So it seems that Wendy Coble is the person who........

[k5083]

This will help clear up the deal between the B-25C & the PBJ. Check it out www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-6g.htm Hope this helps.
Robbie

Oh, man, this is great.

As I read that article I could not help but think that if Christopher Guest ("This Is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman", "Best In Show", "A Mighty Wind") made a mockumentary comedy film about aircraft wreck investigation, this would be the perfect script for it. Catherine O'Hara could play Wendy.

August

[AirJimL2]

I could not help but think that if Christopher Guest ("This Is Spinal Tap", "Waiting for Guffman", "Best In Show", "A Mighty Wind") made a mockumentary comedy film about aircraft wreck investigation, this would be the perfect script for it. Catherine O'Hara could play Wendy.

August,

Thanks for giving me a big laugh this AM! I needed it. Just thinking about Guest, his usual cast, and some of the potential scenes from the movie and I can't help but snicker.



Jim

[k5083]

Yeah Jim, can't you just see Fred Willard as the stuffed shirt Navy brass ... Eugene Levy, Jennifer Coolidge, and Larry Miller as the meddling xenophobic locals ... Guest and David Cross as the amateur salvors ... and in the end they don't even have convincing evidence that they ever found the wreck. I can barely resist emailing the link to Guest, I'm sure he'd instantly see the possibilities.

August

[TimAPNY]

I think the flash back scene of the wreckage search being carried out with dynamite might take the show! I can just picture a row board with some E-1 and an O-4 tossing them over the side and the camera pans out and they are surrounded by thousands of dead floating fish.


On a side note, a PBJ and being an “H” model seems like something worth recovering. But I get the idea that the crew don't mean squat to them. The a/c could not be easily recovered and restored so they did not even try to recover the crew? That makes my blood boil a bit. All missing crews should be recovered and given a proper burial (IMO).

Maybe they need to try and find Neisse or Champ next!

Note to self, “must no rant, must not rant”

Tim

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[lmritger]

"Mah name's Commandah Hahlan Peppah, and ah'm heah to talk to y'all about the PBJ Mitchell. The Mitchell's a noble breed... sometimes, I heah'em talkin' to me..." Yep, that would be a riot.

Sounds to me like this woman is full of more crap than a Christmas turkey.

Lynn

[Dan K]

Hee hee...might I suggest Ms. O'Hara including some voice-overs from Ms. Coble's actual dynamic narrative:

Coble quickly saw the potential assistance her career choice could bring to the town of Badin...

This is precious. I haven't seen this much talent at self-promotion since L. Ron Hubbard.

[airnutz]

On a side note, a PBJ and being an “H” model seems like something worth recovering. But I get the idea that the crew don't mean squat to them.
Tim

Did you miss that in the article Tim? She doesn't do the "icky" stuff anymore.

I did do forensic anthropology as an undergrad, and I love the science, but I got too close to my work and started thinking of the remains as a person. It depressed me so much I can’t do it anymore. Now I work with artifacts, not people.

I like the part where she reveals that she's some kind of "artifact empath"
...a "warbird whisperer", if you will....

When you dive under something in zero visibility, you may not see it, but you know it’s there. You can hear it. It’s like a sixth sense.

I say, let's test that claim. Let's hook 'er up with a double-bandolier of
weight belts to get 'er beyond neutral buoyancy and tow 'er like a sidescan.
"Just light-off a stick of TNT when you think we're near target honey"

As to the line-up for the movie...too bad Chris Farley's dead...he'd a made
the part for Wendy in my book.

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[F3A-1]

I have a LOT to say about this, but I shall hold my thoughts to myself for now. Maybe a book would be in order?

"PIRATE"
Lex

[bdk]

And I thought I had too much time on my hands... You guys are too much- really!

[airnutz]

I have a LOT to say about this, but I shall hold my thoughts to myself for now. Maybe a book would be in order?

"PIRATE"
Lex

THAT would be an interesting read and good basis for the second movie,
NHC-Camp Runamuck-Part Deux


OK Col..your off the hook for the Lead Defense Lawyer..

[Jim MacDonald]

If you guys thought the article at the beginning of this thread was good, you should read this one.

http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/24-01/24-01-10.pdf

The most interesting part is on page two. In the last two or three paragraphs she talks about how aluminum emersed in salt water reachs a state of stasis & is able to survive intact for perhaps hundreds of years.

After reading the article, I'm beginning to wonder if she is getting a bum rap. Obviously, she is well versed & knowledgable in archeology & apparently, in metallurgy as well.

Mac