Flying boat crash-- 1943

Versatile · **Joined:** Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:35 pm **Posts:** 636

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008 ... 46-cp.html

Unknown as to what flying boat it was.

JDK · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:52 am

http://www.flyingboatfestival.ca/digita ... ersSub.asp

Sikorsky VS44

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:15 pm

Oh man, now you have my attention. Do we know what the condition is?

JDK · **Posted:** Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:11 pm

Warbird Kid wrote:

:shock: Oh man, now you have my attention. Do we know what the condition is?

Shallow salt water 65 years after a botched recovery attempt. Go on, you guess.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:38 am

So what, potential airworthy project? :roll:

JDK · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:43 am

Warbird Kid wrote:

So what, potential airworthy project? :roll:

Or maybe a version of USS Arizona memorial.

My guess is scrap aircraft and not much of the people either. Sad.

Canso42 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:53 pm

IMHO it should be left alone as a grave site. The airframe is garbanzo anyway. However, I always wondered what that fate of the third VS-44 was.
The XPBS-1 had a similar fate in the Pacific. It apparently hit some floating mega-FOD and flipped violently over. The upside down wings were later raised with what was left of the fuselage attached. If I can ever manage photobucket, I'll send a photo of the raised wreck.
The third airframe sits in restored static spendor at NEAM looking good, the sole surviving big 'clipper'.

floats up!
Doug

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