Flying boat crash-- 1943
Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:45 am
Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:15 pm
Oh man, now you have my attention. Do we know what the condition is?
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.
Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:38 am
So what, potential airworthy project? 
Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:43 am
Warbird Kid wrote:So what, potential airworthy project?
Or maybe a version of USS Arizona memorial.
My guess is scrap aircraft and not much of the people either. Sad.
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
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