Sunday, December 24, 2023

Too Far Gone?

 


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  1. There is an outstanding WW-2 Air Museum in Colorado Springs that has dug virtually totally destroyed planes out of the jungles and completely restored them to flying again. I am of a mind that this crashed plane would fit their criteria to be restored.

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  2. Looks like a P-38 Lightning.

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    1. Like this?
      https://www.ericksoncollection.com/aircraft#/p-38-lightning/

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  3. How much do you have to spend is always the question...

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  4. A P-38 is never too far gone to fix.

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  5. That nose panel doesn't look right for a gun package. I suspect it is a camera ship. Recon or BDA (bomb damage assessment).
    Hope that is not seawater!

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  6. https://pacificwrecks.com/ enters the chat.


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  7. I grew up near here, passed the location several times a year. a friend sent me the articles when it first came to light with one comment- "under our noses the whole time"

    https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/21-photos-of-northeast-ohios-deserted-plane-sanctuary/Slideshow/38344514

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  8. By the by, this is a site link to the WW-2 Air Museum in Colo. Springs.

    https://www.worldwariiaviation.org/

    P-38:

    https://www.worldwariiaviation.org/aircraft/lockheed-p-38-lightning

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  9. Give the rarity of some of these aircraft they are all worth saving for restoration or as patterns for new fabricated duplicates. Plenty of people in that business around the country.

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  10. Anything is restorable if you have deep enough pockets. New Zealand has the most liberal aviation laws regarding restoration of warbirds. As long as you have the original data plate (which is brass or stainless steel) you can recertify an aircraft even if the data plate is the only original part when you're done. Then it can be sold internationally as an airworthy aircraft at a favourable exchange rate ($1NZ = $0.63US)
    Al_in_Ottawa

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  11. Not for Yoda.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-CpzZJl8w

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  12. My uniformed impression is that guys who restore airplanes go to insane lengths - maybe putting more money and effort into an airplane (in a proportional sense) than almost any other kind of restoration. I've heard a joke that goes something like "when they found the wreck, the only thing salvageable was the data plate."

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  13. Should have read, "uninformed".

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