Hijacked Airliner Becomes Awesome California Camper
By C. MacDonald
I uncovered some really strange stories in my five years as a nationally-syndicated columnist, searching for the odd and unknown. One of the most unusual California people I interviewed was a Santa Claus-looking character from Cardiff named Smokey Rolland. He traded an old school bus for an Argonaut Airline DC-3, which flew out of Miami. Rolland said it had been hijacked twice to Cuba in the 1960s. In 1977, the plane “landed” in a Tucson, Arizona scrapyard. He placed it on a truck frame and hauled the metal craft to his front yard in Cardiff. In seven months, he turned it into an operable camper.
But that’s not the end of this story! A couple purchased the camper and renovated it into a Space Shuttle look-alike. It was taken overseas… read more>
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