WW2 Plane Found!

57mm?

105mm on the AC-130 is where it's at.

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Great post Coyote ! I love these kind of story. When i was looking at the plane, i knew i saw her somewhere before and there is the link.

It's the Recovering team from England they talk about in the little clip.

www.warbirdfinders.co.uk

www.warbirdfinders.co.uk

I hope some will like the link, there is many other old ww2 plane recovered in there.

I also include some crazy photo of a Me-109 pilot that was found in amazing condition when is plane was recovered a few years ago somewhere in the baltic state. I will try to put the link of the full article but i recall he was a fighter ace with over 50 victory's and was shot down late in the war.
Sorry for my bad english, i hope somebody will enjoy it.

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I'm hoping they gave that ME109 pilot a proper military burial. Technically, his aircraft was a war grave.

His state of preservation reminds me of the "bog people" from the iron age discovered over the years throughout northern Europe.
 
Yes... we can only hope that their national GR people were contacted immediately... these men deserve all the respect in the world, regardless of whose side they fought on.

Hope Bolt Action can find the link... would be good to see a proper ending to both of these stories.

An uncle of mine and another Sabre pilot both went down into the North Sea way back when... thankfully, the RN did recover both bodies, but it apparently took a long time to get out to them. Strange to think of all this now. Crazy world, man.
 
here is the link

Haa, my brain is getting older i think. The pilot was a Russian pilot who was shot BY a German Ace flying a Me-109.:(
My mistake. I read all this a while ago and i swap the role. Here is the link for the full article. Hope you enjoy it.

http://warrelics.eu/forum/armour-wea...rn-russia-514/
 
Many years ago a old retired AF corporal told me that during WWII a bomber with a load of Krugerrands vanished on a flight to Vancouver somewhere over BC. Probably into a lake but wouldn't that be a find.
 
buffdog said:
These aircraft were flown to Edmonton, where they were inspected and additional things like radios installed, then insignia painted on, and sent northward to Alaska and Russia.

I am sure if SMELLIE sees this post, he can contribute a lot more information, as his Father was in charge of the repair and overhaul shop in Edmonton where this work was done.
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My dad was involved with these aircraft. He was in the RCAF stationed in Alaska. They were a fueling waypoint for these aircraft on their way to Russia.

They had a mid engine mounted behind the pilot and a driveshaft passed under the cockpit via a couple of u-joints to the prop.

Once the engine was fired up the airplane had to take off fairly quickly or it would overheat and seize up. It needed airflow to cool it. A number of them crashed shortly after takeoff until the problem was figured out.
 
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The reason soon became apparent; for some unknown reason, the pilot had not exited the P39 and his remains were located in the cockpit. Missing for 60 years, the pilot was buried on 6 October 2004 with full military honours at the Glory Valley Memorial, near the Litza Valley, NW of Murmansk.
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762shooter said:
My dad was involved with these aircraft. He was in the RCAF stationed in Alaska. They were a fueling waypoint for these aircraft on their way to Russia.

They had a mid engine mounted behind the pilot and a driveshaft passed under the cockpit via a couple of u-joints to the prop.

Once the engine was fired up the airplane had to take off fairly quickly or it would overheat and seize up. It needed airflow to cool it. A number of them crashed shortly after takeoff until the problem was figured out.
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My dad was the medic at Annette island, one of the few places where Canadians protected US soil.
 
I remember a National Geographic series on a B29 bomber that was lost, found then recovered intact. They restored it on the site it was found with the intention of flying it out. On takeoff the APU (electrical power unit)caught fire and the crew escaped but burned the plane to the ground. :(
 
Years ago (~20 or so) a guy showed up at my shop with a 50 cal machine gun he recovered from a wreck somewhere. I never asked where or how he came across it. It was rusted pretty bad though and the barrel had a 90 degree bend in it. I sandblasted and cleaned it up somewhat so he could paint it and he was going to "re-barrel" it with a length of pipe and basically make a conversation piece for the rec-room.

That show about the B29 resto was troubling to me a bit. Mainly because I tried to realize how truly PO'd I'd be if it were my project - seeing that thing burn after so much work and effort went into it would be pretty near unbearable for me. Too bad they didn't get it in the air.....
 
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I believe the Russians also had access to Hurricane fighters.
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yes, there was a regular ferry route between england and archangel, russia- that was how the russians got several hurricanes and the way the raf "got rid of " their p-39s - by this time, the russians were so desperate for anything that would fly-
 
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