Details selected Pioneer Era, Great War and especially Golden
Age Aircraft. Detailed aircraft include the Ryan ST, DGA-6, WACO
ZPF-6, Northrop Alpha, Nieuport 28, Curtiss Jenny, Martin TT, Laird
Solution, Stearman 4D, P-12, DC-3, B-247 and more.
"The brilliant employees used an instrument located
just below the cockpit window that is critical to the operation of
the onboard computers. They decided this instrument, the TAT probe,
would be adequate to use as a ladder."
Source: From a post on an American Eagle
internet forum, in reference to an incident Tuesday at Chicago's
O'Hare International Airport. Citing sources within the aviation
industry, ABC News reports an overzealous TSA employee attempted to
gain access to the parked aircraft by climbing up the fuselage...
reportedly using the Total Air Temperature (TAT) probes mounted to
the planes' noses as handholds.
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