Re: "What If Models Was:Martin P5M Marlin

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maiesm72) wrote:

> One of the big British flying boats, Singapore maybe, was converted to a
> houseboat.
> 
> A Walrus was also converted to a house trailer, IIRC.
> 
> Then there all of the airliner restaurants.
> 
> Tom

One of the Dutch East Indies Do 24s that escaped to Australia eventually 
ended up as a houseboat on the Darling River. "The Legacy of the DC-3" 
by Henry Holden (Niceville, FL:Wind Canyon Publishing, 1996) shows 
pictures of a DC-3 motorhome (pp.289-90) in New South Wales, Australia. 
And wasn't one of the Boeing 307s converted into a houseboat somewhere 
in Florida? No doubt that's where those chuckleheads in Washington got 
the idea of trying to land the 307 in Puget Sound ;-}

Mark Schynert