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From: dst@dst.boltz.cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: Re: Toibo-Arrows (Was: The "Trouble Arrow")
Keywords: a long boring Piper Turbo Arrow story
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 90 20:12:06 PDT
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>>Dave sez:
>> But it was owned by a dentist who had made the #1 classic mistake
>> of aircraft purchasing:  he bought the best used airplane he could afford to
>> buy, not the best one he could afford to *maintain*.  

> glenn sez:
>	Ow, that's really sad... Y'know, whenever I cruise around an
>	airport (taxing or riding in the fuel truck), I'm amazed to see
>	that there are hords of <what used to be and could still be>
>	airplanes tied down and pining away...  You'd wonder how many
>	of these are from owners who have fallen into that same pitfall.

Oh, Hangar Queen,
What golden days you must have seen!
My heart cries out for thee,
Neglected, cast-off property,
That once ran proud wings through the air.
We never dreamed such disrepair
Would be the fate of one so young and fine.

Yet youth deserts us all.
So say the lines encroaching on my face,
As damp and cold invade your resting place.
With luck you'll fly again someday,
Restored by love to long-lost prime,
Set back among the clouds for a short time
To live again, and carry pilots to their dreams.
Alas, there's no such hope for me.
Oh, Hangar Queen,
What better days we both have seen!

-- Dave Touretzky    Seneca N8147E (and she ain't no hangar queen!)