I think this is great – tremendous news and well done to all concerned BUT
Is it just me or does anybody else have a problem with the breaking up of the He111 for parts- This is a genuine combat A/C virtually intact for 60 years and now it is having parts removed for another restoration. I realise that it will all be made to look OK afterwoods but there is not much logic to this as reported so I question this bit of the process.
Again I am not trying to pull these guys down for this is a great day for all of us but why tarnish it this little bit..
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John Parker
By: archieraf - 3rd September 2004 at 12:17
Hi Setter,
I don’t know if the exact plan for what is to happen to these aircraft is actually known for sure yet. It still seems there are several different opinions and various options.
What I have been led to understand regarding how they came to sink in the first place is that they were damaged a/c that were sitting on the ice and being used by the Germans for spare parts to keep some of their other machines flying. Therefore, some parts will most likely have been removed from them prior to them sinking when the ice melted. Therefore it is more than likely that they will not be complete a/c when they are recovered. We will just have to wait and see if this is indeed the case as the story continues to unfold.
It’s certainly all very interesting though.
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September 3, 2004 at 11:26 am