By: T J Johansen - 8th March 2006 at 14:41
The Lost Squadron Recovery group are not the only ones after the Greenland P-38’s! A new organization called Operation Bolero Recovery & Restoration Group, Inc. has been formed in US for the recovery of the B-17’s and the P-38’s: http://www.operationbolero.org/
Ben
So, who has the salvage rights then… :confused:
T J
By: MK959 - 8th March 2006 at 07:55
Operation Bolero Recovery & Restoration Group, Inc.
The Lost Squadron Recovery group are not the only ones after the Greenland P-38’s! A new organization called Operation Bolero Recovery & Restoration Group, Inc. has been formed in US for the recovery of the B-17’s and the P-38’s: http://www.operationbolero.org/
Ben
By: Seafuryfan - 27th February 2006 at 19:32
I won’t be suprised if at least some of the other aircraft turn out to be crumpled into squashed metal by the effect of glacial movment. However, many would have said that about Glacier Girl before she was found. I really enjoyed the documentaryon this P38; Steve Hinton’s landing was a classic curving fighter approach onto a three pointer, IIRC (I wonder if that was because it minimised that part of the flight envelope that would prove irrecoverable in the event of single-engine failure?)
Anyway, back to topic. We can only hope for success – good luck to the team!
By: Camlobe - 27th February 2006 at 19:25
Lets see if Discovery Wings do another of their documentaries about this.
By: SeaDog - 26th February 2006 at 17:28
Is there more information, or any links to the supposed cache found in the Philippines?
By: Atcham Tower - 26th February 2006 at 15:34
Wait a few years and global warming will cough them out, along with a lot of other aeroplanes! Won’t be much dry land to display them on, though! 🙂
By: trumper - 26th February 2006 at 13:57
Good luck to them,will be an interesting expedition,i hope they will get them all.
By: ...starfire - 26th February 2006 at 11:26
Hm. I wish them good luck, but … well I do not think they will make it. Maybe they re-locate the planes and melt their way down to one of it, but I think not very much more.
I´d be interested whether the planes are still resting under 80m/240ft of ice and snow. As far as I understood, the planes inside the glacier are still “going downwards” and moving with the ice towards the ocean as we write … A mark of 5m / 15ft height erected by one expedition vanished completely during one year – And “Glacier Girl” was recovered 14 years ago! And no one knows the conditon of the remaining P-38s …
By: MK959 - 26th February 2006 at 11:05
Lost Squadron Recovery website
You can find details about the Lost Squadron Recovery group here.
Ben
By: DaveM2 - 26th February 2006 at 09:49
Don’t recall any P-38 in the Aviator?. B-17s have already shown to be crushed..so I guess the P-38s..one day……if the cache supposedly found in the Philippines doesn’t make the Iceland ones ‘worthless’
Dave
By: Dave Homewood - 26th February 2006 at 09:45
Interesting news. I hope they are successful with this venture.
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