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Re: Is there a place for aviation archeology on this forum???

Posted by Elliott on Wed Nov 14, 2001 08:30:43 AM

In reply top Is there a place for aviation archeology on this forum????&# posted by Cees Broere on Wed Nov 14, 2001 06:41:46 AM

Hi Cees

I am interested in any aviation related recovery, be it a whole airframe (which is always very exciting) or historically important, representative parts. I think its fine.

I have to say, while I am on my seldon used soapbox, I think the business of basing an aircrafts' ID around a bunch of battered ID plates tacked onto an essentially brand new airframe is frankly, sad. The ID plates existed beacuse of the original airframe, not the other way around. I would love it if the board could stick up a collective pair of fingers at those individuals who sell dataplates for ridiculous sums whilst binning 'unusable' parts.

Greedy ******* *******s!




:
: The topic about what aircraft we would like to recover got
: me thinking. Most of the thread concerns substantial wrec
: ks being hopefully worthy of restoration, and almost nothi
: ng about recovering wrecks from the ground.
:
: What is the general idea of this forum, is it
: just talking, and looking for substantial wrecks and encou
: raging each other to have them recovered, or is it about w
: arbirds in general including aviation archeology?
: Because that is what we're doing mostly in Holland. Lookin
: g for substantial wrecks is also what we are very interest
: ed in (in fact I have this dream to recover a complete air
: craft someday and the chance to do so is getting closer an
: d closer) but over here we mostly encounter the remains of
: these great aircraft which have hit mother earth at high
: speed, instead of gently ditching on a calm smooth watery
: surface, just waiting to be lifted.
:
: Is there an interest on this board about complete aircraft
: in 10.000 pieces, or should I just continue about underwa
: terwrecks etc.?
:
: Just curious as ever
:
: Cees

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