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Historic Aircraft Recovery and Preservation => War / Service Related Aircraft topics => Topic started by: Russ Matthews on September 03, 2010, 01:18:34 AM
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According to recent articles in the British press, the RAF Museum is planning to recover the wreck of a rare German bomber shot down during the "Battle of Britain."
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/news/article.cfm?headline=W W 2 Bomber on Goodwin Sands
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3122896/Nazi-jet-found-in-sea-off-Deal-Kent.html
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After having been in the ocean for 60-odd years, though ... good luck to them! At least they don't have to worry about it being all crusted over with coral, like a couple of Devastators we all know and love.
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A more detailed website dedicated to the conduct and progress of the RAFM Do-17 project has gone active here...
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/cosford/conservation-centre/dornier-17-conservation-project.cfm
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Thanks for the link - looks like these lads are serious. AND this one is in very shallow water. Lucky for them!
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Yesterday (16 September, 2010) the Do 17 project team posted underwater video of the wreck that was shot during an investigation conducted three months earlier. Check it out here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlBKYXHSuhc
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Fantastick, shame the channel is a mercky old place with low viz most of the time.
70 years since the battle of Britain.
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Update on BBC News Website
Luftwaffe Dornier 17 at Goodwin Sands 'still intact' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12997528)
Not sure if the iplayer content will work outside of UK
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Another update ...
http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/London/news/article.cfm?news_id=405
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"The Royal Air Force Museum has launched today a fundraising campaign to rescue the sole surviving example of the WWII Dornier Do-17 aircraft. "
Sad that there isn't another example of a Flying Pencil around. I suppose that if we had lost the war the situation would be reversed...
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And interesting that this one is going to be displayed "as is," not "restored."
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Update
Weather hits recovery (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22721897)
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This is not going to end well ...
Monty Fowler,
TIGHAR No. 2189 CER
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Godspeed to those working on the recovery, glad to see it will be displayed as-is.
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I am afraid of what is going to occur here.... If they get that aircraft onto the barge even in two pieces it will be a miralce.
You would think that salvage/recovery teams would realize after seeing all the attempts over the last decades, and the delays and disasters that have resulted, that when you are dealing with Mother Nature, you come up with your plan, and the budget for it, then DOUBLE it- to take into account the natural delays and costs that will be encountered.
I too wish them the best of luck, and keep my fingers crossed.
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weather interupts attempt (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22746342)
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postponed for another week? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22752625)
foolish boy forgot the link
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Success (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22846645) :D
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"Believed to be the only intact example of its kind in the world,..."
Gives new meaning to the word intact, but an interesting recovery nonetheless.
amck
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Does seem to indicate that some peices have been left on the sea bed! Wouldn't surprise me either if some of it had been broken off by fishing boats trawling the area. Suppose there's time to excavate the debris field.
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As I watched it hanging from the jig at the side of the barge, I thought "That's going to break." Somehow it didn't.
They had got the engines on the report this morning and are going to get the port outer wing today (I think). Then it's up to RAF Cosford for stabilization.
So good to have a positive result after the Burma Spitfires debacle.
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It was a bit of a risk doing that way but the cost of a aluminium frame was beyond their budget. I was worried too that it would fall apart, like the German Plane retrieved from a Fjord in Norway that broke up. Must find the video for that on. Defiantly not the way to do it.
link (http://www.namdalsavisa.no/Nyhet/article5126536.ece) from a post by Russ in another thread
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Reaches Museum (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22920406)
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Shot down by a Boulton Paul Defiant? How rare is that?
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?feature=related&v=3rXwJtIZtP0 (http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?feature=related&v=3rXwJtIZtP0)
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Update (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-24537367)
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Sprayed with citric acid to halt the corrosion? Now that is interesting.
LTM,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 CER
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Update (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27768464)
Reminds me a bit of the Hunley
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"The work of conserving this unique aircraft for future generations is proceeding slowly, as staff learn just what it takes to turn a piece of 1930s high technology into a display-ready artefact."
That's going to be TIGHAR by the end of the year, because Niku VIII is going to be the one that finds the any-idiot artifact down in the briny deep.
LTM,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 ECSP
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A BBC News update about the ongoing work on this Dornier 17. Looks a lot different with all those barnacles removed. View the short video at this site. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-33088253 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-33088253)