Final Flight
If you've been to our headquarters here in Chattanooga, Tennessee, then you've probably been to the museum. Inside the museum, we have a vintage airplane--a 1929 Mystic Lake to be exact. We bought it a few years ago, and hung it from the rafters. Originally, the experimental aircraft had a Henderson motorcycle engine, but it was later swapped for a 65hp Lycoming engine. Anyway, while all the guys were away at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, we had a visitor who had intimate knowledge of the old plane. His name is Kiffen Jones and he's from Summer Shade, Kentucky (doesn't that sound like a nice place?). He was on his way to Jacksonville, Florida and decided to drop in and say hi. We then learned that Kiffen was the last man to fly the Mystic Lake bi-plane, and had all sorts of information to share with us about the background of the vintage machine. We grabbed a picture of him while he was here, and figured it would be a great time to refresh your memory with the video of the plane when we first got it.
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