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Interesting little photo gallery including WWII aircraft

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/02/living/gallery/airplane-crashes/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

I wonder if there is ever going to come a time when it will be historically desirable (or economically feasible) to recover those various wrecks.

Great pics! Thanks.

My guess is that there will come a time when almost any WWII airplane will be desirable for recovery. Look at what lenghts the WWI era folks go to for information, let alone actual parts, to replicate their aircraft. Someday, even having drawings of parts with become valuable information.

That B-24D looks like another Swamp Ghost waiting to happen. Anybody know the story on this one ??

Surely that Shackleton is worth recovering...

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

It's quite well known in the UK aviation community...in fact there is a book on it. If it could be easily/cheaply recovered, it would have been. The fact that the CAA won't let them them fly in the UK seriously lessens their value (That's why there is one at Pima). At any rate, there are two better examples on an island in the med...and no one has bought them yet.

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.

great looking book! Thanks for heads up! (pulls out CC)

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There is something deeply wrong with a society more offended by breasts than by entrails.

Searched through the B-24Ds on pacificwrecks.com and found it's 42-40885; info here:
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b ... 40885.html

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

I had understood that the B-24 burned up in a grass fire a few years back.

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i remember fishing on lake in Canada called kagianagami 200 miles south of james bay where a 50's era dehavilland otter went down in the lake & you could see it 20 feet or more down in yellow, sitting on it's pontoons. there were fatalities in the crash, I recall how creepy it looked.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

In 2008 when I was in Iceland working on the Greenland Duck Hunt, there was a pretty gal at the Hilton who told me a story about a B-"something" that crashed landed during WWII. It was on her grandfather's farm and her and the local kids played on/in it years ago. She said the hull was still there at the farm. Kinda wished I had asked more questions.