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Offline eeyore

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Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« on: May 03, 2013, 05:54:46 PM »
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51763044/ns/travel/#.UYQ_vKK84oM

A team is attempting to salvage the DO 17 from the bottom of the Channel.  :airplane:



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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2013, 06:04:33 PM »
......be a shame...





































.............if it were to dissappear :noid
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2013, 09:46:42 PM »
Old news.  The RAF Museum has been planning the recovery for some time.  One of a kind survivor if they pull it off.
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2013, 09:47:53 PM »
Old news.  The RAF Museum has been planning the recovery for some time.  One of a kind survivor if they pull it off.

how so?
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2013, 02:12:03 AM »
The discovery happened a while ago and divers surveyed the wreck.  The difficulty is funding and obviously raising a fragile one of a kind bomber and preserving it.  It's been in salt water all this time so dealing with all the problems that creates is a major issue.

The RAF museum is heading up the recovery and preservation.  There was much talk of this bird last year but logistics couldn't be figured out fast enough to act then.  So they needed to wait for the weather to change and start again this spring.
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2013, 02:16:44 AM »
 :cry :cry

I hope the next plane in game will not be one of these pencil planes :cry

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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2013, 05:15:02 AM »
Hopefully they will recover and display it. It will certainly be unique. The English channel must be littered with the remains of many aircraft.

Here where I live in Ireland at least two RAF bombers came down during the war in the bay nearby. A Wellington and a Whitley. Every time I'm climbing overhead with a load of skydivers I look down hopefully for a sight of a shadow under the water. So far no luck!

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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2013, 06:42:40 AM »
:cry :cry

I hope the next plane in game will not be one of these pencil planes :cry



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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #8 on: May 04, 2013, 10:31:03 AM »
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2013, 10:43:17 AM »
Breaking news they have found a Henkel Bubble car in a shed in Wigan :old:

The next update will have a perked version :old:
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2013, 06:29:20 PM »
Why is is always Wigan?

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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2013, 06:39:28 PM »
Why is is always Wigan?

Because Limahl was born there  :old:
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2013, 05:59:26 AM »
Because Limahl was born there  :old:
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Re: Dornier DO 17 bomber found in the English Channel
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2013, 07:40:07 AM »
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