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Show Kansan Watches P-80 Fuel Tank Fall Near Farm SABETHA. KANS. It's one thing to read about the P-80 Shooting Shoot-ing Star airplane and quite another an-other to hear one, not be able to see it, and then have one of its fuel tanks come hurtling down from the sky and land near you. Ask Otho L. Johnstone; he can tell you! At first Mr. Johnstone was puzzled puz-zled by the sound of the jet plane, for it did not sound like the ordinary planes which fly over Kansas all the time. Unable to see the plane, he picked out the location loca-tion of the sound, thinking a high-altitude high-altitude flyer was in trouble. Just then he saw an object come hurtling down, end over end. It landed farther from him than he expected, fortunately, and he went over to inspect it. Made of aluminum, alumi-num, it was about 12 feet long and had been crushed on one end by the fall, but not broken. There was about a gallon of fuel left In it. Two of the fuel tanks were found in this area. First to report one was Albert Holthaus, who lives near Maple Shade school. Since the tanks were just alike, it is possible that both came from the same plane. They are auxiliary auxili-ary tanks which can be dropped from the plane when the fuel in them is depleted. |