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bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

Oh Dave, I can't handle the suspense much longer!

shrike · **Posted:** Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:30 pm

From the collector ring, howabout either a PZL P.24, or IAR 80/81?

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:36 am

bdk wrote:

Oh Dave, I can't handle the suspense much longer!

OK, OK.....and the winner is.............(drum roll...)

Randy Wilson......c'mon down. :supz:

Honourable mention to Ben G and BDK for correct engine type.

The engine was recently recovered from a swamp in Sth Russia.....

Randy- PM me your postal address

Dave

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

Which, of course, begs the question, Dave, of what happened to the rest of it? Was there enough recovered to bring another extinct type back to life?

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:03 am

Sticking with the Hs129, most will know that no complete example is currently on display. The cockpit section of the aircraft evaluated at Wright Field is currently in the care of Martin Mednis in Sydney. I visited in 1999. Martin was just beginning to fit out the cockpit.

There is supposed to be an intact example in a now dry reservoir in Tunisia (ditching is documented). Tentative investigations have been underway for some years, with little progress AFAIK.

Sadly a wreck was discovered and scrapped in Russia back in the mid-late 1990's as those who found it didn't realise what they had......

Dave

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 3:07 am

Mike wrote:

Which, of course, begs the question, Dave, of what happened to the rest of it? Was there enough recovered to bring another extinct type back to life?

Mike

The group that recovered it suggest that there is more of the aircraft there, the armoured cockpit section is sure to have survived (ala IL-2). So fingers crossed that a substantial amount remains......a 'cool' aircraft, if not too attractive.

Dave

Randy Wilson · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:22 am

Hi Dave - PM sent. Thanks for the challenge on this one. It would be great if one of these rare aircraft could be recovered.

Randy

DaveM2 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:27 pm

Randy

Tough to put one over on a knowledgeable WIX crowd :wink:

PM received

Dave

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