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March 2009 Flypast reports Libya has commissioned London based architects to design a 'Museum of Conflict' for Tripoli.

Will this be the final resting place for one of my favourite aeroplanes?





Further details here:-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/ ... re-museums

PeterA

LBG should be brought back to the states!

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Yes, she needs to come home.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

same opinion here too

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

But should she be restored?

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I say no. Just display it as it is today. It would be a fitting memorial to her crew that way and a reminder to future genarations of the sacrifices made.

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Ditto. I 2nd that!

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LBG is resting in the Libyan countryside, where it remains as that was where it crashed.

Whats so hard to accept? When a plane crashes on a war mission in a hostile country - you have to accept that is a loss and you aint going to get it back.

How come no one has wanted to do the same to all the crashed jets from the Korean or Vietnam War - arent they worth saving too?

How many Mig killing planes were shot down and require saving?.. i suspect a few.

Actually if you look at the second photo PeterA posted above. LBG was recovered by the Libyans and is in downtown Tripoli (IIRC) as in the photo.

When they recovered it they cut it apart into pieces that don't really represnt an airplane.

I wouldn't be up for restoring it to "flyable" shape, but it should be restored to look like it did when it landed itself in the desert all those years ago.

Mark H

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Can any diplomatic, or other efforts be made on the Libian governtment to allow her to come home? Any one want to get a petition going for our government to give to Libya?
-J

here is LBG now
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=32.0852789&lo ... 0be%20good

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I say leave her there .

I'd like to see it recovered and at least displayed in a manner that can honor the brave crews that fought to keep the world free.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Lest we Forget the crew of the Lady Be Good

514th Squadron
376th Bomb Group
9th Air Force

1st Lieutenant William J. Hatton, Pilot
Whitestone, New York

2d Lieutenant Robert F. Toner, Copilot
North Attelboro, Massachusetts

2d Lieutenant Dp Hays, Navigator
Lee's Summit Missouri

2d Lieutenant John S. Woravka, Bombardier
Cleveland, Ohio

Technical Sergeant Harold J. Ripslinger, Flight Engineer
Saginaw, Michigan

Technical Sergeant Robert E. LaMotte, Radio Operator
Lake Linden, Michigan

Staff Sergeant Guy E. Shelley, Gunner/Asst Flight Engineer
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania

Staff Sergeant Vernon L. Moore, Gunner/Asst Radio Operator
New Boston, Ohio

Staff Sergeant Samuel R. Adams, Gunner
Eureka, Illinois

Well, it's been recovered, to Tripoli, and the Lybians are looking to build a museum which (hopefully) would see her on display. (P51Mstg - the big problem is missing stuff looted, more than the deconstruction of the pieces. It wouldn't be hard to roughly lay out what's there as discovered as an interim to a restoration/conservation 'as found'.)

While there may be more opportunity to return it to a representation of the crash site in the USA (including the bits previously 'lifted') IMHO, it would be more politic and a better diplomatic move for US financial support to re-create the crash site in the new museum. Making friends overseas, rather than trying to keep all the toys in one's own toybox.

Not all British aircraft 'belong' in Britain, or US aircraft in the USA. Many of those overseas give great pleasure, act as memorials and generate revenue elsewhere - that's all good.

There's no justification IMHO to building a new B-24 with the LBG dataplate and some parts - the aircraft's history, which is important as social history particularly, is of the crash and the crew's loss.

It would be a memorial to inadequate navigation training and experience as much as fighting for freedom.

Regards,

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