'Glacier Girl' P-38 Lightning recovered from Greenland Ice

[Phil Perry]

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[ClintonB]

Is there another link Phil, this one seems to be failing on both.

 

i like P38’s

 

 

[bexrbetter]

Glacier Girl - Wikipedia

[ClintonB]

Thanks Phil for your link on this one. Now remember watching a Doco on this when they bored down with the water to look at it for the first time. What an awesome find. How much more does the ice hide from us.

 

 

[Jaba-who]

I went to a lecture by one of the team who extracted glacier girl at the 2014 Oshkosh. Was a very informative lecture and lots of great photos and videos etc.

 

The thing I found most memorable was that the aircraft was basically ground to bits by the glacial movements. He said they recovered only one component in the entire aircraft that did not have damage from being ground along by the glacier.

 

I forget the exact distance but I Think it was something like 200 metres or 200 ft laterally from where it had started and the movement took its toll on every part of the aircraft.

 

 

[facthunter]

Yes , It would generally crush things as it does even when a steel ship gets trapped in sea ice. Nev