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No waves, no way — this loggerhead doesn’t like to fly. All 95 pounds of him squirmed and kicked his flippers as volunteer pilot Ron Santos struggled to fit him through the cockpit door. He clambered back out just as ornery, some 1,300 miles later. Even Santos, who has flown Angel Flight trips before with the East Cooper Pilot’s Association, had to admit it: This wasn’t your usual medical transport. The loggerhead and two somewhat smaller Kemp's Ridley turtles arrived in Mount Pleasant Wednesday after taking off with Santos in Biddleford, Maine. The loggerhead was on its way to the South Carolina Aquarium, the others to a Georgia sea turtle hospital, to continue treatment after they were stunned by cold waters in the North Atlantic last year. Read more in tomorrow’s editions of The Post and Courier.

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