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Title: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
Post by: ozrocker on December 08, 2012, 09:21:52 AM

Cool :aok


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/07/15757089-crashed-wwii-fighter-plane-recovered-from-lake-michigan?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=7


                                                                                                                                                      :cheers: Oz

Title: Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
Post by: MrGeezer on December 08, 2012, 12:23:07 PM

Right off the beaches of my hometown.

Title: Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
Post by: JOACH1M on December 08, 2012, 01:43:39 PM

The plane doesn't look to be in that bad of shape! (Except missing tail)

Title: Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
Post by: Rino 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?

Title: Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
Post by: JOACH1M on December 08, 2012, 05:22:55 PM

Quote from: Rino 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?

i wonder that too, maybe they crash the fall off from impact...  :confused:

Title: Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
Post by: cpxxx 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.

Title: Re: FM2 recovered from Lake Michigan
Post by: Rino 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.