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Re: All these salt water wrecks....
Posted by Tom on Wed Jan 01, 2003 07:52:08 PM
In reply top All these salt water wrecks.... posted by Paul McMillan on Mon Dec 30, 2002 10:42:20 AM
I think there are a few 'doom mongers' out there who regard sea recoveries as the last resort but for some types these examples are the last resort (BR20) and going by the technology and know how nowadays you could restore these airframes given the funding, the 109 that Craig Charleston is completing for Mr Allen is nearly a full rebuild with little remaining from the original airframe as it had nearly all rotted away and there are others. I would love to see more brought up and treated the right way and not just raised and left to rot like some have have done to them, you need a barge with a sealable treatment tank so when it is raised it can go straight in and suffer as little from exposure as possible. Blimey, I'm rambling now, better get some kip I think.
Tom ;)