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Posted by Cees Broere on Fri Mar 07, 2003 06:42:31 AM

In reply top Flypast Baltimore post... posted by Chris Martin on Thu Mar 06, 2003 07:38:32 PM

Chris,

I totally and utterly agree with you. This is one of the most extinct and unsung types in history. If a team could go to the Sahara to search for a Hermes, then there must also be a team interested in searching for a Baltimore!!???

Is there any organisation we can interest?

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When on approach to the east runway at Waw El Kebir I spotted this wreck to the north of the runway. What drew my attention to it was the fact that it was rather narrow and I could not associate it with anything (semi) modern I knew. When we had taxied to the apron (on the south side of the runway), the wreck was directly across the runway from us about 500 meters away. It had a strange look to it, a kind of "pregnant" belly look, that is the fuselage looked to high for it?s width. Like I said in my earlier post I could not go and have a look at it without running the risk of being blown to pieces. (OK.....I do a lot for this hobby, BUT..... ). I have to admitt, at first I had no idea what it was, but slowly the Baltimore idea gatered momentum and in the morning when we left I was sure. It could only be a Baltimore.

To reply to your questions....No I don?t think this would have been stripped years ago. This place is in the middle of f***ing no-where. The nearest people is some 200km away (or so we were told) and this being a hotspot in the Lybian wars on Niger and Sudan for years and years, I don?t think many people have been there after motorized transportation came into being in this part of the world. Nomads on camels in earlier days could not do a lot of damage to a structure like this.

About this being a rusted skeleton, well it might be, but it is in the middle of the desert. Now-a-days they fly airliners into the desert to to keep them free of corrotion To be exact this place is about 630 km inland from the Mediterranean coast.

The most important town nearby is Sabha. (Remember the story of the Queen of Sabha??? ). To give a more precise location Waw El Kebir is on a bearing of approx 135? TRUE and 260 km from Sabha.

Hope this help. If it ain?t a Baltimore, well......YOU CAN CALL ME MEYER To qoute an (in)famous figure

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Cees

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