Rocket88 wrote:
According to what I read, the location of the P38s and B17s from the lost squadron are known based on the location of the other two aircraft already discovered. The salvage team that recovered glacier girl will go after whichever aircraft you'd like from the lost squadron, granted you obtain and pay for the salvage rights and pay for the expedition, 100% up front, regardless what comes out of the hole once located. Big risk for a crumpled p38 or B17.
John, is your team up there now looking for the Duck?
Some of the guys (2) that were on the Glacier Gal recovery are on the Duck Hunt now. Lou Sapienza is the CEO of NSP (North South Polar) and WeeGee Smith is the other guy. Gary Larkin and company were there on the 2009 mission. There were some other Glacier Gal folks who we spoke with on specific matters.
http://www.nspolar.us/Just to clarify my involvement along with another Coastie in the same HQ office, we started with the initial historical research and planning back in 2008. It grew from there with more people and resources. Once we had the crash site figured out, we flew over it in 2008 for photo recon. In 2009 a short trip to the site was done to locate a specific target we had from an airborne sensor. In 2010 a more comprehensive mission was there to bore down to that target. Unfortunately it didn't pan out. Afterward we located some new historical info that gave us a better geographical location and a description of the crashed Duck. We then got some new airborne sensor targets to work. In 2012 the team located a promising target which is where they are right now. The 2012 target is several hundred yards from the 2009/10 target. I was on the 2008, 2009 and 2010 trips. I didn't make the 2012 mission and health issues kept me off this mission. These days I just try to help where I can. Anyway, during the course of the Duck research, we located enough clues to give us a good, future search box for the missing C-53 that has 5 MIA's on it. If we were to fly from roughly west to east, the aircraft layout would be (1) the B-17 call sign PN9E, (2) the Duck, (3) the C-53 search box and then the (4) Lost Squadron planes. I would guesstimate this is all within a 30 - 35 mile range. Some of this is in the new, best selling book Frozen In Time.
Here is the ongoing blog for the current mission.
http://live.boston.com/Event/Frozen_in_ ... ry_mission