DoraNineFan wrote:
michael luther wrote:
From what I have heard about it, it was in the greenland area, and was a USAF aircraft. Over the years the ice had melted around it, but not under it, leaving the B-17 on a ice platform, at some point a storm caught it and blew it off the platform, and creating more damage.
The storm story reminds of another B-17 conversation, but I just can't put my finger on it. It this the crashed B-17 that was eventually flipped over by a gale (with subsequent damage) or am I thinking of another B-17 that was crashed in the arctic? In Canada? In Newfoundland?
I think that maybe you are thinking of the B-17 recovered from the arctic by Gary Larkins about ten years ago. It has been mostly restored, as "My Gal Sal" by Gary's team, and a group in Cincinati(?). I am unsure about the aircraft in the photo. It does not look photoshopped to me. Neither does it look like the aircraft recovered from Labrador (that had a complete nose, and many other differences). My guess is that whatever has been recovered, it's not an intact airframe. I do know that Gary was looking for some B-17's lost in the arctic (or near arctic) waters though some years back... parhaps he's found one of them!
Richard
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