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Is there any news about the Halifax that was due to be rised from the sea?

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Hi Ollie--

That'd be LW170, in the Irish Sea? There was something about that on FP quite recently. IIRC the same gent who spearheaded the recovery of NA337 now at Trenton was involved with this one, but with all the recoveries in Norway recently I could have my wires crossed on that detail. I do definitely recall that the Nanton museum was involved on LW170...so if she comes out of the depths, she could be headed to Alberta! Peter Whitfield (Nanton connection) and Cees Broere (as keen on the Hally as I am on Furies) might know more on LW170.

Cheers

S.

(BTW...you're not after a Hispano 1112, are you...?)

Yes that is correct LW170 (QB I) of 424 squadron will eventually go to Nanton as long as she is structurally able to withstand being raised up. More on this incredible project at:
http://www.57rescuecanada.com/index.htm

Well if the LW170 project fails, there is always plan B, C, D and E.

Not joking, mind you

Here's to hoping.

Cees

Oops, forgot to log in.

Cees

Excellent guys!

Thanks alot!

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Peter--

LW170 is a 424 bird? Wow! Didn't know that. Being a Hamiltonian I have a soft spot for all things Hamilton Tiger! (And if this were the late 70s...NLS would probably have had some competition from CWH...)

Cheers

S.

(...and Cees--Roll on plans B through E, wherever they are...never can have too many Hallies about!)

Steve,

You are oh so right about that, you can never have too many Hally's.

Well as I hinted at earlier, there are several possible candidates for a complete recovery. LW170 of course is the one that the main focus is on about (and rightly so), but the two attacks on Tirpitz in 1942 cost the RAF a lot of Halifaxes. One of those is of course W1048, but two more of the participating Halifaxes ditched in fjords, one of these was described by the crewmembers when they stepped from the wing into the dinghy as:

the aircraft slipped beneath the waves.....

Well, how about that for visualising with your eyes closed.

I mentioned this to Karl Kjarsgaard recently and he admitted that he had never thought about that, and he was very interested and asked me to provide the serialnumbers of the two aircraft, which I duly did.

Worth checking out IMHO.

so who knows....... I keep my fingers crossed.

Cheers

Cees