CNN: Remains of Planes called 'miracles'

[ACarey]

Interesting little photo gallery including WWII aircraft

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/02/living/gallery/airplane-crashes/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

[SaxMan]

I wonder if there is ever going to come a time when it will be historically desirable (or economically feasible) to recover those various wrecks.

[JohnH]

Great pics! Thanks.

[N77657]

I wonder if there is ever going to come a time when it will be historically desirable (or economically feasible) to recover those various wrecks.

My guess is that there will come a time when almost any WWII airplane will be desirable for recovery. Look at what lenghts the WWI era folks go to for information, let alone actual parts, to replicate their aircraft. Someday, even having drawings of parts with become valuable information.

[groundpounder]

That B-24D looks like another Swamp Ghost waiting to happen. Anybody know the story on this one ??

[muddyboots]

Surely that Shackleton is worth recovering...

[JohnB]

Surely that Shackleton is worth recovering...

It's quite well known in the UK aviation community...in fact there is a book on it. If it could be easily/cheaply recovered, it would have been. The fact that the CAA won't let them them fly in the UK seriously lessens their value (That's why there is one at Pima). At any rate, there are two better examples on an island in the med...and no one has bought them yet.

[Flying Pencil]

great looking book! Thanks for heads up! (pulls out CC)

[Chris Brame]

That B-24D looks like another Swamp Ghost waiting to happen. Anybody know the story on this one ??

Searched through the B-24Ds on pacificwrecks.com and found it's 42-40885; info here:
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b ... 40885.html

[Cherrybomber13]

I had understood that the B-24 burned up in a grass fire a few years back.

[tom d. friedman]

i remember fishing on lake in Canada called kagianagami 200 miles south of james bay where a 50's era dehavilland otter went down in the lake & you could see it 20 feet or more down in yellow, sitting on it's pontoons. there were fatalities in the crash, I recall how creepy it looked.

[CoastieJohn]

In 2008 when I was in Iceland working on the Greenland Duck Hunt, there was a pretty gal at the Hilton who told me a story about a B-"something" that crashed landed during WWII. It was on her grandfather's farm and her and the local kids played on/in it years ago. She said the hull was still there at the farm. Kinda wished I had asked more questions.