TIGHAR Recoveries

They were involved with the Lightning wreck on the UK beach last year. Wonder how they got there.

Cheers

Cees

When that was announced, I made the comment on this forum that FINALLY they’d be able to say they found something…(other than parts of shoes on a deserted Pacific island)…:diablo:

A couple of posts later, the groups founder Rick Gillespie (sp?) made a statement about the P-38.
I was embarrassed…:o
Not much mind you, since they still seem to be better at getting media coverage (and money) than finding things.

They were involved with the Lightning wreck on the UK beach last year. Wonder how they got there.

Cheers

Cees

Nevermind, back to TIGHAR….. :p

Of course they work, Tangmere just proved it for you! The problem comes when you think of $1,000,000, your hands just tense up and bingo, you go all over the field/beach/whatever!:D

James Randi (http://www.randi.org/) has conducted a large number of double blind test with people who claim these divining rods work. None have been successful.

And thats despite James Randi has a 1 million $ reward for anyone who can prove such things under scientific testing.

People might like the rods for various reasons, but they do not work (other than as rods, which they are good at).

Funnily enough……years ago we could not locate a particular site and used divining rods. An old local turned up, sneered at our hi-tec 21st Century equipment and produced two “L” shaped welding rods and proceeded to divine the site. He found it, absolutely spot on. Being a sceptic, I tried it and found it also worked. The rest of the team did it, and it worked the same for everyone. How it works, I have no idea. But work it did!

$14.95 can get you highly scientific location equipment suitable for wreck locating – “… locating misplaced items” – http://www.naturesprite.com/
The Midnight Blue finish is close to RAF Blue if you feel so inclined…

JEEZ!

Disclaimer:

The use of this device might actually make you stupid.

$14.95 can get you highly scientific location equipment suitable for wreck locating – “… locating misplaced items” – http://www.naturesprite.com/
The Midnight Blue finish is close to RAF Blue if you feel so inclined…

One problem, Mondariz. Cannot decide whether I need to go for the beginners or intermediate course. The advanced one may be a bit beyond me! Oh, what the hell…..my bank account details to follow!:D:D

I’ll donate a few bob towards your education Tangmere1940. Just give me your full bank and personal details in a PM :diablo:

Thanks for confirming what I thought to be the case. However, if you want to pay $XXX you can attend one of TIGHAR’s aviation archaeology courses led by TIGHAR’s experienced team members, apparently. Must start saving….!:D

I have just browsed through TIGHAR Tracks, the zine published by TIGHAR, and have not seen any recovery articles. They seem to mount expiditions to crash sites and report what they find. They also seem to mount a large amount of fundraising activities (funds for TIGHAR).

Strangely enough, as I always just assumed they had been involved in plenty of recoveries (seems to be the impression I get from their website).

Nevertheless, TIGHAR are more of an Aviation archaeology group in the wreck chaser sense. They investigate and dig up scraps (nothing wrong with that), rather then recovering and restoring aircraft.

The number of aircraft wrecks recovered by TIGHAR is zero.