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And you today in the picture at the right?
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12-19-2012 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by
Sarge1998
And you today in the picture at the right?
I am no longer worried about my comment not being taken as tounge in cheek.
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Personally I'm more excited about the planned recovery of an actual Dornier Do-17z (the last one in existence) rather than the planned recovery of some alleged Spitfires:
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Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
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That Do-17z ought to be as fragile as wet newsprint by this point. But the report seems promising!
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Stopping it returning whence it came and turning back into Bauxite will require time and clever chemistry, but things seem to be in hand:
Mary Ryan tries to save the last Flying Pencil | Laboratory News
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
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Stabilize it enough to build assembly and sub-assembly fixtures. Then carefully derivet it and start a new one to fly. Put the old back together if there's anything salvagable enough to hold it's own weight.
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AFAIK the intention is to clean, stabilise and preserve it - not restore. Restoration would involve the loss of too much original material. Similarly Handley-Page Halifax W1048 TL-S is displayed 'as found' at the RAF museum at Hendon. It was recovered from a Norwegian
Fjord in 1971.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
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My intention? Not restoration! Get a new one flying. Or three or five. Spitfires and Hurricanes need targets...
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Reminds me of the race to lift a Focke Wulf Fw 200 Condor from the bottom of a Norwegian fjord near Trondheim. Norwegians, the German Air Force and the Berlin transport museum all wanted to be there first. The Museum got its funding together first and had to get results on TV fast. So the `plane was lifted without draining all the water out. Of course it broke the fuselage ... and it´s now in very small bits here in Berlin.
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The Condor was capable of crossing the Atlantic with a payload. Hitler was planning to send it on a one-way bombing mission to NY.
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What an awesome find! Best of luck to the lucky bloke who is doing the resto.....I can hardly wait to see them shined up!
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