Tyche
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 35
After the ‘most rigid’ visual inspection possible, the constituent parts were shipped off to Texas ... there to be ‘stress tested’ to a fare-thee-well by the original shipper ... Except ... the shipper confessed to using MY Scarlett as replacement parts ... replacing said parts with the ‘latest’ and ‘greatest’ improved pieces from the factory as they came in.
However ... that revelation came too late ... I was immersed in study at the University of Texas in Austin ... and fifteen.
Why the gap?
High School was ‘uneventful’ ... and ‘boring.’ “Nothing to see here ... Move along.”
Except...
... ain’t it the truth.
There is Always Something.
Charlie Arthur died. Charlie was a LONG TIME Pentwater resident.
After seven years, his estate came up for auction.
World War Two memorabilia.
And I went...
Dumbshit!
Skipped class ... The ONLY time I missed a class ... and went.
The auctioneer knew me and issued me a bidding card.
There were barns full of scrap ... well ... junk ... umh ... mostly. I bought a B-29 Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone a twin-row, supercharged, air-cooled, radial aircraft engine with 18 cylinders displacing nearly 55 L. Power ranged from 2,200 to over 3,700 hp (1,640 to 2,760 kW), depending on the model ... or ... so the flyer said.
It wasn’t. A B-29 engine.
The Other bidder, A David Anderson, from Holland, Michigan, was ferocious ... upping the price a thousand at a time.
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