Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:31 pm
Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:32 pm
DaveM2 wrote:The Belgian Ju 88 example is owned by Chris Vanhee, I stayed with him back in 2000 for several days. He had major sections and almost everything to fit it out, but he will never get it to airworthy, he is one man with limited funds. IIRC he has been looking to sell what he has in recent years, but am not sure how that is progressing.
AFAIK, no examples in Europe are being rebuilt to airworthy, but there are several static museum restorations, mostly in Norway.
Sat Dec 08, 2018 6:47 pm
DaveM2 wrote:The Belgian Ju 88 example is owned by Chris Vanhee, I stayed with him back in 2000 for several days. He had major sections and almost everything to fit it out, but he will never get it to airworthy, he is one man with limited funds. IIRC he has been looking to sell what he has in recent years, but am not sure how that is progressing.
AFAIK, no examples in Europe are being rebuilt to airworthy, but there are several static museum restorations, mostly in Norway.
Sat Dec 08, 2018 7:50 pm
OD/NG wrote:DaveM2 wrote:The Belgian Ju 88 example is owned by Chris Vanhee, I stayed with him back in 2000 for several days. He had major sections and almost everything to fit it out, but he will never get it to airworthy, he is one man with limited funds. IIRC he has been looking to sell what he has in recent years, but am not sure how that is progressing.
AFAIK, no examples in Europe are being rebuilt to airworthy, but there are several static museum restorations, mostly in Norway.
Thanks for the info Dave M2.
So, we now have deduced there are two separate Belgian Ju-88's. So, that begs the question - what is the status of Eric Vormezeele's Ju-88?
Sat Dec 08, 2018 9:47 pm
DaveM2 wrote:OD/NG wrote:DaveM2 wrote:The Belgian Ju 88 example is owned by Chris Vanhee, I stayed with him back in 2000 for several days. He had major sections and almost everything to fit it out, but he will never get it to airworthy, he is one man with limited funds. IIRC he has been looking to sell what he has in recent years, but am not sure how that is progressing.
AFAIK, no examples in Europe are being rebuilt to airworthy, but there are several static museum restorations, mostly in Norway.
Thanks for the info Dave M2.
So, we now have deduced there are two separate Belgian Ju-88's. So, that begs the question - what is the status of Eric Vormezeele's Ju-88?
I don't believe EV has a Ju 88, Vanhee is the only one in Belgium.
Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:02 am
Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:47 am
Dave Hadfield wrote:There is probably one at the bottom of the Black Sea, along with a whole lot of other types, in anerobic conditions.
Sun Dec 09, 2018 2:56 pm
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Mon Dec 10, 2018 2:03 pm
Jesse C. wrote:I remember an article that appeared in one of the Warbird mags a few years back, about a lake in Europe that was drained due to too many fishing nets getting caught in junk, and they found a ton of stuff that included a complete B-17!
But, this was after the war and nothing was worth saving, thus it was all scrapped.
Anyone remember this article?
Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:51 pm
OD/NG wrote:Jesse C. wrote:I remember an article that appeared in one of the Warbird mags a few years back, about a lake in Europe that was drained due to too many fishing nets getting caught in junk, and they found a ton of stuff that included a complete B-17!
But, this was after the war and nothing was worth saving, thus it was all scrapped.
Anyone remember this article?
Ah yes, the infamous Zuiderzee! There was a great article about this in Air Classics magazine in the early 1970's. I have that issue, but haven't read it in a really long time. There were entire complete airframes recovered from that body of water, but I believe everything was scrapped. I don't believe anything other than a few small pieces have survived from the recoveries.
Here is a an old VHS video about the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTpAXE4WIJM
Also, a map with crash locations:
https://www.backtonormandy.org/themes/3 ... erzee.html
Mon Dec 10, 2018 5:38 pm