A neat salvage operation story for you cold water divers.

[ScubaSarus]

A bout a Hurricane fighter recently salvaged from a lake in Russia. May have been a lend-lease plane.

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/english/articles/sheppard/hurricane_Z5252/index.htm

Ide love to find that Mustang off Charleston even if it was only a piece or two. Anyone game this summer.

 

[jdelprete]

that link has an astoundingly incredible sonar image of the plane on the bottom. I've never seen one look so good. Probably made better to as the bottom looked pretty flat.

Nice.

 

[CheddarChick]

How cool!!! I wonder sometimes what is in the bottom of our inland lakes....

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Oh man.... That ROCKS!!

 

[Diver Dennis]

The sound of that engine is amazing.

 

[D_B]

Very Cool! .. and if they can get it back to flying status, even better ... although that brings up other considerations like do you want to risk an historic aircraft with a war record, by flying her
Still ... Very Cool!

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

I would restore and fly it. Had they not found it in the lake, it would have just rotted away. Why not fly it? Worst case scenario, they still haven't lost anything, really.

 

[wardric]

Totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[D_B]

Oh, I agree, the place for an aircraft, is in the sky.
no way to describe the difference between seeing an aircraft on display in a museum, and hearing it taxi by on it's way for take off ... Merlin's are such a sweet sound

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Agreed, D_B!