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Shifting sands reveal World War Two fighter plane lost for 65 years
Daily Mail ^
| 15th November 2007
| Daily Mail staff
Posted on 11/14/2007 6:02:57 PM PST by PotatoHeadMick
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To: PotatoHeadMick
21
posted on
11/14/2007 7:20:48 PM PST
by
iowamark
To: Virginia Ridgerunner; PotatoHeadMick
don’t give me a P-38
the props, they counter-rotate
they’re scattered & sittin’
from Burma to Britain
don’t give me a P-38
NO
give me operations
way out on some lonely atoll
for I am too young to die
I just wanna grow old
22
posted on
11/14/2007 7:27:51 PM PST
by
tlb
To: PotatoHeadMick
Reminds me of one of my favorite Twilight Zones.
23
posted on
11/14/2007 7:27:59 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
To: PotatoHeadMick
For Free Republic, use this template - replace the brackets with < and >:
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posted on
11/14/2007 7:35:39 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
To: P.O.E.
25
posted on
11/14/2007 7:49:03 PM PST
by
DAC22
To: Max in Utah
Not the funnest plane to bail out of, I have read. The tail bar caught ejecting pilots, apparently.
To: RinaseaofDs
From one show on the P-38, the pilots were told to crawl out on the wing, and fall off on the other side on an engine to avoid the that particular problem.
The former Lightning pilot relating that tidbit said he was fortunate in never having to perform that method of egress in flight.
To: namsman
28
posted on
11/14/2007 8:04:06 PM PST
by
SW6906
(6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
To: mkjessup
And of course it was a team of P-38 fighters that took out Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, just our way of saying sayonara Isoroku, and thanks."Pop goes the weasel."
To: PotatoHeadMick
To: PotatoHeadMick
31
posted on
11/14/2007 8:40:43 PM PST
by
bajabaja
To: hinckley buzzard
And of course it was a team of P-38 fighters that took out Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, just our way of saying sayonara Isoroku, and thanks.
"Pop goes the weasel."
You got it. What a shame that our national leadership in this current day and age lacks the stones to do the same thing when it comes to rogue scumbags like Iran's Ahmadinejad, Venezuela's lil fat Castro aka Hugo Chavez, etc.
They've been up there in the wild blue yonder, all we needed was the go-ahead from our compassionate conservative President.
32
posted on
11/15/2007 1:44:15 AM PST
by
mkjessup
To: mkjessup
I believe it was a U-2 that provided the U.S. with proof of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 62.The high altitude U-2 photos lacked the detail to definitively prove that the Soviets were installing missiles in Cuba. The definitive proof was provided by Marine Corps and Navy pilots flying low level missions in RF-8s. The Cubans also shot down a U-2 killing Rudolph Anderson
To: A.A. Cunningham
34
posted on
11/15/2007 4:53:13 AM PST
by
sargunner
(RIP Tonk)
To: tlb
And don't give me a P-39
with the engine crammed way back behind
it will bump
it will roll
it will dig a big hole
don't give me a P-39
To: mkjessup
Kelly Johnson went on to design the famous U-2 reconnisance plane, which provided the U.S. with the capability to overfly the Soviet Union in the late 1950s with near impunity (although the late Francis Gary Powers might take issue with that claim), and I believe it was a U-2 that provided the U.S. with proof of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 62.Don't forget that it was also Kelly Johnson and "The Skunk Works" that also designed the SR-71, and many other "black ops" aircraft, most of which we've never heard of.
My uncle (an aeronautical engineer with McDonnell/Douglass and later Boeing knew Kelly Johnson, and he was in awe of the man.
Mark
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posted on
11/15/2007 5:16:30 AM PST
by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: PotatoHeadMick
Was this not the plane depicted in the movie and book “The Flight of the Phoenix?” In this movie, travelers crashed their P-38 in the desert and finally made it out by building a new plane out of one of the “booms”.
37
posted on
11/15/2007 5:26:23 AM PST
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: PotatoHeadMick
How does one post pictures?
One has to be logged in first
38
posted on
11/15/2007 6:37:04 AM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom)
To: Drawsing
I think that was a cargo plane the Fairchild C-82 Packet, a twin-engined high-wing, twin boom, twin-tailed tactical freighter and troop transport. Total of 220 built.
39
posted on
11/15/2007 7:36:14 PM PST
by
DMZFrank
To: mkjessup
It will most likely end up at Duxford in the UK.
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posted on
11/17/2007 10:02:07 AM PST
by
Tommyjo
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