For WWII Aviation enthusiasts

[2fat2fly]

Both are crashed airicraft that still sit where they crashed.

B17F "Black Jack":

http://www.indopacificimages.com/index.php/papua-new-guinea-2/b-17f-black-jack/

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2012/10/pacific-aircraft-wreck-diving-new-guinea-black-jack-b-17-flying-fortress/

The "Gray Ghost":

http://www.stormclimb.com/2011/08/05/the-gray-ghost-b-17-flying-fortress-wreck-papua-new-guinea/

[Brownsfan1]

Thats cool.

[jester3681]

That's pretty slick - one of our favorite day trips with the kids is to go to the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum in Dayton, then hit up Young's Jersey Dairy on the way home for dinner. Lots of slick stuff down there - they just added a space shuttle cabin, and they're close to having the funding to add on - they're building a fourth hanger so the space and Presidential exhibits can be at the main facility, not over at Wright Patt.

[vf1000ride]

And on the flip side, somebody doing something to restore a crashed bird.

http://www.maam.org/p61.html

They dug a P-61 black widow out of the jungle in Irian Jaya, Indonesia back in the late 80's early 90's and have been restoring it ever since. They eventually hope to have it airworthy and actually fly the thing.

[vf1000ride]

and they're close to having the funding to add on - they're building a fourth hanger so the space and Presidential exhibits can be at the main facility, not over at Wright Patt.

That would be very cool. I hate that you only get 30 minutes in the experimental/presidents hanger.

[ReconRat]

My Dad has tracked down a couple of wrecks that nobody knew were there. Working from old military records of the crash. Mostly WW2 single engine fighters. There's a lot of them. He didn't find the ones lost in the Bermuda triangle, but there's an alternate theory that they crashed/ran out of fuel in the Georgia swamp. It's very hard to find aircraft that have crashed there. There's aircraft crashed in the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas that have never been found also.