I was at Kermit Weeks shop a couple years ago. He had bought a P-38 from somewhere-S America I think and the idiot shippers snipped the tail booms in half in order to fit their transport!!!

Guess they are easier to take apart that way![/QUOTE]

You are not far from the truth…….

On a recent(ish) visit to Polk City My father and i spoke to Mr Weeks on this very (sore) subject….. I seem to remember the dock workers were left to load said AC into a container from the low-loader there and then on the dockside!!! How true this is i’m not sure(?) (there was some mention of sub-educational puertoricans with a liberal dose of expleteives mixed in) however in order to get the extra 17feet of lockheeds finest into the container they lopped the tails off with chainsaw and fire axe no less:eek: