Warbird Information Exchange

So last month as I was passing through the airport I walk under the SBD dauntless at the Midway Airport. So I read about the aircraft and im not sure if i read right but was this plane pulled out from Lake Michigan??? And does it have the entire engine in it as well??

There have been quite a few wrecks pulled from Lake Michigan.

this is the registry entry for the SBD at Midway http://www.warbirdregistry.org/sbdregis ... 10575.html

I apparently don't fly out of Midway much, I had no clue they even had it there.

Denver Int'l Airport has a WW1 era Jenny bi-plane in the United terminal (if I remember right), as well as a Lear Jet another terminal. It's awesome what can be found at an airport while traveling.

yup thats the one. It hangs on the ceiling and looks pretty good to me for being in the lake so long.

In the summer of '84 or '85, I think, I saw a Dauntless from the Lake that was still on a flatbed trailer in P'cola. She was a Battle of Midway vet, as I recall. It gave me much pause to see several patches that looked like they were made from a beer can, in a real big hurry, after the mech had drunk the beer. They were real irregular cut outs with uneven riveting to match. What a testimony to the times and to her logbook.

There IS a Jenny at DIA in Denver, but more unique than that is the Carl Williams donated Alexander Eaglerock that Carl actually flew to the airport for its donation.....Carl is a great guy and we were privileged to fly with him once with the Eaglerock on a photo mission....unfortunately I don't have the pics with me to scan and put on show here....
M

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Mark Morris

Bit more info on the Midway Dauntless at:

http://www.hannahhayes.com/Inflight.htm

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Bob