Sun Dec 21, 2008 1:23 am
he he he...My point was I'm not sure why people keep complaining when they can quite easily sign up and look at them...
I was one of those people for a long time--wary of having yet more junk mail dumped in my inbox because I wante dto look at pictures of pretty airplanes from days gone bye...oh wit. That's WIX
I finally made myself a junk website email addy so I can sign up for whatever I want, and not worry about my real email getting body slammed by junkmail. Works just fine. I open it once a week and trash everything without looking at it, safe in the knowledge that it is always gonna be junk
I was one of those people for a long time--wary of having yet more junk mail dumped in my inbox because I wante dto look at pictures of pretty airplanes from days gone bye...oh wit. That's WIX
I finally made myself a junk website email addy so I can sign up for whatever I want, and not worry about my real email getting body slammed by junkmail. Works just fine. I open it once a week and trash everything without looking at it, safe in the knowledge that it is always gonna be junk
Sun Dec 21, 2008 6:14 am
The dramatic history of on Italian plane,lost in the Libyan desert 21st July 1960
http://www.speitaly.org/pages/past/Gobb ... SI2004.pdf
Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:32 am
That SM-79 is marked on Google Earth, with a photo (posted August '07), at 28 49' 10.58" N, 23 21' 48.04" E . Can't believe it hasn't been removed.
Sun Dec 21, 2008 12:23 pm
Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:09 am
Mark_Pilkington wrote:.
Tourist 4 wheel drive excusions have been putting aircraft wrecks on their trips, but not complete airframes sufficient to constitute a restoration?
These remains have been obviously known to the locals for many years and well stripped.
An anonomous wreck in the Namibia Desert.
A wreck in the Egyptian Desert.
http://confluence.org/eg/all/n29e027/pic8.jpg
The SAAF Blenheim found complete in the Lybian Desrt in 1959 was scrapped on the spot by locals
http://www.fjexpeditions.com/frameset/expeditions.htm
Obviously there is a the opportunity something substantial could still be out there, and eventually turn up, but the risk is locals will find it first and simply scrap it on site, as in the case of the Blenheim above or the many wrecks in PNG.
regards
Mark Pilkington
It seems the Blenheims were demolished and torched by the French Foreign Legion when found in the desert in 1959 and the crew remains were recovered, obviously the remains have then been stripped by tribes and souvenir/scrap recovery?
http://saharayro.free.fr/grb13.htm
http://saharayro.free.fr/grb14.htm
http://saharayro.free.fr/grb15.htm
http://saharayro.free.fr/grb17.htm
Two translated versions of the tragic story on the loss of the three aircraft in 1942
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Faviation-ancienne.forumactif.com%2Fle-front-mediterraneen-afrique-f70%2Ftragedie-sur-kufra-t4882.htm&sl=fr&tl=en&history_state0=
http://74.125.19.113/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://saharayro.free.fr/grb1.htm&usg=ALkJrhiuimBSlmW1biRx2Deu4mBV_L1JLg
regards
Mark Pilkington