From: Mark B. Anderson (mark@aasurplus.ca)
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 08:58:30 PST
Ok my turn for plane stories.
I live across from an old air base which was used to train allied pilots in
the 1940's When the base closed they gave everybody who wanted a plane got
one. We got two and used them for chicken coups. My father then decided he
did not want them anymore and buried them in our backyard. Now this was what
I was told and it was before I was born. BUT I still live on the same land
and when we started to build my house we dig right into a TIGER MOTH I have
pieces all over my yard now from one of the planes and have never found the
second. My dad is still alive and can show me right were the second plane is
buried but I'm not going to try to dig it up as there was not much left of
the first one so I'm assuming the same with the second.
OK that's my plane story for 2002. So anyone need any parts for a TIGER MOTH
they can come get them. Since they were mostly canvass only parts of the
frame are left.
Cheers,
Mark Anderson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Orintz" <orintz@hal3000.cx>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] B-17 History ?
> Along a similar line was the Fairchild (I believe) recovered from under
the
> snow, during Byrds second Antarctic expedition (1934 if I remember).
> Interesting to note because it became the first plane to fly over the
south
> pole when Byrd was overcome by Carbon Monoxide in his camp at the South
> Pole. The fellow who recovered the plane had done so in secret and when he
> heard Byrd needed to be evacuated he decided to come to the rescue, he
beat
> the official plane to the south pole due to the first plane breaking a ski
> on takeoff, thus needing repairs.When he arrived at Byrds camp Byrd told
him
> "you are not my pilot , and that is not my plane" and made him turn around
> and go back, while Byrd waited there for his "official" plane to
arrive.You
> can read more in With Byrd at the bottom of the world by Greg Vaughn.
Anyhow
> I just thought I would pass that lost-plane-under-the-ice story as well.
>
> Orintz
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Recovry4x4@aol.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 8:05 AM
> Subject: [MV] B-17 History ?
>
>
> > Matbe there is a better list to ask but since I belong to thos one, here
> > goes. I had heard a story a few years back, maybe more, about a group
> > locating 5 B-17s under a bunch of ice in maybe Greenland. Probably an
> urban
> > legend but the tale was told of the group core drilling down to the
> aircraft,
> > dissassembling them, raising them and flying them off the ice. Can
anybody
> > confirm or deny if there is any thuth to this? Anybody have any
documented
> > stories about any kind of incredible finds like this? Can't pass up a
> > ressurection story!
> >
> > Kenneth Engle
> > Loxahatchee, FL U.S.A.
> > AM General M-35A2 w/w
> > Fruehauf M105A1
> > MVPA #24371
> > http://hometown.aol.com/recovry4x4/myhomepage/photo.html
> >
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