"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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Looking over recent photos of the P-38 "Glacier Girl", and reading
all ($$$) that was involved in its restoration, I was wondering...

What's stopping me from laying low during the next air show
and in the early hours of the morning, climbing into the cockpit
of my favorite warbird, and flying it off to my secret hideaway
runway and storage facility where I also keep my illicitly gained
Rembrandts, Van Goghs and pre-Columbian Indian art?


Not an aircraft, but an F-16 engine:

As the story goes:
Hill AFB, early '80's

A couple of SP's had been making off with lowlevel stuff, and fencing to a
mil surplus place downtown. Kept getting bigger and bigger, until the store
owners got nervous. They called the FBI.

"String em along. We'll be right there"

The FBI guys kept upping the stuff they wanted, and the SP's kept delivering

Finally, "Ok...we want an engine. An entire F-16 motor"
"OK"

So the two cops grabbed a bobtail tow truck, drove over to the engine shop,
hooked up to an engine on a trailer, and drove out the gate.
Look like you know what you're doing, and you may get away with it.

They're probably still in jail.

Pete