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Title: F6F found off of Florida
Post by: mthrockmor on November 28, 2012, 04:52:59 PM

Found another one. Interesting that they note some 70+ Hellcats ditched off of Florida from '43 to early 50's. Many more to be found, likely in the same condition.

Boo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/hellcat-fighter-plane-wreckage-discovered-miami_n_2205048.html?ncid=webmail13#slide=more266341

Title: Re: F6F found off of Florida
Post by: MarineUS on November 28, 2012, 11:09:50 PM

Wish I could be there to see them in person as they continue to find them.

Title: Re: F6F found off of Florida
Post by: Maverick on November 29, 2012, 10:18:30 AM

It's a shame they are going to leave it there.  :(

Title: Re: F6F found off of Florida
Post by: Babalonian on November 29, 2012, 04:43:14 PM

There is a lot of politics and fact checking to do before the Navy will allow recovery.  Hopefuly the pilot didn't loose their life in the incident, else it's a gravesite.  Looking forward to the Navy's report, didn't see anything to distinguish this aircraft as a specific one so they'll probabley first need to get around to getting out and down there to identify it.

Title: Re: F6F found off of Florida
Post by: Stellaris on November 30, 2012, 07:17:25 PM

70+?  That's better than one lost every two months for ten years.  Fun fact from my aircrash investigator wife.  If the accident rate today were the same as the accident rate in the 1950s, there would be no planes left in the airforce...

Title: Re: F6F found off of Florida
Post by: JOACH1M on November 30, 2012, 08:54:13 PM

To bad the navy won't let them restore any of them.

Just let the birds fly. :airplane:

Title: Re: F6F found off of Florida
Post by: BERN1 on December 02, 2012, 04:08:08 AM

I bet if it is not a gravesite someone will try to recover it