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Old 11-18-2006, 07:42 AM
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A tight parking space.

A pilot put a DC-3 airplane with a 95-foot wing span through a 75-foot gate Friday at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum. The plane is at one of 18 stops it will make to celebrate the state centennial, a year-long celebration that started Friday.
The plane's 61-year old pilot, Tom SolinskiIt's a matter of swinging the tail of putting the tail in one place, swinging the tail around, it's a, a walk through it in a narrow hangar, a lot of pilots do it, we're just not used to doing it with a 27,000 pound airplane.


James Bond unavailable for comment, he is busy flying his Beede BD-5J Acrostar.

Note: As a teen on wheat harvest, I used to put a combine harvester with a 21 foot grain header through a 16 foot gate in much the same manner.
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