Warbird Information Exchange

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Fighters pilots are born to make movies , bomber pilots make HISTORY, cargo crews haul their material and fame.

Classicaircraft turn up in the strangest places and the oddest times. i hope they save it somehow.

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Charles Neely

WOW!!!

wonder if it'l be restored as a flyer lol

I wanna see a picture of it.

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.

Will it be at Legends?




(well, someone had to say it...)

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Those who can set that knowledge into motion in the physical world are rarer still.

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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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Semper Fortis

Maybe they will do some urban improvements at the same time, maybe detonate it inside that stupid bloody tent thing...

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Those who possess real knowledge are rare.

Those who can set that knowledge into motion in the physical world are rarer still.

The few who possess real knowledge and can set it into motion of their own hands are the rarest of all.

barely the tip of the iceberg. their is countless unexploded duds lying in britain & all over europe.

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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!!

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.

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

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Fighters pilots are born to make movies , bomber pilots make HISTORY, cargo crews haul their material and fame.

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.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

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

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......