There me, Fred and Sassy were sitting in the hotel bar in Salta when the phone rings. Bartender answers it and then tells me that it's for me. Turned out to be one of my trusted aircraft brokers. Seems he found an old Focke Wulf 200A Condor up in Curacao and thought I might be interested. He knows I'm a sucker for the "unusual" stuff. It's one of the old Syndicato Condor of Brazil birds that was retired back in '47. It's history from then till now is pretty obscure, it's in almost new shape. I asked about the engines and was told that the early Condor's used BMW license built copies of the P&W Hornet so those parts should fit. The fly in the ointment is that it still has the original German gauges and radios and my German is pretty darn rusty to non-existent. But I've got a few hours Condor time in a 200C model back in the old CFS days. The 200A shouldn't be a major problem.
About this time I'm thinking.. Condor... Andes... hmm.... So I tell him to deliver it to Maracaibo and send the bill to Merc Air HQ in Rochford. Now to send a telegram to Miz Nellie and see if she'll allow it as a demonstration aircraft....
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