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[snakeyes]

 

[snakeyes]

 

[Basket case]

Nice comparison shot between the BMW Radial engine and the Junkers V-12 versions.

Meanwhile at McMurdo, an abandoned Constellation...
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View attachment 676514 This is how the plane is disappearing after a non-fatal crash in 1970. The plane, named 'Pegasus', had the surrounding airfield named after it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Field

and in a few more years they can rescue it like Glacier Girl

 

[khryslerkid]

Fall backs and cartwheels near the end are just crazy!

 

[polywideblock]

Do215/217 night fighter

 

[khryslerkid]

and in a few more years they can rescue it like Glacier Girl
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Cool story

https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/22/plane-freed-from-a-glacier-sets-out-for-britain-again/

 

[Photon440]

and in a few more years they can rescue it like Glacier Girl
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That would be a cool story too! But unlikely. The right wing tore off in the crash and ended up a couple hundred feet ahead of the plane when it came to rest. I think the left wing was removed and the rest of the fuselage was abandoned.

 

[Basket case]

If anyone ever would go after it, it would be disassembled anyway.

 

[Photon440]

 

[polywideblock]

 

[miller]

Upstairs Hot Rods! Love it! (Wish I had one.) Heck, I'd even go flyboy.

 

[gtxracer]

Many years ago I had a coworker who owned a P-51 Mustang and I had the good fortune to accompany him on a flight to search for a downed plane in the Sierras, as he was a member of the CAP. An experience of a lifetime and what a thrill!
Bob

 

[snakeyes]

 

[snakeyes]

 

[polywideblock]

 

[Dipstick]

T_Bird Ejection

 

[Auggie56]

A Stuka, said to be being restored for flight with the original engine.

 

[Basket case]

where is this plane at?

 

[gtxracer]

Recently there was an airplane crash on a freeway somewhere, that looked like a Stuka. As I remember it had German markings.

 

[Basket case]

go back a few pages....it was a North American T6 painted up like a FW 109