Another childhood memory. My grampa bought the unfinished mosquito bomber wings from deHavilland at the end of WW2. They filled a 30 acre field in various states of completion and he turned them into roof trusses, sheds and chicken coups. The landing gear were used as hydraulics for anything and everything.
The price was under a dollar a wing just to make the purchase legal.
My brother and I used them as teeter totters and as a playground.
Instruments of war became toys and buildings, a much better use.
Dick Rampen's art has appeared in the past four volumes of Emanations.
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