> My wife and I used to joke about the
> sources of whiffs of smoke over the Bear Creek backwoods in North Alabama,
> as we flew over on our journeys back to Mississippi. But, I kept my
> distance.
The January 9th AOPA "Never Again" story is about this exact thing.
http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2015/February/Pilot/pe_na
“Those weren’t barbeque grills, son, they were moonshine stills,” he
said. “Those moonshiners saw your airplane, figured you were a federal
revenue agent, and took a shot at you! I knew you were between 3,000
and 5,000 feet because if you were lower than 3,000 feet the bullet
would have clipped through the entire wing; and if you had been above
5,000 feet nobody with a pistol would have tried to hit you."
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Ken Norton
ken@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.zone-10.com
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