Another recovery attempt on one of the P38s burried Greenland.

[freakazoid]

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/arctic-p-38-lightning-recovery-set-summer.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/redland-bay-man-joins-dig-second-world-war-aircraft.html?src=fba&type=wca&page=who

Looks like they have made a few treks out there already. It sounds like you can get on the team, or at least could of last year. I would so go out there if my current situation allowed for it!

[Hawkmoon]

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/arctic-p-38-lightning-recovery-set-summer.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/redland-bay-man-joins-dig-second-world-war-aircraft.html?src=fba&type=wca&page=who

Looks like they have made a few treks out there already. It sounds like you can get on the team, or at least could of last year. I would so go out there if my current situation allowed for it!

You tube has a documentary about the attempt to recover a WW2 bomber from Greenland. The team brought in new engines, new propellers, and new avionics and basically rebuilt the plane over the course of a Greenland "Summer." Everything checked out. When they were making their taxi run to fly it out, the APU shifted, shorted, and the plane burned to the ground.

I cried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4YBwjQTds

[HeroHog]

A friend of mine was on that recovery attempt, Vernon Rich Jr.. He and I used to race together in the Red River Region of the S.C.C.A. in Shreveport, LA. He had a shop there at the time.

[Northwoods]

Most of the warbird recoveries and restorations I've read about should be called replicas with a small number of original parts.

[freakazoid]

Yeah. I've heard that Glacier Girl only has about 20% of it's original parts. I got to see it at an airshow with a few other P38s. I posted pictures... somewhere here.

You tube has a documentary about the attempt to recover a WW2 bomber from Greenland. The team brought in new engines, new propellers, and new avionics and basically rebuilt the plane over the course of a Greenland "Summer." Everything checked out. When they were making their taxi run to fly it out, the APU shifted, shorted, and the plane burned to the ground.

I cried.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u4YBwjQTds

Damn. My Grandpa flew in a B-29, Thumper.

[Hawkmoon]

Most of the warbird recoveries and restorations I've read about should be called replicas with a small number of original parts.

It's all in how you look at it. I used to know a guy from Rhode Island who was from a VERY old New England family. He used to tell people that he owned George Washington's hatchet.*





*(Of course, since GW owned it, it had had six new handles and three new he*ads ... but it was the same hatchet.)

[agricola]

It's all in how you look at it. I used to know a guy from Rhode Island who was from a VERY old New England family. He used to tell people that he owned George Washington's hatchet.*





*(Of course, since GW owned it, it had had six new handles and three new he*ads ... but it was the same hatchet.)

the old Trigger's broom joke!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE

[MechAg94]

That is a cool picture.

[Hawkmoon]

I really wonder why they're going to all the trouble. If we just wait a few years, the ice will be gone and they can get the planes out without any of this special equipment.

[MechAg94]

I really wonder why they're going to all the trouble. If we just wait a few years, the ice will be gone and they can get the planes out without any of this special equipment.