Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:57 pm
cooper9411 wrote:gary1954, we can talk about what type aircraft we want! So what if we get side tracked, a lot of topics on WIX get side tracked now and then!
Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:59 pm
PbyCat-Guy wrote:I have a ROV that I built for this purpose if someone wants to borrow it.
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Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:14 pm
gary1954 wrote:PbyCat-Guy wrote:I have a ROV that I built for this purpose if someone wants to borrow it.
Man that is quite an offer there and mighty darned nice of you
Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:45 pm
Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:30 pm
PbyCat-Guy wrote:gary1954 wrote:PbyCat-Guy wrote:I have a ROV that I built for this purpose if someone wants to borrow it.
Man that is quite an offer there and mighty darned nice of you
I used to live in New Jersey and heard about P-47 wrecks in some of the lakes, that's why I designed and built it, I'm kinda embarrassed that I did this sort of a thing. Soon I'll be acquiring a metal lathe and hope to build a better version I have designed.
Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:48 pm
RandolphB wrote:OK- I'll throw one out probably nobody has heard of...
My father was 17 during WW2, and worked at the Army Base in Orlando as a Soda Jerk durng it. This base later became the Naval Training Center. When I was about 15 or so, we were driving past one end of it and it slowed down and told me that during the war, there was a set of cables mounted over a certain small lake, and a B-17 was hung beneath it. He said air crews were taught how to ditch a plane by using it a a training device. He said the plane would be winched up to one end, crew loaded in and it was allowed to free fall into the lake and sink. Then it would be pulled back up and used for the next crew. He said he remembered going by to work one day when the set-up was being taken down; and the B-17 was just ditched in the lake and the cables and poles were taken down and removed.
Many years later I asked him about it, and he repeated the same details and wondered whatever happened to the plane. He passed a couple of years ago so I can't ask again. The lake would have been on the northeast corner of the base at the time.
PbyCat-Guy wrote:gary1954 wrote:PbyCat-Guy wrote:I have a ROV that I built for this purpose if someone wants to borrow it.
Man that is quite an offer there and mighty darned nice of you
I used to live in New Jersey and heard about P-47 wrecks in some of the lakes, that's why I designed and built it, I'm kinda embarrassed that I did this sort of a thing. Soon I'll be acquiring a metal lathe and hope to build a better version I have designed.
Sat Jan 19, 2013 12:48 am
PbyCat-Guy wrote:I have a ROV that I built for this purpose if someone wants to borrow it.
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tom d. friedman wrote:cooper9411 wrote:p51 you are correct. A lot of the aircraft are well documented and others are not. Here lately been hearing a rumor about a P-39 in northern Florida, around the Keystone Heights area (Crystal Lake)? I don't know if this is true or not I have not been there to check it out and I would think that someone would have taken pictures of it by now! The rumor also says the lake is surrounded by private property and the only way to get to the lake is with permission from a local.
Then theres the rumor of a B-17 that ditched in the eastern end of Lake Erie. It's possible as that is the deepest part of the lake. But once again, just rumors and until there is some type of proof I will be very skeptical.
i'm a life time buckeye as you are coop!! i'm on the lake just east of sandusky & i've never heard that rumor on the 17!! & i know some real authority / pro lake erie wreck divers & they've never mentioned a fort, but they have mentioned some other wrecks that are documented & some that are speculated. how far east are you talking?? the further east you go the deeper the lake gets.
Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:36 pm