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Trains were crowded; automobiles were
rapidly filling the roads and streets. What
they needed was a fast and convenient
way to access both their offices-from the
city's miles of riverfront-and their lakeside
lodges upstate. Something like, say, a large,
modern, amphibious airplane. Loening
recommended a nearby company headed
by one of his former employees, Leroy
Grumman. Grumman accepted the challenge, and the result became an aviation
classic: the Grumman Goose.
The Goose was the first Grumman airplane with fewer than two wings and more
than one engine. The first one flew in 1937
and several were completed for private owners over the next two years. The onset of
World War II opened up a whole new market
for a rugged, versatile, amphibious airplane
that could haul several people-or a couple of depth charges. Eventually 345 Gooses
(Geese?) were built. They would serve with
four U.S. armed services and dozens of
foreign ones. Roles included personnel transport, training, and anti-submarine patrol.
After the war, people and goods still
needed to get from one place to another
in places where runways were scarce and
water was plentiful. One of the airplanes,
serial number 1161, now lives in Spokane,
on the eastern edge of Washington state.
Produced under the military designation JRF-6B, it first flew a year after the
Pearl Harbor attack and immediately
went to Britain's Royal Navy under the
Lend-Lease program. It spent the war
years based in Trinidad, moving personnel between the Caribbean islands and
Florida. After the war it served for a couple
years with the U.S. Navy and then bounced
around for decades. It flew passengers to
Catalina Island in California, worked for
an oil company in the Gulf of Mexico, and
ended up where Gooses tend to end up-
in Alaska. It flew there until it was retired
in 1988. In 1994 it went on outdoor display at the Palm Springs Air Museum in
Southern California. That's where Addison
Pemberton acquired it in 2012-just past its
seventieth birthday.
Pemberton, along with his wife, Wendy,
and his sons Jay and Ryan, has been restoring historic aircraft for decades. The
family received worldwide notice when
they took a few scraps of twisted wreckage and re-created-the word "restored" is
too small-the oldest flying Boeing in the
THE ESSENCE
of the Goose: a
hull, wheels, and
power (right). It
never looked so
good in the Navy
(far right).
Addison Pemberton flies the
newly restored
Goose. Mounting
the exhausts on
top of the engine
nacelles makes
for a surprisingly
quiet cabin.
IN THE HANGAR,
THE GOOSE LOOKED LIKE A BIG BOAT.
IN THE AIR, IT DOESN'T FLY LIKE ONE.
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