Thursday, August 11, 2005

Colonel Sanders and Glacier Girl


Yes, we were in Corbin, Kentucky, the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken. No, we did not visit the Colonel Sanders Museum but we did drive about 40 miles down the road to the home hangar of "Glacier Girl", a restored P-38 Lightning, in Middlesboro, Kentucky. This was not just any restoration project. The original plane was in a forced landing on a Greenland glacier. Over the decades since the forced landing the snow and ice built up over the P-38 to over two hundred feet. The recovery effort was innovative and demanding. Read about it here. I'll post some of the photos we took later. We are settled in for the night at a WalMart in Laurens, SC.