<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="arial" size="2" class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""><div id="ecxAOLMsgPart_2_8ca13e3e-e08b-4758-8359-9960e217fa30" class=""><div class="ecxaolReplacedBody" lang="EN-US"><div class="ecxWordSection1"><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class="">This is quite an undertaking to save an old DC 3 workhorse, but it had been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">previously converted with 2 Pratt & Whitney Turbo prop engines at a cost of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">somewhere in the range of $1,000,000.</span><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class="">This is long, but guarantee you’ll watch it all.</span><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class="">Great Story!!</span><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""></span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class="">A 1943 DC3, being used as a tour plane, ran into a hole while skiing atop snow<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">on takeoff. The engines were damaged as was the cockpit and gear.</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class="">The worst part was that this occurred in Dec, 2012 near a glacier in Antarctica .<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">It sat for a year before a rescue and repair team showed up to fix and fly her out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">It took them two months working in unbelievable conditions. They succeeded and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">now the old plane is back to work!</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class="">The video shows how things went! What a fantastic accomplishment! They don’t<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">teach this stuff in school!!</span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""> </span></div><div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Helsinki, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;" class=""><a title="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9ruArctYYbM?feature=player_detailpage" id="LPlnk428533" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9ruArctYYbM?feature=player_detailpage" target="_blank" class="">www.youtube.com/embed/9ruArctYYbM?feature=player_detailpage</a><div id="LPBorder_GT_14555565970290.9231825415045023" style="width: 1682px; text-indent: 0px; overflow: auto; margin-bottom: 20px;" class=""><table id="LPContainer_14555565970110.20965217729099095" cellspacing="0" style="width: 1513px; overflow: auto; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><td id="TextCell_14555565970110.4143325565382838" colspan="2" style="padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; display: table-cell; position: relative;" class=""><div id="LPRemovePreviewContainer_14555565970110.16908297408372164" style="float: right;" class=""></div><div id="LPTitle_14555565970110.8208486470393836" style="top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 120, 215); line-height: 21px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, 'Segoe UI Light', 'Segoe WP Light', 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><a id="LPUrlAnchor_14555565970120.5349513238761574" href="http://www.youtube.com/embed/9ruArctYYbM?feature=player_detailpage" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;" class="">Lidia - YouTube</a></div><div id="LPMetadata_14555565970270.17261324357241392" style="margin: 10px 0px 16px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 14px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;" class=""><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" class="">www.youtube.com</a></div><div id="LPDescription_14555565970280.47459992743097246" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 20px; overflow: hidden; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; display: block; max-height: 100px;" class="">Try watching this video on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/" class="">www.youtube.com</a>, or enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>