report of Submerged WW2 Bomber found in lake in Canada, could it be a Stirling?

Yes, but has anyone ask NASA if it could be recovered? Maybe if in good enough condition, the Heritage Lottery Fund could pay for a giant shoehorn so Duxford could squeeze it into Lord Foster’s carbuncle.

Phillip….so long as it’s not the “Sally B”… 🙂
Darn the yanks… why can’t they find a Stirling on the moon….or a Walrus 🙂

Corrosion would be minimal, but I think the Meteorite damage would have been substantial – there is not atmosphere, so I am sure that thing is being hit by 1000s of tiny dust sized meteorites every day and putting holes in it. So no thanks I will not put my money on this expedition. 😀

Yes, but has anyone ask NASA if it could be recovered.

But did NASA ever go to the moon ?

I thought it was all filmed in the desert & anybody who blabbed thereafter was bumped off when passing any grassy knoll (LoL) 😀

“Lib” on the moon

NASA hasnt got a good record, put the Heritage Lottery Fund in touch with CONNIVETHEWORLD and they can recover it!!

4. We have located the remains of an “Apollo” Landing Craft in the sea, minus its orbiter section, (we’re not saying what sea – or what planet – its a secret) suffice to say the location is very “Tranquil”. We are not sure what became of the pilot or crew but it has footprints around the bottom of the ladder where someone with “small feet” has made “giant leaps” in the surrounding dust – but the investors who fund this recovery will have something from “out of this world”!

We are very experienced in such recoveries, in the 1970’s we managed the recovery of SKYLAB, unfortunately we allowed it to re-enter the atmosphere at to high a speed and it got burnt a little bit, but next time we will do better.

Please send lots of money to us and we will find all of the above for you

CONNIVETHEWORLD

Yes, but has anyone ask NASA if it could be recovered? Maybe if in good enough condition, the Heritage Lottery Fund could pay for a giant shoehorn so Duxford could squeeze it into Lord Foster’s carbuncle.

“Lib” on the moon

Forgot to mention…That bomber on the moon was a B-32 Dominator, not a B-24. When I was in a journalism course at college about twenty years ago we used to read The Weekly World News, most goofball of the supermarket tabs, for laughs. That tab featured the B-32 found parked in a crater on the Moon, photos and all, in an edition a year or two later. IIRC it even turned up (not, needless to say, as an actual rumour) in one of the Challenge mags! Quite hilarious. (And corrosion would surely be minimal on the Moon…) :rolleyes:

S.

Hi again…

Just back from WIX, and the “Stirling in a lake” thing is ABSOLUTELY hogwash! Nearly the whole thread is a sequence of inside jokes, amusing perhaps but not to be taken even as proper rumour…pity, for just a moment there I nursed a tiny bit of hope that part of one of the Summerside Stirlings might remain!

Cheers

S.

Hi all–

Have to agree, this one has to be hogwash. The “entrepreneur” could be referring obliquely to the WEE Lincoln that ended up in the drink in the Arctic, but a Stirling that ain’t. There were, though, a few Stirlings in the Maritimes during the war. Surely if even a good chunk of any of those had survived, the fact would long since have come to light…

S.

Ok time for me to climb onto my soapbox… Ahem test test is this working?!
I just came from looking at that forum thread…

Sorry guys but I am not going to sift through all the bull***t in that thread to try and find the true facts if any at all… Posts like that sure do iritate the warbird community!!

For the record though there is a lancaster serial FM102 in Quebec that had a midair collision with a dehav vampire fighter in the 50’s. The lancaster crashed into heavily wooded area and there is not much left. The complete tail section was scrapped in the late 90’s!! 😯

Can i just set the record straight that there are NO Stirlings anywhere in Canada at all……!!!!!!

Please reply timmo timpson….. pleasseeeeee!

Okay, apart from this Stirling and the B24 which I am convinced is still resting on the surface of the moon (I’m very serious – it was in the paper), are there actually any real hidden gems out there?

I know of a Halifax in a lake in Germany and another buried in England somewhere. Then we have LW170. Are there any other bombers waiting to be recovered?

Phillip Rhodes

(you can fool half the people half the time –
the rest are just smiling and nodding knowingly)

[QUOTE=Onliwun]found this on a competing forum, details are sketchy, no side scans available yet?

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1229

STIRLING BOMBER FOUND
My proffessional Team of experienced Divers have discovered a rare WWII Stirling Bomber, the location of which is being kept very secret!!!, the aircraft is intact and sunken in a fresh water lake, and We now require sponsors to recover this aircraft. It is complete and in airworthy condition and just needs drying out.
Serious enquiries to [email]con.nive@CONNIVETHEWORLD.COM[/email]

I think you will find this is a p*ss take of the ‘dive the world’ thread that was on this forum last week….

Dave

“In airworthy condition and just needs drying out.”

…and after I woke up….

What a load of old eyewash!

“It is complete and in airworthy condition and just needs drying out.”

Is it April 1st again already?? 😀 Statements like that leave me with a faint whiff of bullsh*t I’m afraid. Sorry to be so sceptical,but…

Hmmmm.