Warbird Information Exchange

Sorry, cuttlefish is not a fish (or a vertebrate for that matter). It is a relative of the squid, and as such has not bones at all. The silly things one learns in school...

. But after a couple of decades they have about a much credibility as your heroes W/Cheney have on WMD, or anything else. .

Bill Greenwood wrote:
For Mudge, although I doubt he would give me the same courtesy.

Perhaps 20 years ago a group started a booth at EAA events, etc, something like The Group of Historical Aircraft Research, to locate the real historic missing aircraft. They seemed sincere, if a bit naive, and were more interested in the history rather than having a restored fighter or B-25 to fly. I had some doubts, as they knew little about warbirds, but I gave them a small donation, lot's of others did also. Richard Gillespie, who is ex army and is a pilot, is the head of it, maybe with his wife.
They made a big deal about searching for The White Bird, the plane of French aces Nungeser and Coli, (sp?) and had a lot of evidence that it might have actually crossed the Atlantic and crashed in the woods of Maine, or somewhere. Lot's of tantilizing tidbits, like a farmer that heard an engine fly over, but no plane. As the mob saying goes, They probably sleep with the fishes.

They then got on the Amelia story. When a piece of aluminum skin was found on an island they claimed the rivet holes were a perfect match to her repair, when an aluminum box was found, they claimed it was from her plane. Noted author and warbird vet Jeff Ethel pointed out to me that each PBY had a similar box and PBYs were all over those islands in the war. A womans shoe sole was found, size 9 and they claimed it was probably hers. Jeff told me that Amelia, who was a slim lady, had size 5 shoes at her museum display in Kansas. Tighar, claimed that her feet must have grown from a 5 to a 9 as she got older.

Much of their stuff sounds sort of scientific, and makes good press. But after a couple of decades they have about a much credibility as your heroes W/Cheney have on WMD, or anything else. And they have actually found nothing real. I have never seen a report of their donors or finances. They did get some vacations to the south pacific paid for by others.


Mr. Greenwood,
You're right, but only because you just don't seem to be able to resist throwing in the snide political commentary.
Didn't that kind of crap get you banned once before?

Mudge

Mr. Greenwood,
You're right, but only because you just don't seem to be able to resist throwing in the snide political commentary.
Didn't that kind of crap get you banned once before?

Mudge

Mudge wrote:




Mudge,

Some advice about this kind of drivel, someone once told me not to get in the mud and wrestle with the pigs because the pigs like it and in no time at all the observers can't tell you from the pigs because of the mud.

I think Bill is about as dangerous as an Iraqi WMD. I only wish that, like the other WMDs he was so well hidden that I couldn't find him or didn't exist in the first place.

On the TIGHAR web site they explain what $50,000 dollars of your money will allow you to do on said tropical island for a couple of weeks.

WallyB: As I remember, it was not an official search but research done by a private french association.
They only have during a few days in June 2010, the support of a French navy's ship for sonar search. But nothing was found.

The last info available, said that this association found in the US "National Archives" a message from a Coast Guard, reporting the discoveries of a set of white wings, in the area few weeks after the flight of Nungesser and Coli.

i saw discovery channel's airing last night. gillespie looked like geraldo rivera when they opened al capone's empty safe on national tv. insert foot.....