salmon-thirty-salmon

salmon-thirty-salmon
nickname of an Alaskan airlines 737 jet painted to look like a salmon. The U.S. Congress subsidised the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board in 2003 with $500,000 and the money was spent on painting the jet

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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