discussion Fighter plane desert find

[Guest]

I don't know if anyone has posted this but having just seen it I thought I would put the link here.

A potentially good dio for a recreation?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142300/Crashed-plane-Second-World-War-pilot-Dennis-Copping-discovered-Sahara-desert.html

 

[Alan 45]

One for Si (eddisolo ) me thinks

I wonder how many more things like this are just waiting to be found ?

Thanks for sharing

 

[Gern]

The general concensus of the comments that follow the article indicate that it's a hoax ......

if that's true, it's pretty cruel to any surviving members of that pilot's family.

Gern

 

[Guest]

This story was reported by the mail back mid year, it was posted on here if I remember.

*edit*

Here you go .....

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/threads/p-40-discovered-in-the-sahara.15908/

 

[Ian M]

Nah! that's one of Ron's diorama's LOL.

Ian M

 

[Gern]

Nah! that's one of Ron's diorama's LOL.Ian M

Yeah! He spent AGES looking for a P40 at Cosford, and he promised us a dio of it crashed!

Gern

 

[ojays]

Shades of the Lady Be Good B24 find!

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[Vaughan]

Found this on youTube it's no hoax.

 

[ojays]

Having lived and worked in the middle east, I can attest to how quickly the shifting sands can cover & uncover anything out there.

I actually found the desert beautiful, thought provoking and very photogenic, however it could turn without warning, very much like the sea really!

I wonder just how much is still to be discovered out there!

Gregg

 

[flyjoe180]

It was not a hoax. The aircraft has since been moved and negotiations are under way to have it returned to the UK for display at Hendon.

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbird-news/saharas-p-40-kittyhawk-update.html

So far as I know, authorities found a body less than three miles from the wreckage but have not bothered to take DNA tests to confirm whether or not it is F/S Copping.

 

[spanner570]

Yeah! He spent AGES looking for a P40 at Cosford, and he promised us a dio of it crashed!Gern

Dave, and I got a 1/48 one didn't I?

I'm doing a 1/144 VII-C U-Boat giving it some biffters in Mid Atlantic at the minute.....but when that's finished, I'm going to ''Ave a bash' at this P-40 wreck.