Re: Re[2]: [MV] A DUCK'S SAD TAIL

Joe Foley (redmenaced@yahoo.com)
Tue, 4 May 1999 14:39:49 -0700 (PDT)

Don't forget that the time between first idea and final product for the
DUKW was 18 months, and that was about 1942. May need some re-thinking
on some systems.

Joe F.

--- "SCHERRER, TIM" wrote:
> From what I heard last night on the news, the Coast
> Guard (I guess they
> are Feds) were considering "grounding" all DUKW's
> until they pinned down
> a cause for the sinking. The report I saw said it
> had been in two days
> earlier for a leaking drive train joint. The report
> said that the safet
> y record for the DUKW fleet, which numbers about 60
> in commercial servic
> e, has been exemplary this far. I don't see this as
> a threat to the MV
> hobby--just the Coast Guard are trying to prevent
> further accidents of t
> his type. The DUKW in question should be surfaced
> today and the cause
> discovered within a day or two. TAS
>
> > I talked to a good friend who is working in
> Arkansas right now. The local
> >news down there said that the Feds are thinking of
> making it illegal to put a
> >DUKW in the water! Doesn't that just about figure?
> > Protect everyone from themselves till there's
> nothing to do!!
> > Darryl
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