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     This past weekend I flew to the annual Antique Airplane Association Pumpkin Drop near my home town of Ottumwa, Iowa.

      This event is a lot of fun and this year nearly 30 airplanes showed up to drop pumpkins on a target in a near by field. The target was an old boat. The event starts with a potluck lunch followed by a briefing and then the “bombing” begins.

      People get really into it. One year they even had a B-25 load up the bomb bay and carpet bomb the target!  Don’t try this at home!
     As you can see, we had plenty of amo...