Found some pictures of abandoned planes

..and one of the Dranske E-boat fleet on Rugen.

The Peenemunde airbase seems to be pretty much a relic, now, with a museum being the largest tenant… any comments from our german brethren?

The airfield is open for recreational flying in the summer, and the small museum is located in Peenemunde village. Attached map shows a general layout of the old WW2 site. I don’t know how free the access will be. There was a plan to clear the trees from Prufstand VII, but this was shelved due to the possibility of UXBs.

The location of this lake was in the middle of a military zone, and the western concept of ready access did not apply. There were many examples of this, including the swastika wood near Berlin which was not discovered until freer times after re-unification.

One engine had been salvaged from the lake in NVA times by a military team, but the normal sensitivity and media interest applied to such sites nowadays was unthinkable in the DDR.

Even when I was last at Peenmunde in 94 access to the whole site was restricted by the evocation of unexploded ordnance, despite the NVA range only occupying the northern tip. Things may have changed since.

Funnily enough, the Sea Hunters program was just re-run here this past week. Access to all of the peninsula appears to have been granted. The Peenemunde airbase seems to be pretty much a relic, now, with a museum being the largest tenant… any comments from our german brethren?

One engine had been salvaged from the lake in NVA times by a military team, but the normal sensitivity and media interest applied to such sites nowadays was unthinkable in the DDR.

Even when I was last at Peenmunde in 94 access to the whole site was restricted by the evocation of unexploded ordnance, despite the NVA range only occupying the northern tip. Things may have changed since.

Thank you – I hadn’t even thought about the DDR element, thanks

The story I was told was that the Lanc came down fairly intact but locals had recovered bits down the years, also there was a tale of someone drowning while looking over the wreck

Not wishing to appear callus, but that doesn’t seem like a large piece, could there really be unrecovered remains there or is it simply because the bodies were in wreck at some stage?

The location of this lake was in the middle of a military zone, and the western concept of ready access did not apply. There were many examples of this, including the swastika wood near Berlin which was not discovered until freer times after re-unification.

One engine had been salvaged from the lake in NVA times by a military team, but the normal sensitivity and media interest applied to such sites nowadays was unthinkable in the DDR.

Even when I was last at Peenmunde in 94 access to the whole site was restricted by the evocation of unexploded ordnance, despite the NVA range only occupying the northern tip. Things may have changed since.

This do?

Not wishing to appear callus, but that doesn’t seem like a large piece, could there really be unrecovered remains there or is it simply because the bodies were in wreck at some stage?

Peenemunde lancaster

Looks like you can see the outline of the wing?

Yes you can. On a still air day with the right light conditions it was much clearer, though I never had a camera with me at the right moment (’93). Of the fuselage you could see about three times the length of the exposed roof section. The other wing, if any of it was attached, was probably covered in silt.
As for Peenemunde itself there was a V1 launching ramp at the top of the airfield in reasonable condition, but the V2 launch site and research buildings were fairly well flattened. The power station still supplies the local electricity and some of the accomodation is still in use. The outer shell of the oxygen plant survives, as do a couple of observation posts on nearby islands.
Even more impressive than the Lancaster were the thirteen E-boats scuttled just up the coast in a military Sperrgebiet and still reasonably intact.

This do?

Looks like you can see the outline of the wing?

I remember the documentary about Kee Bird such a shame what happened to her = (

J 35 Draken at Rinkaby

These are sad….http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=36799

The three J 35 Draken airframes in pics where all brought to Halmstad for scrapping some 1,5 month ago together with the remains of the Saab Sk 60. What about the cars etc I don’t know. All aircraft that remains at Rinkaby is a intact J 35 as gateguard.

Buried MIG 25 in Iraq

http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/country-by-country/IRAQ/mig-02.jpg

Images of A-10s being buried in pits at the following.

http://www.pats-world.com/gulfwar/abdr-197.htm

F-4 stripped and apparently buried.

http://www.pats-world.com/gulfwar/abdr-f4.htm

TJ

I have seen pictures of battle damaged A-10s being buried in the sand

I realize this is a slight thread drift but what happened to the remains of the aircraft that were shot down over Iraq during Gulf War 1 in 1991?

ah a benefit of global warming is that we’ll find all the aircraft ‘hidden’ under the ice!;)

I went up there in the early 1990s, the center section was visible then, I think most of the wing is intact too. Good museum with some cold war Russian stuff ‘acquired’ by JG9’s engineering officer when the wall fell (got some photos of the Migs somewhere)

Peenemunde

Anyone got a photo of Lancaster DV202 KM-Z lost Aug18th 1943 in the Kolpin-See close to Peenemünde supposedly visible? What looks like the outline is visible in google earth.

This do?

Do you remember where you found this photo?

T J

Yes, it was on flickr. I will dig out the URL ASAP.

A lady in Texas bought 400 acres of land and found this A-26 (as far as I can see).

Do you remember where you found this photo?

T J