Chris Brame wrote:
WAIT A MINUTE!! Davie, isn't that a large version of that "mystery" B-17 photo on the Air Pirates site that created a lot of buzz a few years ago? Looks like you cleared that one up!
Also, the way things are now, I wonder if someone will still go after Big Stoop and its mate someday? When you consider how there probably aren't any other available "project" B-17s left besides maybe the stored Brazilian example, and how many of the current projects have new-build fuselage components, it might be worthwhile to get the Greenland planes for all the intact internal parts to build a fuselage around (or at least they'd go a long way towards finishing Desert Rat and the Paul Allen E-model internally). What do you think?
Aside from our team up there now, I know a group was up there not too long ago, 2011-12 I think it was, looking for the P-38's and maybe the B-17's although I can't confirm that last piece.
Thinking aloud for discussion purposes......I'm thinking it would require a pretty good size cavern and shaft to manipulate and bring a disassembled B-17 to the surface. They are at least 260' down below the ice....likely deeper by now. A bigger borer would have to be built.
A C-53 thought.....I'm hoping during the demobilization of the Duck Hunt camp in a few days the guys can place a GPS sat-tracker in a search box we have developed for the C-53 not too far away.