July 15, 201016 yr #1 I know an Me109 is not American, but stupidity is universal: http://www.namdalsavisa.no/Nyhet/article5126536.ece :pinch: Moderators, if out of line please remove. Greetz David
July 15, 201016 yr #2 We can let this one stay since it's a quite interesting video on how not to handle relics. Here's the moments just before and after the tail section broke off:
July 15, 201016 yr #3 D'OH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :pinch: What the heck possessed them to think THIS was a good idea !?!?!?!?
July 15, 201016 yr #5 Hvorfor? They are treating it like its something caught in a fishing net! Uff da! :thumbdown:
July 15, 201016 yr #6 Good thing that 65 years of corrosion doesn't impact metal structure of a submerged aircraft. Heck, I bet that thing could fly again once they finished drying it off.
July 15, 201016 yr #7 Well, I don't understand Finnish, but can anyone tell whether this is a Luftwaffe 109 or a Finnish one? We've been very fortunate in that those firms who have pulled airframes out of the Great Lakes took their time and did the job right. Jon
July 15, 201016 yr Author #8 Well, I don't understand Finnish, but can anyone tell whether this is a Luftwaffe 109 or a Finnish one? It might be in Norway, as the website is Norwegian. The Me109 is German, it has the Balkenkreuz. Finnish planes had a big swastika on the fuselage. Greetz David
July 15, 201016 yr #10 This reminds me of the aircraft sitting at the bottom of Lake Washington (in Seattle) at the end of the old runway of Naval Air Station Sand Point. P4Y-2 Privateer PV-2 Harpoon At the Museum of Flight, they have a restored FG-1D Corsair that was recovered from the same location in 1984.
July 15, 201016 yr #11 I read on that linked site that the scuba club had been searching for that plane wreck since 1980 or something like that. Imagine their excitement at seeing the wreckage raised only then to have it ripped apart! Still a pretty cool video though. Next time, let's hope it's a different salvage team :crying: Terry
July 15, 201016 yr Author #12 I read on that linked site that the scuba club had been searching for that plane wreck since 1980 or something like that. Imagine their excitement at seeing the wreckage raised only then to have it ripped apart! Oh well, they now have 2 of the ultra-rare Me54.5's! Greetz David
July 15, 201016 yr #14 In the off-season these guys design off shore oil rigs. LOL! That is funny! I darn near spewed my salad across the computer screen!
July 16, 201016 yr #15 Nice... absolutely no reinforcement or support as they lowered the item, which they did entirely too fast. They were handling it like it was a load of fish. I'd love to hear what the aviation history forums are howling about this one!
Friday at 04:30 PM4 days #19 In the summer of 2007, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning with USAAF serial number 41-7677 emerged from the sand of a beach in Wales where it crash landed in 1942, and it turned out to be largely intact and remarkably free of corrosion. It may a bit difficult to fully salvage the P-38 from the beach near Harlech, so any museum in the southern UK may have to weigh whether to recover the P-38 once the sands surrounding the aircraft are washed away by nature.
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