Nathan wrote:
Seriously if there is no cooperation with the PNG gov'ment then you might as well go in and steal those wrecks.
I am serious about that.
I hope you aren't.
Really not a good idea.
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What good is the PNG doing with rare aircraft wrecks all over the place?
Good question. They're the leftovers from a war that the people of PNG didn't start, didn't have any control over and lost a lot of lives in. While the Japanese would've treated the people of PNG worse than the Western mandates, we don't have a great success story to share there either, while acknowledging many good works. It's a tough place which the west has exploited, and operates to different rules to what we might regard as 'normal'.
Be grateful no one's been fighting over your land in living memory, dumping their junk and then demanding it back 60 years later - or you might be pretty antagonistic to foreigners. The positive reception of most westerners in PNG by the locals is a good thing, but some of the rude remarks and arrogant attitudes shown here previously don't help the case, nor impress - and yes, people from PNG do have access to the internet and this forum.
Don't make remarks you'd not be prepared to see about
your homeland and people seems reasonable to me.
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Maybe because Swamp Ghost has already been paid for at least once?
I've got a nice bridge for you bdk, says 'London' on it and everything.
People will sell other people stuff stuff.
Caveat Emptor has been a rule since the Romans. At the least we have an uncompleted deal, interrupted due to a despite over the legality of the sale. Right or wrong? I don't know, but just like a used car or a London bridge, there's a lot of people who get caught out or aren't quite as fast or as clever as they need to be. No disrespect to anyone, even Arizona bridge owners. Doubt there's a consumer affairs office prepared to help on this one.
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Maybe thats partly why the RAAF had to negotiate for airframes: private collectors working that quagmire.
I'm not
au fait with the details, but that was then, and handled high-level - I think diplomatically. I don't know that that deal could be done now; maybe, maybe not.
The Swamp Ghost situation is a mess, and no one is benefiting and unless someone is smart enough to break the deadlock, with some serious diplomatic skills to handle the case so everyone comes out looking and smelling good, no one will benefit. This wouldn't be the first aircraft lost to posterity due to a failed recovery, and probably not the last. Some people think that an aircraft retains some notional value irrespective of the condition of it, or its decay over time - tragedy when they're the people in control of the machine, and much as some might not like it, it's a factor of fully-unregulated capitalism, going back to bdk's point.
Just a view,
Regards,
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