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Re: "Warbird Aircraft Recovery" Queensland??
Posted by Rob S on Wed Apr 10, 2002 09:45:49 PM
In reply top Re: "Warbird Aircraft Recovery" Queensland?? posted by Rob Mears on Tue Apr 09, 2002 05:03:10 PM
: From what I understand, the whole endeavour has primarily
: come to nothing due to the fact that there is no real mone
: y behind the project. No one is interested in financing t
: he drawn out recovery of plane parts that are not usable f
: or anything other than crude static display - if that. I'
: d LOVE to see a large storage area brimming with the recov
: ered RNFAA aircraft, if only so they could be identified a
: nd documented for what they are. Unfortunately that kind
: of mass recovery would take many hundreds of thousands of
: dollars, and the investor would have little hope of recove
: ring such an investment from selling the corroded hulks of
: these planes.
:
: A number of the bits that have been recovered so far have
: made it to the United States in hopes of using them as the
: basis for restoration projects. Ultimately they have bec
: ome little more than hangar fodder because massive intergr
: anular corrosion has rendered them useless for anything ot
: her than to serve as patterns for new-build parts.
:
: Now if someone could positively identify the location of t
: hose crated, cosmoline-coated airframes we'd be in for a s
: how! I believe it is a fact that these planes were actual
: ly dumped, the trick is finding their particular location
: in the dozens of square miles (maybe more) of water where
: the dumping took place. Such a haul would certainly give
: the recovery effort a needed boost.
:
: Rob
Would the US Navy lay claim to any deep water recovery?