My mom
mentioned that they are excavating out in back of the Woolworth's store (now
the Cornell Public Library), in the parking lot, to investgate old privies
that were in back of small houses along that block of South Cayuga Street.
They're getting ready to build a parking garage there (evidently the library
or the hotel across the street needs more parking space--it's not a great
location for the downtown business district) and someone decided they needed
to learn something of that era by digging up ancient the privies that were
out back of the houses.  I tried to search the past IJs but to no avail
(they don't seem to allow that access--they want to sell that service, I
think)--I understand an article appeared in the paper about two weeks ago.
Apparently digging up old privies is a valid/worthwhile archeological
practice...

Submit to BP if appropriate...

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Ken Follett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]  wrote:


Obviously odd -- divers wanting to visit a faux plane wreck.

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