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Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Originally Posted by john70t
More "found" stories here: Abandoned Plane Wrecks of the North
There is a sad documentary about one dedicated guy who worked like heck for two years in Greenland to get the B-29"Kee Bird" back in the air, only to have a disaster upon takeoff. |
It was their stupidity that cost them the airplane. In a rush to get going they had the ground power unit in the back of the aircraft catch fire, which then set the entire airplane on fire and everything was lost. They then lost (simply left behind) a trove of other spares and equipment, not to mention the remains of the airplane that was still restoreable from the tail forwards.
I know a couple of people who were on the expedition and they were ready to strangle the idiot in charge. In the end a lot of us wish they had as it cost the world a flyable B-29.
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