Not forgetting the B-36 crash in Wiltshire.

Fortunately with no fatalities.

You would have thought that with the resurgent nationalism in Russia and its softening attitude towards its Soviet years greater care would be taken of its aviation history.

Well raised points.

Just the paint miss-match of the two Phantoms irritates the inner pedant in me.

Yet the IWM has ex RAF F-4J ZE359 painted in US Navy colours.

A swap with East Fortune would not be out impossible. Just pricey.

I wish them all the best. Not a pretty aircraft but deserving of more attention.

However ‘Mirage Hobby PZL P11z’ probably indicating the first hit journalist got whilst a-Googling the plane.

Let the scrying continue. Surely staring at Google Earth and seeing patterns in the random patterns of colour in the empty ocean is the 21st C. equivalent.

Putting aside all the stuff about refraction; suppose Amelia Earhart had ditched her aircraft intact on the ocean -and Earhart was the lady to do that- there is then the 80 years of deterioration since to think about. If the Electra is in water shallow enough to be seen from high up then that is pretty shallow water, full of heat and currents and life. There are 8o years of storms churning the water and currents burying things under sand. There is 80 years of saltwater doing wicked things to the airframe. And there is 80 years of life clinging to and growing on the aircraft and turning it into an artificial reef. At this late stage, assuming Earhart’s aircraft is sat underwater in one piece would you even be able to tell its an aircraft unless you get up close?

The Hawker Tornado.

Thank heavens something is happening to the mortal remains of TT193.

But how much realistically can be used in a flyable airframe? Its been in a landing accident then dumped outside in the Albertian climate for years.

But before I come across as too downbeat I wish Pioneer Aero Restorations every success.