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Penguins Can Fly
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| Written by admin1 |
| This Thanksgiving marks the 21st anniversary of what was either the largest verified flying penguin, or for some people what was the most traumatic airship mishap since the Hindenburg. I'll quote the AP wire service report from November 26th, 1986.
"Things didn't go so smoothly at Detroit's Thanksgiving Day parade early yesterday, when a 30 foot long, $15,000 helium balloon of Chilly Willy the Penguin broke away and floated off. At parade time a pilot spotted the "flightless bird" at an altitude of about 5000 feet over Detroit, said Bill Robertson, control tower manager at Windsor Airport in Ontario. After a brief stay in Canadian air space, Chilly Willy veered northwest back into Michigan. The Coast Guard later recovered Chilly in Lake St. Clair, 45 miles north."
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. |
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