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Show Flying Service Moves Ship From Remote Plateau The Roosevelt Flying Service, last Friday, removed its plane from the plateau 40 miles south of Pleasant Valley where it has been stranded since Ted Olpin set it down in an emergency last March. The plane returned home last Saturday at 1 a. m. with Howard Dennis and Pete Hunt as escorts. With a two-wheeled cart, built especially to handle the transportation of the ship over the rough Green River plateau terrain, Dennis and Hunt used guy-ropes and chain blocks to lower the two passenger Ercoupe over an 8 foot ledge and down to the cart. Pulled by two horses, the cart, with the plane tightly lashed to it, was worked over a hazardous trail Friday afternoon, arriving at a more permanent means of transportation at 6 p. m. The ship was loaded onto a waiting truck and transported to the : Roosevelt airport. Planning the removal of the plane has involved the mapping of a ground route to the scene of the near accident, and a carefully care-fully laid scheme of how best to remove it from the ledge. |