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Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:17 am
In keeping with the NIB aircraft started earlier with the BF-109. What ever happened to the supposed site found off of the coast of Oz that contained still crated Mustangs that were supposed to be in amazing shape ? More pie in the sky ?
Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:55 am
Rick
It all has to do with definitions
hundreds of aircraft were dumped - no dispute - photos exist and Avengers and corsairs have been dredged up from various sites - corrosion varies between bad and fairly good.
However the sites are scattered and you are talking huge areas and great depths - high costs etc
Most of the aircraft were dumped off the rear of carriers making speed so you would need to do a lot of expensive surveys to find these machines
All doable but who is going to do it and who is going to pay.
Regards
John P
Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:50 am
John, the aircraft story that I'm talking about were the ones found in crates and supposedly the RAN was guarding this particular site until a determination in the courts was made. It was another story that sounded too good to be true.
Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:56 pm
What happened to the Avengers and Corsairs that were dredged up?
Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:21 am
This link should take you to a good site with some images of several units recovered so far from a number of loactions off the Australian East Coast
http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ozatwar/dumped@sea.htm
cheers
Digger
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