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B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 20 Feb 2011, 21:40
by bismarck
I have just come across this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdFo9Yo0LI
It is in six parts of about 9 minutes each.
Don't know if someone already knows this unbelievable story, completely new for me.
Giorgio
Re: B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 21 Feb 2011, 05:07
by btaylo24
Wish they would of left it alone after watching that....
Re: B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 21 Feb 2011, 18:04
by maddog65
I agree. Also if they wouldn't have been in so much of a rush and really checked the aircraft out they might have seen some other potential problems.
Re: B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 21 Feb 2011, 18:55
by tango234
I can't say I have very much sympathy for the people who restored that beauty-it caught fire after a jury rigged fuel line leaked fuel in the fuselage?? Surely thats fairly basic when your checking through the aircraft.
I hate to see a plane like that going up in flames, but if it had to go, I'm glad it went on the ground, if that had happened in the air those inside would have been killed.
Re: B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 22 Feb 2011, 02:25
by Kurosaki
There was a good story/something similar (P-38) 'resucue' in the polar regions (Greenland perhaps?). Love this kind of stuff..thanks for posting.
Re: B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 22 Feb 2011, 17:21
by delbydoo
Re: B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 22 Feb 2011, 19:19
by bismarck
Re: B-29 Frozen in time
Posted: 23 Feb 2011, 03:53
by Kurosaki
270 ft of ice...just to bring her back. Quite an epic rescue!
