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Re: Jim Pearce's warbird imports
Posted by Mikael Olrog on Sat Oct 11, 2003 02:06:19 AM
In reply top Re: Jim Pearce's warbird imports posted by Dave on Fri Oct 10, 2003 07:43:42 PM
I second Dave's comment from my own experience of participating in a recovery expedition in Norway. There are numerous joints, bolts and other finelly machined parts which are important for restoration. Sheet metal and straight pipes are just what they are and can be replaced quite easily. The other parts can not - at least not economically. In an impact the joints, bolts etc have a possibility of surviving intact since they are usually thicker in their connstruction than the rest.
So bring back the scrap, seperate the usufull parts from the destroyed stuff. But obviously somewhere here starts the discussion wheather or not the identity of the recovered aircraft actually can be passed on to the reconstructed aircraft... :-)
/Mikael
: Cees
:
: The thing is that among the pile of 'scrap ' are some very
: good parts . I visited Chris Vanhee and his Ju88 project
: , and he had just received a container of similar metal ..
: he said 90% of it would be absolutely useless , but the r
: est were parts that were needed to allow him to continue w
: ith his restoration ....it seems you must buy the whole pa
: ckage , in order to get the specific goodies that are need
: ed.
: Also ,in the near future any complete wrecks are going t
: o have to be sourced from underwater , or bogs ...the surf
: ace wrecks being prity much picked over or so innacessable
: the recovery costs are more than the airframe is worth to
: them .From what I hear the established search groups are
: concentrating more in this direction , but there are a few
: problems with some of the larger lakes , like Lk.Illmen ,
: Pskov etc , having silty bottoms and a lot of rubbish in
: them , which confuses the hell out of radar equipment.
:
: Dave