Hey guy’s, I just got a call from my mother-in -law at Cape May, New Jersey. They are having a little air show at the airport. They will also be having Plane rides and walk throughs of a B-17, B-24, and B-25. If your close by or in the area it should be a good time. I think they are there till Friday along with some other aircraft. Alas, I will be working and miss it. [BH]
Chris
Hey Chris
They are all heading up to Long Island this weekend. They are from the Collings Foundation and fly into the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale every Labor Day. They should be on LI from Thursday until Monday (or Tuesday) depending on what the weatherman says.
Regards,
Freddie from LI
At Cape May there used to be a concrete ship that got beached not far from shore during a hurricane. Is it still there?
Definitely worth seeing. They were in the St. Louis area earlier.
Yep, the Atlantus is still there. I was just there last week, there’s also a WWII sub spotting tower not far away.
Would you happen to have a picture of it? I’ve tried to explain it to my wife with some success. What helped is when she saw a freighter at Okinawa that got torn away from its dock and taken out of the harbor by a typhoon to end up grounded a few miles away on the coral reef near Camp Kinser.
The capeMay ship has been there since WWII.
Yes the ATLANTUS(yeah with a “U”) is still there.
I grew up in WILDWOOD ,N.J. which is just up the coast from CAPE MAY. I remember when my parents first took me to see the “CONCRETE SHIP”. I must have been about 4 or 5 years old and that would be 1954 -'55. I always thought of swimming or boating to it so that I could explore the wreck. It was so close to the shore line it seemed like it would be easy. Yeah, just a kid having a good fantasy. The tide would have got me if not the wreck itself.
Anyway, I’ve included some shots of the original ship along with some as it detriorated to it’s present state. There’s one from a post card that shows what it looked like when I was first intoduced to it.
I haven’t seen it since 1995 when I was traveling back to WILDWOOD on the CAPE MAY/LEWES DELAWARE FERRY after having moved my mother to her new home in Del.
I hope these pics get through. Enjoy!
O/T but it would make an interesting scratchbuild, maybe a diorama…
I guess it was a bad idea. Here’s ours at Capitola Beach, California. The SS Palo Alto.
From what I remember my dad telling me about those concrete ships, there was a few of them (don’t hold me to it but I think it was 8) They weren’t very practical though( being they were concrete. Maybe the guys in the ship forum would know more. There isn’t much left of the one in Cape May. There is also a old gun battery there too.
Chris
I’m gonna go ask 'em.
Here’s something that’s O/T(ON TOPIC). I’ve included a link to an aircraft related museum in CAPE MAY. I do remember ,when I was very young ,seeing a V-1 “BUZZ BOMB” sitting outiside a hangar. I know that several were brought back to the states for testing and research and that we produced some of our own. I don’t know whether this was an original or a U.S. made V-1. I remember it was painted yellow. I wonder what happened to it.
Not sure about the V-1, I don’t recall seeing one when I was there a year or so ago. They do have a rather large V-2 replica, though.
For Medic81, and sorry to be off topic, so I’ll stop here. EdGrune in the Ships Forum; very civil group by the way, passed on this lnk:
I don’t know if it’s still there but whenI was in Delaware there used to be a recreation area used by the military that used to be a coastal defense site. It had a runway, at least one large gun bunker, outposts, and watch towers. I believe it was not too far south from Dover.