bringing her home

[bad toad]

http://community.webshots.com/album/550889403zOCzeJ
thought id share these i poached off of one of the recovery sites im on!!!
60 years this ole girls been in the swamp!! best veiwed in slideshow 2sec intervals loads o piccys!!!

[kitkatman]

i know you ain't cut the grass for a week or two, but how the fuck did you miss that :D

[Friar Tuck]

I would love to know the story behind that!

Jeezus! Swamps! Snakes! know way woyuld you get me out there!

[kitkatman]

I would love to know the story behind that!

Jeezus! Swamps! Snakes! know way woyuld you get me out there!
helicopter............ :D

[pyro]

Just had a quick look, amazing, is it a B25? (no not the BSA...)

[Kingo]

It's a B17 (Flying Fortress) WW11 American Bomber

[Mrs Reject]

Amazing, it poses all kinds of questions like what happened to the crew? I didn't know helicopters could lift something that size!!! Just imagine the conditions though, the humidity, the leeches, the snakes - yuk. I wonder if they found any bones.

[Kingo]

I would think the crew would have survived the belly landing, because there was very little damage done to the plane when it landed, but what happened after is anyone's guess.

[minxy]

I find pictures like that really spooky. Ship wrecks too. *shudder* :o

[Astroid]

i found the story of it after a bit of googleing

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-2446.html

this expains it all upto present day

oh its a B-17E Serial Number 41-2446 (aka 'The Swamp Ghost')

[Mrs Reject]

It's great to know the crew survived ok :) Thanks.

[Grav]

Cheers for that Toad, good post mate. :)

[devon-tony]

love that sort of thing, used to do a lot of photography round desrted buildings, hospitals etc

there was a great UK site about a place I beleive in the telford area

origiannly a huge stately home owned by an eccentric millionaire, when the place was built folk lore said that he had a large glass roofed ball room with an underground river to access it built under the lake

these guys found it, broke in and got some cracking photographs,

the brain section of runwell was all deserted and abandoned for years, yet when we got in there to photograph it years ago, there was still things in jars, and all the medical notes etc still laying around

wierdest I have ever seen was a big old building all boarded up, was convertedto a kids nursery and day care centre, had been closed for months, but inside there was still coats on the hooks, bags laying around and half done drawings!!


its still one of my dreams to go to the big fields of planes in the USA, the big graveyards

[Blue]

its still one of my dreams to go to the big fields of planes in the USA, the big graveyards

I've been past the huge graveyard in the Mojave, but didn't have time to stop and get closer or in to it (it is possible, apparently). Next time... :)

[slob]

cool Thread BT .. loved the photo's

[bad toad]

on a note on the (swamp ghost) she,s still on the barge waiting to head back home!! it appears that the ghost has a somewhat chequered past her last flight might not be as it seems!!!! theres abit of a wrangle going on over it!!!! have pm,d the guy who recovered her! as he made the above comments!
have a look at this site for a good read!!! these guys put a lot of guys to rest!! http://www.bentprop.org/

[krammer]

if you go to the IWM duxford you can see the incredible restoration work they do there. at the moment they are rebuilding a beaufighter to flying condition, this aircraft (or what was left of it) was found in the jungle in the far east.

[bad toad]

been there a few times! one of my favorite places. another is the mosquito museum in london there rebuilding there too!! will find the link later!

[krammer]

been to the flying legends air show half a dozen times, just incredible to hear the engines. sadly, also witnessed a couple of fatal accidents there as well. not being callous but every time these irreplacable aircraft have been lost through pilot error or putting it bluntly showing off. i don't think there will be another mosquito in the air again though sadly................

[bad toad]

at the moment it might a very big might just get one flyable! but im very sceptical!!!

[krammer]

at the moment it might a very big might just get one flyable! but im very sceptical!!!...................ever see the vulcan fly? fuck me that's some machine!! but for the sake of a measly couple of million that too looks like staying grounded :(

[kitkatman]

...................ever see the vulcan fly? fuck me that's some machine!! but for the sake of a measly couple of million that too looks like staying grounded :(
i see a vulcan at a southend airshow, fuck me, what a noise, the ground shook and so did my arse, bet that scared the shyte out of the argies :D , just majical and mystical to see something of that size in the air........very graceful :D

[Dougie]

Vulcans,now yer talking!Saw one running fast and low (4-500 knots,about 400ft) over Broadford in Skye near 30 years ago,that was really awe inspiring!Scared the crap out the tourists!

[krammer]

i see a vulcan at a southend airshow, fuck me, what a noise, the ground shook and so did my arse, bet that scared the shyte out of the argies :D , just majical and mystical to see something of that size in the air........very graceful :D that was XH558 kk the last airworthy vulcan. it's now in a hanger in bruntingthorpe but the cash has run out to get it in the air again. it was the only aircraft that would get the foreign aircrews outside to watch the dislay at airshows. it's scandalous really that a machine that helped to keep the peace during the cold war could end up on the display circuit in the states because the money can't be found here.

[Dougie]

Used to see Vulcans at Leuchars air display,the pilots used to throw 'em around like fighters. :D

[bad toad]

saw one fly at the last bournmouth airshow and yep scared the ****e outta me wer,nt expecting that scream as it banked!!! anyway listed below is the mozzy link!!!
http://www.dehavillandmusuem.co.uk/location.html

[kitkatman]

that was XH558 kk the last airworthy vulcan. it's now in a hanger in bruntingthorpe but the cash has run out to get it in the air again. it was the only aircraft that would get the foreign aircrews outside to watch the dislay at airshows. it's scandalous really that a machine that helped to keep the peace during the cold war could end up on the display circuit in the states because the money can't be found here.
typical :mad: .................i am not surpised about the foreign aircrew, i for one wold'nt want that thing dropping a golden egg on my house :D

[krammer]

saw one fly at the last bournmouth airshow and yep scared the ****e outta me wer,nt expecting that scream as it banked!!! anyway listed below is the mozzy link!!!
http://www.dehavillandmusuem.co.uk/location.html der linken ist nein worken :)

[Dougie]

typical :mad: .................i am not surpised about the foreign aircrew, i for one wold'nt want that thing dropping a golden egg on my house :D
East Fortune Museum of Flight have one of the Vulcans from the Falklands Black Buck missions.They also have a Blue Steel nuclear stand-off missile,and a Blue Streak IRBM.Well worth a visit.

[bad toad]

der linken ist nein worken :)
ok will see what i fecked up!!! :D

[kitkatman]

East Fortune Museum of Flight have one of the Vulcans from the Falklands Black Buck missions.They also have a Blue Steel nuclear stand-off missile,and a Blue Streak IRBM.Well worth a visit.
i wonder if i could purchase the nuke missile to give to the iranians and then show them first hand what a mess they make

[Dougie]

Alas,they have no warheads.... :(

[kitkatman]

Alas,they have no warheads.... :(
bollocks........... :D

[bad toad]

http://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk/
try this instead!!! :o