V1 flying bomb found in UK breaking story
Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:02 am
Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:37 am
Classicaircraft turn up in the strangest places and the oddest times. i hope they save it somehow.
Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:35 am
WOW!!!
Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:30 pm
wonder if it'l be restored as a flyer 
lol
lol
Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:26 pm
I wanna see a picture of it.
Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:55 pm
It really is amazing how much of that stuff is still around. Years ago when I was at Lakenheath, the found a 1,000 lb bomb while constructing the new gate shack at the Brandon Road gate. Fortunately, they got it out, defused it and blew it up at Feltwell.
Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:35 pm
Will it be at Legends? 
(well, someone had to say it...)
(well, someone had to say it...)
Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:39 pm
visaliaaviation wrote:Classicaircraft turn up in the strangest places and the oddest times. i hope they save it somehow.
More than likely not.
It probalbly barely resembles a V-1 after impact and subsiquint burrying at this point.
The safest thing to do would be to detonate it rather than try to defuse it.
Shay
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Sat Jul 28, 2007 4:55 pm
Shay wrote:The safest thing to do would be to detonate it rather than try to defuse it.
Shay
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Semper Fortis
Maybe they will do some urban improvements at the same time, maybe detonate it inside that stupid bloody tent thing...
Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:37 pm
barely the tip of the iceberg. their is countless unexploded duds lying in britain & all over europe.
Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:59 pm
French farmers stack em up at the edge of their fields. French EOD guys come by and pick them up like garbage. Lot of it is WWI, really unstable and some are gas shells.
Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:28 pm
I went to france last yr and saw much unexploded shells and weapons in fields. I remeber 2 events at Verdun we found a shell buried in forest and was sprayed orange but someone turned it over so you didnt see it... and another field i was walking thru i was 1.5m from stepping on a hand grenade fully intact.. so i came away from my trip to france and turkey ALOT more aware of UOD
Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:37 am
Sat on a mortar shell on the side of a mountain in Korea once. Talk about pucker factor ten 
Folks still get injured by land mines over tehre--they go out picking mushrooms and stumble over a 50 year old relic with teeth.
Folks still get injured by land mines over tehre--they go out picking mushrooms and stumble over a 50 year old relic with teeth.
Sun Jul 29, 2007 4:36 am
I visited Peleliu on a diving holiday. Whilst waiting for the surface interval to lapse between dives we visited many areas on the island, guns, tanks, wrecked zeros and the cemeteries. Everywhere was the evidence of ordinance, walking through the jungle you would see tails of mortar rounds just sticking out of the floor covering. Our guide showed us a few but he warned us not to pick up any at random as he said that people still got injured tending to their crops when they triggered buried shells accidentaly.
Wardie
Wardie
Sun Jul 29, 2007 5:53 am
Shay wrote:The safest thing to do would be to detonate it rather than try to defuse it.
Royal Engineer EOD always defuse on site, remove to safe location (usually MOD ordnance ranges) then destroy.
You can't go detonating 1000lb ordnance on site in the middle of London....makes the natives a bit nervous......