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Penny For Your Thoughts

By Giacinta Bradley Koontz

A Pratt & Whitney tradition -- Since when?

The first penny I saw affixed to a Pratt & Whitney engine was on the nose of a fully restored AT-6C owned by Jim Levrett, a retired captain with FedEx (he hired on when it was still Flying Tiger Airlines). Levrett is now an AI who works on his own aircraft in a sumptuous hangar at Kingman, AZ. I accepted his invitation to take an air tour over Lake Havasu in his warbird last year, (spectacular!) and from his photos I already knew this "6" was a "10."

There are few moments as dramatic as driving up to a spartan line of corrugated T-hangars ...

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