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during a live firing in a WW2 tank, a round exploded, killing two men in that tank

2 guys in a 1944 tank destroyer died when one little thing went completely wrong at a public firing range in Oregon where they were enjoying their hobby. They were firing the big cannon (76 mm)on the tank for a video production about the tank destroyer, the M-18 Hellcat, built by Buick, and purchased for $60,000 prior to restoration

One was 51 year old Todd Preston, owner of a towing company in Portland and board director of a historical military vehicle association, who used the M18 for school and hospital fundraisers

Preston had spent 12 years restoring the M 18, and in 2011, the Discovery Channel recorded it's first live firings for a show they produced about military vehicles.

http://www.ktvz.com/news/explosion-in-tank-east-of-bend-injures-2-possible-fatality/36082806
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2015/10/2_men_killed_in_tank_explosion.html

the Wall Street Journal just did a story on it http://www.wsj.com/articles/this-hellcat-still-purrs-along-nicely-1443537440 where Todd said " Mine was built in 1944 by Buick in Flint, Mich., with a 975-cubic inch airplane engine in it. According to my records, it was sold as surplus after World War II to the Yugoslavian military, where it was used in the civil war there in the 1990s. I found it in Denver and bought it in 1999 for $60,000, and immediately set to restoring it. It loves aviation fuel, but I can pump regular leaded gas into it."

well... isn't having a phrase like "in god we trust" on top of a license plate just asking for it to be mocked? Well played Wombat person!

I'd seriously try to get "Satan" on my plate... but I'm just the type of person to push back at religious bullshit on government issued legally required registration plates.

I refer of course, to the constitutional freedom from govt sponsored religion in the USA as stated in it's foundational paper, I find that stating the notion of the govt trusting in a god to be contradictory to that constitutional freedom, and all common sense and realistic observation that our, and most, governments have no trust in anything but money, corruption, kickbacks to election donors, and making rich people richer.

I'm not sure if they intended to off load at a loading dock, or use a flatbed tow truck... but they did get the van off the semi trailer

it's always an option

better than I ever imagined airplane food could be

and you can select the tail camera to get a look at how the surrounding airspace and view below are

the shower... on the airplane

the bar, on the airplane, in 1st class

Sam has an informative travel blog, took all these photos, and says that this is possible to do on less than a paycheck... he says he did it all on 300 dollars. A larger gallery can be seen of the whole trip at http://www.businessinsider.com/man-gets-60000-emirates-airlines-flight-with-frequent-flyer-miles-loophole-2015-10?r=UK&IR=T