Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eeyore on May 03, 2013, 05:54:46 PM
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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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......be a shame...
.............if it were to dissappear :noid
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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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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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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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:cry :cry
I hope the next plane in game will not be one of these pencil planes :cry
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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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:cry :cry
I hope the next plane in game will not be one of these pencil planes :cry
I do, just to spite you. :devil
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I do, just to spite you. :devil
:rofl
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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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Why is is always Wigan?
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Why is is always Wigan?
Because Limahl was born there :old:
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Because Limahl was born there :old:
Ah, explains everything!
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Ah, explains everything!
Yes :old:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpGdLsG87qo
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Isnt it crazy how nobody were thoughtful enough to preserve samples of these planes after WWII and now they have to spend fortunes restoring old wrecks...
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Actually it's pretty understandable that after years of war, the folks would not want reminders hanging around. Sure they
are interesting and valuable now, but back then they were useless junk that reminded folks of what they had suffered.
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Very few Do17's survived the war. After all, production ended in 1940. Of the few survivors Finland scrapped the last one in 1952.
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Yes back then no one thought of preservation particularly since they were valuable as scrap metal. No one was thinking: 'I'll put a away a few of those. They'll be valuable in 70 years time when I'm dead.' The price of much militaria has shot up in recent years. Even the basic items like WW2 GI helmets have begun to be worth from a couple of hundred dollars up a couple of grand each even if there are thousands of them still around. As for German helmets and anything German really. They're literally worth their weight in gold.
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Who would pay $1000 dollors for a German helmet?
They were on the losing side :old:
Ahhhhh!
German engineering that went into making it :rofl
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Who would pay $1000 dollors for a German helmet?
They were on the losing side :old:
Ahhhhh!
German engineering that went into making it :rofl
$1000 for a helmet is cheap. Some of them can go for $12,000 particularly the SS ones.
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$1000 for a helmet is cheap. Some of them can go for $12,000 particularly the SS ones.
let's go halves Zack! We can each ge an S! S for
super!!!!'
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yes :rofl