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Dave.
07-05-10, 01:44 AM
Right.. someone please help me, as its been on my mind and my Dads for hours now...

Back in the 70's or thereabouts, their was a film/documentary made about a team of experts who traced & found a B32 or similar bomber plane abandoned in the Arctic since WW2, they then set about restoring the plane out in the arctic hoping to fly it out of there for the first time since WW2, however when they tried to take off the plane caught fire and was destroyed.

I seem to remember them filling a plane's tyres with propane, One of the team called Rick dying at the end of the project, and also the plane they were restoring, which was silver and black and was nicknamed after a bird of some sort

Can anyone shed any light on this? :(
Dave.
18-05-10, 07:32 PM
Anyone?
CoolTiger
18-05-10, 07:35 PM
chicken run ?
L14MNP
18-05-10, 07:37 PM
[South Park] Mr, you better take your gay porn and walk right out that door. [/South park]
CoolTiger
18-05-10, 08:26 PM
on a serious but ironic note is it this your adter?
Nova - B-29: Frozen in Time
Jack
18-05-10, 08:26 PM
You mean the B29 Kee Bird?
Dave.
18-05-10, 09:49 PM
on a serious but ironic note is it this your adter?
Nova - B-29: Frozen in Time


You mean the B29 Kee Bird?

Thats the one! Been on ym mind for weeks and it was ******* me off! :d
Cheers Adam & Jack, +rep coming your way :thumb:
mowgli
18-05-10, 09:53 PM
it has been on history or geographic fairly recently
Jack
18-05-10, 11:18 PM
Its a shame. Although part of me thinks if they hadn't rushed to fly it home (i.e. spent their time recovering it to harder ground) it would still be around today. Mind you, better that it burnt out on the ground than mid-flight.

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/6566806.jpg

Oops

http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/3407299.jpg

http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/forums/attachments/warbirds/3197d1237062707-recent-kee-bird-picture-116-b29-greenland.jpg

Fire from the rear fuel tank spilling fuel all over the makeshift rear APU gutted it out killed it. Avoidable, but nobody seemed to realised the aircraft would be so bouncy at takeoff. Durr, its unladen and on an uneven runway...

AFAIK there's talk of recovering some of the parts - the mid section, engines and wings are relatively unscathed - although I think most of it sank when the lake melted a while back.