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Re: Shangri-la
Posted by BioSuit Tony on Sun Oct 21, 2001 07:50:42 PM
In reply top Re: Shangri-la posted by Lynn Ritger on Sun Oct 21, 2001 07:15:49 PM
......and that may well place the hulk, within the camp boundaries of Carver Barracks.... Oh well, if only someone had MOD credentials......
Hang on........I do -lol
So, it looks like any recoverer can get bilharzia into the bargain. So u suggest looking in the most fertile area of the base then Lynn?
So, it's not in the pond, its in the waste area, which puts it under control of the DoE boys, I think
On the phone tomorrow, let's see if anything's there.
Tony
: A friend of mine, aviation artist Wade Meyers, has done an
: extremely thorough investigation of VF-T's history as wel
: l as other aircraft flown by Don Gentile, and interviews w
: ith line chiefs and other notable 4th personnel at the reu
: nion a couple of weeks ago at Savannah, GA determined that
: the airframe was stripped of all usable items (Don wound
: up with several of the instruments from the bird, somehow,
: and these are now with the USAFM) and the stripped hulk w
: as evidently dumped in a ravine somewhere around the perim
: ter of the field. Before you get excited about this, that
: area was later used for training for police dogs, and the
: resultant excrement from the dogs was dumped in the aform
: entioned ravine as well... yeeechhh! No one seems to have
: found anything to this point, but if you don't mind rooti
: ng around in 30 year old dog poo, then perhaps that pot'o'
: gold is there after all...
:
: Also, it wasn't that he got carried away during the flypas
: t, he just misjudged it...granted, he shouldn't have done
: it in any case, but he made only one pass, and that ended
: at the slight rise in the middle of the field which he did
: not adequately compensate for. Whoops.
:
: Interestingly, according to Wade's research into Gentile's
: flight log (of which he graciously forwarded me a copy),
: he only flew VF-T about 16 times total...she seemed to be
: downed for maintenance fairly frequently, and he got most
: of his kills in VF-N (if memory serves correctly, I'll che
: ck later tonight or tomorrow). Fascinating stuff.
:
: Lynn
:
:
: : Does anybody know if there has been a search for Gentile
: 's
: : P51B Shangri-la which he managed to crash whilst gettin
: g
: : rather carried away doing a low level beat up for the pr
: es
: : s at Debden. It was meant to have been bulldozed into a
: fa
: : rmers pond after the prang. Should I dust off the metal
: de
: : tector?