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Re: Ju188

Posted by Dave on Fri Jan 25, 2002 08:55:03 PM

In reply top Re: Ju188 posted by Tom on Fri Jan 25, 2002 07:52:48 PM

: Poland will , I think , be a good source of airframes in t
: he future ...
:
: ... as will the Ukraine once the politics and 'other' prob
: lems are sorted out, man there's 109's still on Ukrainian
: AF bases, just sitting in the grass slowly deteriorating.
: The boss was telling me of a German fellow who has some go
: od contacts in the aforementioned eastern state and has se
: en a load of ex-Luftwaffe a/c still on their undercarraige
: as the Germans left them 50 odd years ago. Then there's t
: he one of a former East German airfield with a load of WWI
: I Luft aircraft out in the woods rotting away on the edge
: of the airfield, if I remember rightly isn't this how some
: of the Wanaka poli's were found, just pushed into the woo
: ds and forgotten about until recently?

Tom

I have heard these stories as well .....but I seriously doubt it ... don't forget the former East Germany is now Germany proper and I am sure any available airframes 'in the woods' would have been appropriated by the national museums long ago ..... they haven't !
Ukraine .... possibly in the military restricted areas , I have a few good contacts in Russia , and have run this sort of thing past them before .. they tell me they wouldn't be spending hours of fruitless searching , paying up to $1200 per hour for heavy lift helos , in the frozen wastes ,if they had access to aircraft sitting on airfields ! The mountains of the Urals are also supposed to have a secret hangar or two , pictures of intact German aircraft being seen in recent times by someone who knows someone etc...we live in hope I guess ;-0
The AFC Polis were all recovered from remote crash sites .. not at the edges of airfields . The Monino B-25 and A-20 were though [ Eastern Russia ] !

regards

Dave

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