Aerowerx
Well-Known Member
I don't know why I suddenly remembered this today, but thought it would be a bit of entertainment to everyone.
It happened several decades ago, sometime after 1966, or maybe as late as 1987, but I remember the article in the paper.
At that time Columbus Technical Institute, as it was then known, was located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Including their aviation maintenance program. The USAF donated an old F-86 to the program. It was flown into Port Columbus and towed down the street in the middle of the night. They left it parked in the parking lot.
This was not the best of neighborhoods to leave anything parked over night. At some time before the school could do anything with it, some neighborhood kids got into it and were playing around.
It was good that they never managed to get the systems powered up. It was later found that there were still rounds in the cannons! Fortunately, it was parked facing the building so the worse that could have happened is that it would have taken out the first floor of the school.:shock:
It happened several decades ago, sometime after 1966, or maybe as late as 1987, but I remember the article in the paper.
At that time Columbus Technical Institute, as it was then known, was located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Including their aviation maintenance program. The USAF donated an old F-86 to the program. It was flown into Port Columbus and towed down the street in the middle of the night. They left it parked in the parking lot.
This was not the best of neighborhoods to leave anything parked over night. At some time before the school could do anything with it, some neighborhood kids got into it and were playing around.
It was good that they never managed to get the systems powered up. It was later found that there were still rounds in the cannons! Fortunately, it was parked facing the building so the worse that could have happened is that it would have taken out the first floor of the school.:shock:
