Victor Fraenckel wrote:
> Bob Axtell wrote:
>   
>> In fact the expedition failed because the airplanes were buried 300 feet 
>> deep in new icepack. So much
>> for GW.
>>     
>
> Not quite true. See:
> http://www.thelostsquadron.com/
>
> This recovery was documented on a (I think) Discovery Channel show several years ago and as the link shows at least one of the planes, a P-38 Lightening, was recovered from a depth of 268 feet of ice. 268 feet since 1942 is 4.2 feet per year.
>
>   
That rates a "not quite true"? The intention was to recover the whole 
group of planes. Taking one apart and dragging it 300 feet then taking 
12 years for it to get reassembled doesn't sound
like a success....

--Bob


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