Desdemona's Rocketship
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Desdemona's Rocketship
In the current Nov 11 issue of People magazine, there's a full page picture and story about the plane-boat named Cosmic Muffin, featured in "Where Is Joe Merchant? and Desdemona's Building A Rocketship. Planeboats.com has just gone online with almost everything you ever wanted to know about the real boat from the book and song - please visit and enjoy.
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Cosmic Muffin's sister ship
It is a shame the article did not mention Buffett in the article.
There is one other Boeing like Cosmic Muffin around, fully intact. Boeing is restoring it, again. It had been fully restored to old Pan American Airways colors (PAA flew the Clipper Ship flying boats Jimmy often references in his songs and books). In March 2002 it went off the runway in Seattle into the ocean when landing. It was recovered intact but will need restoration. http://www.aviationpics.de/oops/307/page_01.htm
There is one other Boeing like Cosmic Muffin around, fully intact. Boeing is restoring it, again. It had been fully restored to old Pan American Airways colors (PAA flew the Clipper Ship flying boats Jimmy often references in his songs and books). In March 2002 it went off the runway in Seattle into the ocean when landing. It was recovered intact but will need restoration. http://www.aviationpics.de/oops/307/page_01.htm