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44 days from start to finish. Wow what a mission. I remember when those pictures of the recovery first surfaced on the internet. I couldn't believe it.

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Christopher Soltis
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It would have been so easy to abandon her there, what a great team, fantastic,

thanks for posting

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Martin
Wide open & turning left.

Nice to see that they were so dedicated to recovering their plane. That had to have been a pricey operation, I'd have thought it would've been easier to just source another Gooney Bird. Edit, well after looking at the Basler conversions, they certainly are worth quite a bit, I guess that made the recovery cost effective.

Amazing work by the recovery team.

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Wow ... what can ya say?



To those guys:

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Cheers,
Kurt Maurer
League City, Texas

PIC, Ford 6600 pulling Rhino batwing up and down the runway

Although it would have been less expensive to leave the wreck where it was, that's not an option. The Antarctic is a fragile landscape and this isn't the first airframe to be recovered. A few years ago a DHC-3 Otter which had been crashed in 1961 was brouught back to the United Kingdom, not because it was financially viable, but leaving it there was against the terms of the Antarctic Treaty.

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/living_and_ ... 3_2004/27/