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Another Dauntless Pulled from a Lake!


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http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/04/ap_b...alvaged_042409/

 

Captain Ellis is my co-workers Father.

 

He's on the deck in the famous Viet Nam photo of the USS Midway with the South Vietnam Officer who landed his small airplane on the deck to save his family at the end of the war.

 

Today he helps raise wrecked aircraft from the bottom lakes.

 

Great to see another of these noble aircraft being rescued!

 

Leonardo

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When I went to the National Naval Aviation Museum in 2000, two recovered aircraft were displayed in a darkened room as they were found. Looked like you were on the lake bottom with them.

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Man , that bird is in really great shape for being there so long, that one should be a fairly easy retoration, especially if they're not planning on makiung it flyable , great either way and that another somewhat "rarer" bird will be saved !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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