Yeah, the runway was about a mile long. There's still a PB4Y sitting mostly intact in 140ft of water just off the shore that failed to get airborne and went into the lake in '56 (all crew survived). Landing gear is still down and everything. Here is a 3D photo of it that divers captured a while ago.
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1966 Pontiac GTO (
restoration thread)
1998 BMW 328is (
track rat)
2023 Subaru Crosstrek Limited (
daily)
View my photos: Caught in the Wild