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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.jpgThe SAAF Blenheim found complete in the Lybian Desrt in 1959 was scrapped on the spot by locals
http://www.fjexpeditions.com/frameset/expeditions.htmObviously 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?
Two translated versions of the tragic story on the loss of the three aircraft in 1942
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