The Nam Sang's Final Resting Place

[The Spanker]

Just an interesting video clip of the I Street Bridge in action. Though I knew it was identified as a swingbridge I kept envisioning a drawbridge until I saw this clip.

Note the tall power lines that were the Nam Sang's downfall.

http://s215.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid215.photobucket. com/albums/cc192/TheBeanTeam/IStreetBridge_0001.flv&fs=1&os=1&ap=1

Admin: You may with to consider inserting this clip into the locked Nam Sang thread.

[Unbelievable]

Great video Spanker! Here is what he was trying to bring through. It was 72 ft. long. This is a picture of the Nam Sang at Diamond head. Just to be clear Richard Johnson was not involved in the race. Bob Robbs won the 1961 Transpac as the owner-skipper of Nam Sang.

[Gerard]

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG10707 18/index.htm

Click on "View this issue" icon.

Go to p48 for an article on her.

[fishtail-99]

That video clip just goes to show you how dramatic RJ's failure was. That power line is waaaaaay up in the air. His mast was even more waaaaaay up in the air. To be sailing a ship with a mast that tall and not to be simply paranoid about approaching any overhead lines is the height of irresponsibility. Oh, wait! We're talking about RJ....

[bdonson]

Makes you wonder if the people whe actually owned the Nam Sang know of it's fate and where they can find the thief Richard. All that work and effort into a boat only to be ruined by a dufus trying to sneak it up a river

[Gerard]

[gladididnt]

After reading the Nam Sang article I scrolled thru the rest of the SI pages and on pages 68-72 are a story about a flyer named Max Conrad and his Atlantic crossings in various planes, one of them a single engine Piper Commanche # 110LF which is pictured on pg 68.
The man that taught me to fly, Amos Babb, was a friend of Max's and after Max died Amos owned 110LF. (he didn't steel it though like someone else mentioned in the forum) I flew this plane many times and have over 100 hours in it.
When Max was flying it (for Piper) 110LF held about 17 worlds records for duration of flight which I think still stand.
Amos had the plane for quite a while, than made a deal with some Piper factory people and they were gonna give Amos a new Piper Dakota model and they got 110LF.
Brfore he turned the plane over Amos used the plane to set another record which I think was to land in all 48 contigugious states in 48 hours, or something like that.
When Amos delivered the plane to the new owners in central Illinois he came in gear up and pretty much destroyed it.
He crashed in another plane soon after and was killed. I think he was starting to suffer from alzheimers, he did some "really wierd" things when I was flying with him for the last couple of years.
I tried to print the SI article without any luck, can anyone advise how I can print this.
Also, if your interested in flying at all the story of Max Conrad is very interesting, for starters he was struck in the head by a propeller while saving a young lady, he suffered brain damage to the degree that he had the knowledge of a 5 year old and had to re-learn everything.

[CrookedRichard]

[gladididnt]

Crooked Richard----- Thank you for your help.
Reading this article makes my fingers tingle, same as I remember whenever I flew Max's 110LF.