I’ve been sitting hear this evening thinking about that poor B25 down at North Weald and the thought came to mind as to what was the last aircraft of a design used in WW2 to be scrapped and when. I was not thinking of aircraft such as the Dakota, Harvard or Piper Cub as these are still working aircraft in many cases. My interests are mainly classic jets so nothing springs straight to mind, over to you guys!
By: Shorty01 - 3rd March 2004 at 22:28
Some good pictures here.
http://www.j-aircraft.com/relics/relics.htm
Unfortunately salvaging anything round here apparently results in difficulties with the locals. Some have cottoned on to the fact they are valuable and demand unrealistically large amounts of money for them. Whilst the arguments go on with the law abiding enthusiasts, some bug*er nicks it or it gets scrapped.
Additionally, I wouldn’t fancy wandering around the Solomans with the current political situation.
Nature has also had a hand with volcanic eruptions probably burying a bit of stuff.
By: DGH - 3rd March 2004 at 09:49
Blimey ! 😮
By: Dan Johnson - 3rd March 2004 at 08:11
Originally posted by Mark12
Barge loads of WWII aircraft are still being scrapped in Papua New Guinea. A very difficult area to ‘work’ in. 🙁Mark
I was reading William Manchester’s memior of his Pacific war from the late 70s “Goodbye Darkness”. In one chapter he talks about his trip to New Guiniea and in the midst of his walking the trail from Port Morseby he describes walking into a clearing and seeing 30 P38s and B24s lined up wingtip to wingtip, “Worthless since VJ Day”.
I just about fell out of my chair when I read it. I imagine this bunch got the torch already but this was 1979 I believe when he was there.
It breaks the heart to think of those planes with a combat history that we would appreciate so much now, are more then likely long gone, when they were there still lined up that long after the war
Dan
By: Mark12 - 2nd March 2004 at 22:46
Barge loads of WWII aircraft are still being scrapped in Papua New Guinea. A very difficult area to ‘work’ in. 🙁
Mark
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