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Re: Interesting.....
Posted by Richard Allnutt on Thu Nov 07, 2002 11:43:30 AM
In reply top Interesting..... posted by Cees Broere on Thu Nov 07, 2002 07:50:48 AM
You made an interesting point Cees, with respect to My Gal Sal. Interestingly, in My Gal Sal's case, the ice around her actually receded by about thirty feet, so that she actually sat on a column of ice about 30 or 40 feet higher than her surroundings.... this is actually what led her to be so badly damaged, as a gale flipped her off this perch at some point. She had been relatively unscathed up until the sixties I believe! Maybe all of the ice around My Gal Sal sublimed into the atmosphere, making it damp... was blown down-wind and dumped all over Glacier Gal and her compadres! Makes you wonder, doesn't it!?
Cheers,
Richard
:
: ....but isn't it strange then that the B-17E "My Gal Sal"
: ,also recovered from Greenland during the mid eighties, wa
: s still lying on top of the ice as opposed as to the Lost
: Squadron which had 260 feet of ice on top of it..
:
: Anyway, the bottom line is that with the rising prices of
: these warbirds there will be a day that recovering the oth
: er five P-38's and perhaps the B-17's (for spares) will be
: economical. Personally I cannot wait. These stories are w
: hat we are dreaming about.
:
: Christer,
:
: No Swedish Spitfire XIX's (or other aircraft for that matt
: er) lying onder metres of snow somewhere?
:
: Cees
: