[ARC5] [Milsurplus] Ju-ju

[Tim]

Hi Hue - I had dug into the Lady Be Good story many years ago and found the
crash site on Google Earth.  Somehow I heard that about the time Qaddafy
was deposed the wreckage was picked up and moved to the Benghazi airport.
I found it, in a parking lot behind a building at that airport.   It was
recognizable as B-24 structure, as visible on the GE images.  It then
disappeared from that location some time later; I could not relocate it
around there..

Unfortunately a computer failure here caused my geo bookmarks of those
locations to be lost during a Google Earth software upgrade.
Eastern Libya was/is under the control of anti-gov rebels these days so I
thought maybe it was being used to extort something from the Libyan gov or
the US.  Pure speculation.  But it is probably worth something to
someone..Who knows.
One of my many rabbit holes..haha
Tim
N6CC

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 1:59 PM Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> I have 3 books on the "Lady Be Good" incident plus the original photo
> article in LIFE magazine which i read totally captivated at the age of 9
> years. One of the radios, IIR  was a BC-348 also. All that gear taken still
> worked.
> The large picture book has some wonderful photos and the text goes into
> what happened to the plane. In better times maybe Paul Allen or such could
> have been convinced to pay off some Libyans to get the plane, but
> extraction would have to be done by Libyans, as the country is too unstable
> i think
> for Westerners to to undertake such project. But by now it's just a jumble
> of aluminum. This book also has an interesting photo of a Brit plane with 3
> person crew that got lost on a training flight and made a landing on the
> desert. However before they could be found and rescued they all succumbed
> to heat and thirst. The book i refer to has great photos of the Lady
> inquiry expedition but i have to fault it for uncalled for photos of the
> remains of the crew. That strikes me as just ignorant, sensationalist, and
> insensitive. Many thanks to the author for producing it, kind of his life's
> work, but as the author seems to me not the brightest filament and a more
> discerning editor was called for. When i find these 4 items i will put them
> on Ebay as i really need to move on.
> I still have to wonder what ignorant fate befell other items from the
> plane such as headphones, throat mics, and Command Sets.
> -Hue Miller
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy
>
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