Mike,
 
ML> There a private jet waited.  Hughes inspected the Hawker Siddeley 748,
 
The Hawker Siddeley 748 is not a private jet but a 42-50 passenger
propeller plane which was heavily used in both military and civilian
versions.
 
I've flown in it often.
 
ML> It was during this time of high adventure that Howard Hughes discovered
ML> Watergate.  He was looking at a picture of an airplane in the London
ML> Express when he noticed a story about the crisis he had unwittingly
ML> caused.
 
As far as I know Howard Hughes name is nowhere even near-connected to Watergate.
 
ML> I'd recalled this as a DH125 some twenty years after reading this book
ML> but then - my appologies.
 
The DeHavilland DH125 on the contrary is a very successful businessjet also
marketed as Hawker Siddeley HS125 and as Hawker Raytheon 800.
 
ML> " Stary stary night ..
ML> amber fields of violet haze ..
ML> painted by the artist's loving hand .."
 
ML> And yes, I was present in the room in the Holiday Inn in Newton, Iowa,on
ML> New Year's eve after a flight in our Beech Baron N7826R up to Iowa for a
ML> sales closing in Baxter near there, when McClain sung his song for the
ML> very first time in public.
 
Make that Don McLean and I'm with you.
 
Take care,
 
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