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Offline ozrocker

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FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
« on: December 08, 2012, 09:21:52 AM »
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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/07/15757089-crashed-wwii-fighter-plane-recovered-from-lake-michigan?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=7


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Offline MrGeezer

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Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2012, 12:23:07 PM »
Right off the beaches of my hometown.
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Offline JOACH1M

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Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2012, 01:43:39 PM »
The plane doesn't look to be in that bad of shape! (Except missing tail)
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Offline Rino

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Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2012, 04:32:51 PM »
     Seems like every WW2 bird I see come out of fresh water is missing the ammo storage covers.  Wonder what material they made
them out of?
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Offline JOACH1M

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Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2012, 05:22:55 PM »
     Seems like every WW2 bird I see come out of fresh water is missing the ammo storage covers.  Wonder what material they made
them out of?
i wonder that too, maybe they crash the fall off from impact...  :confused:
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Offline cpxxx

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Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2012, 05:37:41 PM »
I don't know but a lot of the aircraft that ended up in Lake Michigan are combat veterans. Doesn't matter much though. Any FM2 is absolutely amazing particularly when they ended up in fresh water.


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Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2012, 10:30:09 PM »
     Problem with the Lake Michigan birds is that 99.9% are Navy and the US Navy doesn't like to give them up.
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