The Porter is going out the way it came in-with little notice or fanfare. Just a vague sense of wonder that such an ungainly aardvark of an airplane ever came to be in the first place. Or that, once it became a reality, it actually performed the various Herculean feats that it did-or lasted as long as it has. The Porter's most impressive and enduring mark was landing on a glacier in Nepal at an elevation of 18,865 feet and then taking off again- a fixed-wing altitude record set in 1960 that's still on the books today.
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