MIKE! WOW!!!
Thanks for sharing all these links with their wonderful photos and stories. What amazing gifted folks The Pemberton family must be...thanks to Jim Silhavy for sending me a heads up a few days ago..
Mike...Thanks again for your E mail. U got me diggin through my old mylars...and crawlin up in my Garage attic space.
U my beloved brotha in paint fumes....are one reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaallly busy
hummin'-being!!!
(bye the way...anyone who loves old airplanes should go to
www.boeing.com and check out the archives.
IT SADDENS ME TO THINK OVER THE YEARS...BOEING HAS PAID SO LITTLE ATTENTION TO THEIR ROOTS AND WHERE THE BOEING LEGACY BEGAN..AND HAVE ALWAYS SEEMED TO HIDE THAT FROM THE AVIATION PUBLIC IN GENERAL...that is until Mike Lombardi took the ARCHIVAL CAPTAINS PILOT SEAT.
Plus the fact the THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT has become such a landmark attraction...for not only the Seattle area...but all over the globe. Great to see so many visitors putting that great Aviation Center on their trips to the NW.
AGAIN...MY DEEPEST APPRECIATION AND VOTE OF THANKS... TO ALL THOSE DEDICATED PASSION FILLED SOULS THAT LOVE OLD VINTAGE AIRPLANES....STILL FIND ENOUGH GUTS-TIME AND MONEY TO WORK SO HARD TO BRING SO MANY OF THESE VIRTUALLY GONE N FORGOTTEN OLD FYING MACHINES BACK TO LIFE.