Yesterday I was reading about
some guys who dug up a 150 year old river boat that was buried under 45 feet of mud in a farmer's field in Kansas. This morning I'm reading about
some guys who dug up a WW2 fighter that was buried under 265 feet of ice in a glacier in Greenland. Kind of weird to encounter two recent archaeological digs of recent events in two days, especially since there is no connection between the two. Here's some pics I collected of this one.
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| P-38 and B-17 where they were set down in 1942. |
They spent $2.5 million retrieving this one airplane and another half a million restoring it to operating condition. Probably not a profitable venture, but emotionally satisfying.
1 comment:
What many don't know, is that the ice sheet in Greenland is 10 to 11,000 feet amsl.
If, for any reason (like low fuel), these planes needed to fly on one engine instead of two, the inland ice could be above the single-engine ceiling :-(
Been, there, and crossed it in a single engined non-turbocharges plane :-)
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