Warbird Information Exchange

Hey boys,

Calm down, make love not war (errr, not to each other ).

Good to hear about your plans for the Lincoln Rob, I hope you succeed in bringing her back.

Cheers

Cees

The question is, if something is overly explained like your in the 2nd grade how long can it be tolerated? Ah well, maybe that's for a psychology or social sciences discussion board. Anyway..

Hi all

Whilst on the subject of mass P39 strandings perhaps you are aware that a mass incident happened in Australia during WW11 on the Northern coast of Queensland when a couple of dozen p39s went down on their way to PNG. Most crashed on beaches or close in on the coast. Two survived to be restored and one is now being rebuilt again at Wangarratta to fly and the other is with Sid Becks collection here in Queensland. A lot of people have gone after these wrecks over the years and a buried one was dug up - very corroded - a few years back on a beach.

Any lurkers out there have any more information on any other survivors.


Kindest regards
John P

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Air Vice Marshall
Sunshine State Air Farce

John:

If I am correct, a few force landed on an Island.

Hi Chris

I hadn't realised some were on an Island - I thought most were on the NE coast of Queensland - I must look into it - they have been fairly well researched by a couple of groups over the years so it shouldn't be too hard to obtain the dispersement of the airframes and what is still in situ.

Regards
John P

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Air Vice Marshall
Sunshine State Air Farce

John:

There was something mentioned in a magazine or website that possibly mentioned some of these force landed on an Australian island up on the north end of Australia in a roughly straight line from the beginning point to the destination.

Chris

Hi Chris

There is a semi formal group looking into these crashes and they have been to most of the sites - I will dig up the info and post it here and PM you on it. Most of the crashed aircraft were destroyed/buried so they wouldn't confuse searchers looking for later crashes.

As an aside go to my Webshots account at community.webshots.com/user/setter125 , then go to the Boston page and have a look at the shots of the A20 "steak and eggs" which crashed on the same beach as one of the P39s

regards
John P

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Air Vice Marshall
Sunshine State Air Farce

Hi John:

I'll do that. I believe I read the story of some P-39s bellying in on an Aussie Island from the original P-39 restorer's site. I guess the project has been bought from him since.