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Tim Richmond. I need a drink.

Booty call then.

Makes me wonder now about Tim Richerson and his trips to Ashe county for a little ****.

Squiggler, that plane more than paid for it's self. Ashe was not the only airport it had been in. It was caught twice more before a judge ordered it destroyed. Pretty sure it had been in and out of Wilkes at least once or twice.

We should be careful about delivering supplies via aircraft,

First of all, they do not have as much carrying capacity as you might would think. Meaning you would not be able to justify all the money spent to do this.

Second of all, aircraft produce streams of noxious chemicals in the ozone as they fly. These chemicals drift down to the ground where they could harm the population, so it would be best if we avoid using aircraft all together.

Residue Fins

I remember going to watch the plane take off. I'm my memory, it seemed like they had trouble getting one engine to fire up. But if there was no pot, how did they confiscate the plane?

If Boys had been there with the fuel truck when he was supposed to be there the plane would have been gone begotten the law got there. The pot was on the road going out as the law pulled in

They put just enough fuel to get it to Smith Reynolds in z Winston z Salem. Backed the plane as far back as they could, engines Sry full power before they released the brakes

I realize after Fins post your reference.

I just remembered the pilots name, Derek Mettrick

Dog, check past news of Ashe. Sometime around 1980 it landed at the airport with a load of pot. The law missed the pot but seized the plane. I know/ knew most of the participants. My friendship with several of them plus the amount of cash that my legit business was generating at the time got me a trip to appear on front of a grand jury in Asheville. I was clear as I had records verifying the sources of cash. I never heard anything else from the law, but many ultimately were charged and got a vacation in the Iron bar motel at my and your expense

Billy, Flash was making an inside reference to something for those that are natives and at least 40 years or older.

Imagine being so sheltered that you think of a DC-6 as a "big plane." Yikes.

A DC 6 is a passenger plane that needs 4500 feet to take off.

I distinctly remember a DC 6 Cargo plane lament there. :)

This is a hot take. I also doubt if there is some emergency "Berlin Airlift" operation, Ashe will not be in the drop/delivery zone. But you gotta love that airport fluffers are clinging to the hope of mass death to justify all that financial waste.

Last I checked a cargo plane would be too heavy to land at the landing strip.

And since most mountain counties don't have an airport, if supplies had to be flown in, they would take them to wilkes or Hickory airports and setup a hub and truck them on up the mountain. This is not the blizzard of the 60's when roads were impassable and supplies had to be airdropped.

You must own one of the planes over at the landing strip we paid for just for you and a few rich friends.