Airplane Gnomes
Rather than the usual fare of flowerbeds, ponds or garden
gnomes, Lloyd “Tud” Krohn decorates his garden with
handmade aircraft.
src='http://googlesightseeing.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/planes.jpg'
width='160' height='120' >
The 1/16 scale models include a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-22_Osprey V-22 Osprey, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_Flying_Fortress B-17
Flying Fortress, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_Lightning P-38
Lightning, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C130_Hercules C-130
Hercules and an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-64_Apache Apache
helicopter.
Mr Krohn (I’m afraid I can’t bring myself to call him “Tud”)
started building these odd garden ornaments over 17 years ago but,
so far, nobody has figured out exactly why…
More info from http://www.fox41.com/article/view/8681/?tf=wdrbarticleview.tpl
Fox41 and ground level pictures on http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?s=728f0ae7c0984cee301a8f74a571ca92&t=709188
RC Groups. Thanks to http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/985533/an//page//vc/1
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