#234 Air Awareness

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"I remember one such time when a friend and I were offered a chance to ride in the Catalina that was part of the Erickson Aircraft collection.  We sat in the voluminous back of the plane as Brent Conner rumbled the old ship down to the approach end of the runway.  He did the runup and one mag on one engine dropped a lot.  Brent decided that some work needed to be done and it wasn’t worth departing with that bad mag.  So we never flew, but it was Air Awareness time.  And it was worth something to us all."

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