The Airplane That Studied the Ocean

Amy E. Nevala at Oceanus highlights the chance reunion of Ed Denton, with a plane that he had outfitted and maintained for oceanographic research decades earlier at WHOI.

In early April 1997, Denton was visiting a friend who had moved from Cape Cod to California. One day, while his friend went golfing, Denton decided to tour the Aerospace Museum of California in Sacramento.

“After going through the exhibits in the buildings, I went to view the 30 or so old military and civilian aircraft parked outside. I was walking the rows, and I spotted a plane with a long fiberglass nose,” which was unusual for that type of plane, Denton said. “Something funny got to me. My senses told me there was something very familiar here.”

Read the whole story here at Oceanus.