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sabredriver wrote:My mate rattled off to me tonight over 300 wrecks in various states thruout oz and i was startled...
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The Northern Territory currently has 232 listed shipwrecks and 73
listed aircraft wrecks (lost at sea), the majority of which have yet to be
located. Information relating to these wrecks can be found on the Museum and
Art Gallery of the Northern Territory�s Shipwreck database.
Lake Corangamite plane crash: A crashed World War II RAAF Wirraway
aircraft was discovered in early Junein Lake Corangamite, near Colac,
Victoria. Heritage Victoria protects all aircraft crash sites over 50
years old as historic archaeological sites, and the RAAF has been briefed on
the find. The site was recently exposed by receding water levels in the
Lake and reported by Parks Victoria officers to Heritage Victoria. The site
appears intact and remains mostly submerged. This plane is believed to be an
RAAF Wirraway Serial No. A20-405 that is recorded as having crashed into
Lake Corangamite, 400 metres from shore on 17 March 1943. There were at
least 355 military aircraft crashes recorded in Victoria during World War
II, most of them the result of training incidents. Wirraways were the first
aircraft to be mass manufactured in Australia, and this eighteen years
before the first mass manufactured Australian car. Between 1939 and 1946 the
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) produced 755 Wirraways for use as a
general purpose trainer, though they saw action in the desperate defence of
Malaya and Papua New Guinea where they were lost at an appalling rate to
superior Japanese MitMalaya and Papua New Guinea where they were lost at an
appalling rate to superior Japanese Mitsubishi Zero fighters. Only eight
Wirraways are still in existence as restored or partly restored historic
aircraft
Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:36 am
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There is a famous 30 page A3 print out of RAAF co-ordinates of WW2 crash sites that every man and his dog copied during the 1980s and which has been scanned and uploaded onto the web, although even more elaborate websites with lists have since been developed.
Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:15 pm
JDK wrote:sabredriver wrote:My mate rattled off to me tonight over 300 wrecks in various states thruout oz and i was startled...
Sorry, you mate's talking rubbish.
All the 'good' stuff's been picked up - just read up rather than believing a mate...
Exporting from Australia's also a bit of a no-no, but does depend on the circs.
The wrecks are now all in sheds around Australia (and elsewhere) - some of it's flying again, some, Beauforts and Beaufighters are due to fly again some day, but the easy bit was gathering the wrecks - the hard bit is rebuilding them. Some of the sheds are called the RAAF Museum, and AWM. One is the NMUSAF's 'new' Beaufighter.
The pros have already done it.
Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:33 pm