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want to try to take off from that short, rocky field and he said the less weight in the plane, the better the chance of getting off the ground.”
On the return drive, Settle said, Alter made careful note of the route followed by the highways.he’d [ticked as landmarks for the hop back across the mountain. “Then he taxied to the very end of the field and he asked me to drive my truck straight to the other end and to swerve if 1 needed to miss large rocks or ground hog holes.”
Then Alter was going to follow the tire tracks. It was a race to beat the sunset. Settle was to flash his lights at the far end of the pasture, if he had encountered any runway blocks. There was no signal so A|ter started rolling. “The plane was bouncing all over the place, going from 'one side to the other. There’s a lot of river rock in that field. It’s bottom land. He was 200 feet from the fence before he pulled his noise up and he only
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