European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                -  , sane to saudi Arabia by Paul Kackley staff writer with All the Sand in saudi Arabia hauling More of the stuff into that country would seem like carrying coals to Newcastle taking Taffy to Atlantic City or Beer to Munich. But at Laon air base in France there is a Pilot and an air plane that actually hauled bags of Sand to saudi Arabia. The Pilot capt. John d. Pennekamp is now the information services officer for the 66th tactical reconnaissance Wing there and the plane is the desert Queen ac47 recently assigned to Laon after spend ing years at Dhahran Airfield in Saud Arabia. Pennekamp was reminded of his unusual Sand hauling Mission when he saw the Queen parked on the Laon flight line. I noticed the number on it and thought it was the plane i flew at 2d air division during 1953 and 1954," Pennekamp said. So i went Home and looked through some old snapshots until i found one of the desert Queen. The aircraft numbers were the  actually the Queen one of the younger c47s in the air Force since it was built to 1944 carried the number 476656 at that time since then an air p orce renumbering project changed the 4 to a 0. When i Drew the Sand hauling Mission i thought .1 was being kidded Renne Karrip recalls then an Engineer told me that the Sand was to be used for mixing Concrete and that the local Sand had blown around on the desert for so Long that each Grain was perfectly round an would not stick in  Pennekamp accepted the explanation and hauled tons of Sand to saudi Arabia in coarse cloth bags which leaked Sand allover the aircraft. I ill bet there is still Sand inside of the Queen Rennecamp said. While the Sand May have been the mos unusual Load the Queen hauled it was not the most interesting. According to Penne Kamp he flew the Queen to a desert format Suradi to take it Gen William h. Tunner then commander in chief of us afe and George Wadsworth then . Ambassador to saudi Arabia to a meeting with King Saud. There was t any runway there Pennekamp remembers. So 1 landed on the desert and taxied right up to the  the Queen also made a great contribution to science with one flight. It went to India to pick up some monkeys which were later flown Back to the . And used for the Salk polio vaccine experiments. But the gooney Bird logged most of its time on International  according to Pennekamp. Our food supplies came in by ship about every two  he said. So we flew to Chest of Over the Iddie East of Oge Iresh eggs vegetables and other Gijo Deri Teto go with the slip Perl in  v Goren on neither vulnerable. West Deal North 4 q j 109 a q j 9 k 10 9 6 West east4k 5 2 a 9 v k 86 v 5 4 3 2 k 9 7 3 2 a 6 4 South a k 8 76 4 3v 10 a 3 10 8 5 the bidding East southpaws 1 4 pass 3 4 pass 4 a pass 6 a past Ieada i Declarer i natron contracting for slam himself. Over four Spades South " 1 j l have probed with a ibid of five Diamond s. This would have made it Clear that his worries entered around the club situation. With a favourable holding North bids  his actual holding he Are turns to five Spades Fri Chi close the auction.  decided to play a waiting Gar few Tho on the basis of the bidding most players would have chosen a club Lead. Declarer won the Trump open ing and refrained from drawing the remaining Trump lest the de sense be Given an Opportunity to signal. He then played Ace and Queen of hearts discarding the three of diamonds West in with the King of 4 arts anal influenced by South s discard reasoned that South had control Cleoto a car whenever Thev come due Neavy cation traffic. Your vehicle must � Tyr tuesday july 14, 19s9