Thu 17 Apr 2008
When I was a kid I was fascinated by the prop-driven war planes of WWII. Back then I filled a sketch book with drawings of those aircraft but now the internet provides grist for that particular mill:
Brutal-Looking Airplanes at 2blowhards.
Creamer’s Dream from Shorpy.
More than 60 years ago six P-38 Lightnings and two B-17 bombers left Presque Isle, Maine, headed for England. They never made it; instead all eight plans set down on an ice cap in Greenland. Fifty years later a group of aviation enthusiasts decided to locate the ‘Lost Squadron’ and recover one of the P-38s - from under the 25 stories of ice that had buried the planes in the intervening years…
That P-38, now dubbed ‘Glacier Girl,’ was full restored and returned to the sky.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
heh…I’m still fascinated with that stuff too. This occasionally manifests itself by the building of 1/72 scale model warbirds or visits to air shows and aviation museums.
Tops so far — climbing aboard a Heinkel 111 at an air show in NY and the pilgrimage to the RAF Museum at Hendon.
Chocks away!
April 17th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I’d love to get to the RAF museum (I did get to see the Imperial War Museum a decade or so ago.)
There’s a couple of decent air museums stateside as well. One in Tucson, a couple ’round here.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Stop speaking to my person!!!
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