"On a windy, rain-lashed night in early December 1986," John T. "Jack" Race recalled, "I received a panicky phone call. 'Oh, Jack!' a woman's voice wailed, 'I have awful news. The airport hangar just collapsed.' My heart flipped over. In that hangar at tiny Clifford Airport west of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, were my Cessna 172 and my pride and joy, the Waco UPF-71 had owned and flown for the past 20 years. The loss of the Waco would be an even worse blow because I was planning to fly it on a re-creation of the Goodwill Tour that Charles Lindbergh had flown in 1927 right after his historic solo Atlantic crossing."
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