B17 Swamp ghost

Apologies to Moggy for resurrecting an old post. I have a link that may help

http://www.pacificghosts.com/swampghost/index.html

Nice vids.

According to the author of that recent magazine article, the plane hasn’t rotted at all over the last 60 years. 😉 Apparently the indepth metalurgical studies he performed during his one hour trip to the site showed that more damage has been caused by the people who removed the guns, bombsight, and a couple of other pieces of onboard gear than by nature itself. I suppose we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the Swamp Ghost will reportedly continue to remain completely unaffected by the effects of time and the elements – as long as we leave her safe & sound in her current “romantic” state. As reported in the article, recovery of the plane is apparently beyond the ability of humankind, and the effort to do so would surely result in the planes complete destruction.

Google has produced the following result:

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-2446.html

I personally think it should be recovered and preserved instead of letting it rot away in the middle of nowhere.

Hi Peter,

Well the last thing I heard was that David Tallichete was trying to put together a group to go down and recover her for the USAFM.

But a certain person in Aussieland put a Monkey Wrench into the whole thing.

The main problem is the Gov. doesn’t exist in any form we would call a Gov., their are talks that I’ve heard from US Dept. Of State that they might declare Swamp Ghost a UNSCOE Artifact. If this happens then in theary they could go down and recover her without the PNG Gov. permission.

Sorry its not alot of information put I hope it helps some what.

Cheers