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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: betty on April 27, 2009, 11:43:11 AM
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Question...what was it that they found? My mom called me the other day saying the found a WWII plane in the Pacific Ocean and were able to pull it out of the water in one piece. I have tried to find the news broadcast that she seen but was not able to find it so far. Any one know anything bout this?
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Not exactly the Pacific, but maybe she was talking about this?
http://cbs5.com/watercooler/lake.michigan.bomber.2.993742.html (http://cbs5.com/watercooler/lake.michigan.bomber.2.993742.html)
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I guess there is like 20 or more of them sitting around off the coast of Milwaukee and Chicago
i live in Milwaukee and it seams like every few years they talk about bringing one up..
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cool! ty that was cool to read tec! that was prolly what she was talkin bout. but she did say the pacific ocean..but keep in mind, my mom is 70 years old hehe
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In one of the last issues of Pacific Fishing there's an article about them finding a ww2 sub (uss grunian (sp?) off of Adak island. The son of someone on the sub chartered the F/V Aquilla to go looking, and after two years they found it.
Not a plane, but recent, ww2, and the pacific... ;)
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I think it is spelled Grunion. The sons of the skipper had been researching for years, and searching for a couple of years when they thought they figured out where it was. They eventually got sonar images, and then finally a photos from an unmanned vehicle.
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cool! ty that was cool to read tec! that was prolly what she was talkin bout. but she did say the pacific ocean..but keep in mind, my mom is 70 years old hehe
She's not one of the women on my last flight to Chicago who looked at the cloud shadows on Lake Michigan and asked with a totally straight face "Are those whales?" is she?
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Didn't hear about it, but I bet 68Donkey was the one who crashed it there.
"Mayday, mayday, MAYDAY!" ROFLMAO
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:lol :lol
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Im going to fly out to the pacific ocean oh dear ive lost a wing
lol :rofl
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She's not one of the women on my last flight to Chicago who looked at the cloud shadows on Lake Michigan and asked with a totally straight face "Are those whales?" is she?
You know I use the term "LoL" rather liberally but I rarely actually laugh out loud. This is on of those rare instances. :lol
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Didn't hear about it, but I bet 68Donkey was the one who crashed it there.
"Mayday, mayday, MAYDAY!" ROFLMAO
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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Didn't hear about it, but I bet 68Donkey was the one who crashed it there.
"Mayday, mayday, MAYDAY!" ROFLMAO
Maybe he will follow me down com'me little spit....oops i wasn't looking and hit the drink. :rofl
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Just watched the Donkey film, the internets made me lol twice in 15 minutes. Pretty good day except that I was eating while watching the film, and long after Donkey was down Russheim busted out one last "mayday" and I almost choked while laughing.
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Just watched the Donkey film, the internets made me lol twice in 15 minutes. Pretty good day except that I was eating while watching the film, and long after Donkey was down Russheim busted out one last "mayday" and I almost choked while laughing.
What film is this? o.O
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What film is this? o.O
/\ Wants to see the "Donkey Show".
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See Rule #6
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What film is this? o.O
http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film7_152_lo_good_0000.ahf (http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film7_152_lo_good_0000.ahf)
http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_68donkey_2-1_152-D951.ahf (http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_68donkey_2-1_152-D951.ahf)
http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_HajoWing_donkeySoundtrack_0054.ahf (http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_HajoWing_donkeySoundtrack_0054.ahf)
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I think it was an avenger.. Please correct me if i'm wrong... :rock
Poor Ms. Betty, everyone tries to f##k up your posts.
I saw the news i think the plane was an avenger.. :aok
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http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film7_152_lo_good_0000.ahf (http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film7_152_lo_good_0000.ahf)
http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_68donkey_2-1_152-D951.ahf (http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_68donkey_2-1_152-D951.ahf)
http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_HajoWing_donkeySoundtrack_0054.ahf (http://dasmuppets.com/public/moot/OneWeekStuff/film5_HajoWing_donkeySoundtrack_0054.ahf)
Heh! Does that guy still play?
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She's not one of the women on my last flight to Chicago who looked at the cloud shadows on Lake Michigan and asked with a totally straight face "Are those whales?" is she?
Did you mention that there aren't any whales in the Great Lakes, and that those things she saw were "Nessie's" and "Champ's" kin on migration?
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If you happen to live in central Florida near Titusville or are visiting the Kennedy Space Center, there is the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum, http://www.vacwarbirds.org/ (http://www.vacwarbirds.org/). (http://www.vacwarbirds.org/images/map.gif)
They have a wildcat that was pulled from Lake Michigan a number of years ago. The raising was documented on WTTW, Chicago's PBS station, by one of the former host of the show "Wild Chicago" Will Klinger. I don't remember all the details but I know after they finished restoration they found the pilot that crashed it during takeoff from one of the carriers and got him to sit in it for a photo op. I believe he lost power during takeoff and belly flopped into the water right in front of carrier. They used the pictures they took of the plane and more specifically the interior of the cockpit when they found it still underwater to exonerate the pilot from accusations of pilot error. I am not sure if it is currently air worthy but I believe it was their goal to make it air worthy.
I had seen the episode way back when it was first run then promptly forgot about it until about 6 years ago when I was in Florida for a vacation and happened to come across it while visiting the museum on the way to the space center. (I spent 6 hours at the museum and about 2 at the space center. :P)
Here are some photos off of their website.
(http://www.vacwarbirds.org/AirplaneGallery/images/DSC1043-F4F-4orFM1.jpg)
"Picture of Restoration of the Gruman Wildcat that was at the bottom of Lake Michigan for 50 years. Restoration is by the "Grumman Gremlins". Wildcat Coordinator Harold Larkin and the men are Grumman Retirees that worked on the aircraft during WWII. The project got started in 2000."
(http://www.vacwarbirds.org/images/crew.gif)
(http://www.vacwarbirds.org/images/fix.gif)
And here is a photo of me standing next to it in 2003 on that trip.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/209/497414016_6956a38d04.jpg?v=0)