Now that is totally awesome… Just to think in a well populated area, nobody really knew of her exsistance…
Thank you for sharing my friend…
Flaps up,
Mike
Wow, thats neat. Too bad it wasn’t in freshwater…
That is truly amazing.
Roy
Great news. I just hope that some aircraft museum or other preservation group can work their miracles before the looters and vandals get to her.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
What an amazing discovery! I truly hope they can remove it and possibly restore it before looters get to it.
Yeah, an incredible find!!! I do hope that the British Air Arm Museum does restore it. Or at least put it on display. I think it’s rightful place is there in England, and i hope they save it.
Kinda makes you want to invest in a metal detector. Doesn’t it?
This is a story worthy of Twilight Zone or Stephen King! I, too hope that the Air Ministry understands the significance of the aircraft and preserves it, or allows a recovery group like TIGHAR to do it! Letter writing campaign, anyone? [:-^] Perhaps we can get Viper has the Lead to spearhead it, since he is a local (British)…
Brian [C):-)]
Truly an amazing story. Not as dramatic as Glacier Girl, but still amazing. Hope it finds a place of honor in a museum somewhere.
Regards, Rick
looks like it just needs some fuel new oil and off we go
That’s a sensitive topic on the beach here in San Francisco. Why a freighter would put out to sea w/o radar boggles my teabag of a mind.
Kidding aside, I cannot imagine that there is anything left of an aluminum a/c soaked in salt water for 60 + years. Esp. in a tidal environment with a lot of oxygen. I’d imagine that its mostly like a fossil, a negative of the original.
Also, the reality seems to be that removal usually encounters nasty realities. After seeing the photos of Glacier Girl 200 feet down in her grave, it looked like a crushed can. And the Mid-Atlantic P-61 will be maybe 20%. This one looks pretty hopeless.
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I hope the P-38 can be safely recovered and restored so it can at least be displayed. It looks to be in better condition than Glacier Girl but who knows how much damage the salt water has caused. I saw parts of Glacier Girl at Oshkosh soon after it was recovered. I would have never believed it would fly again.
I hope they don’t pull a Glacier Girl on this one, and for this reason - this airplane has a known combat history in the ETO, and as such is the oldest, relatively intact, unaltered P-38F left in the world. It is a time capsule of a very significant moment in our history, and if it is restored a-la-Glacier Girl, all of that will be lost. Forever.
I am heartened that a reputable group like TIGHAR is already involved in this endeavor; they understand that history altered is history lost.