[Milsurplus] Buried NIB WW2 aircraft.

Mon May 8 01:24:44 EDT 2017

Can anyone point to even one example of a buried new crated WW2 aircraft being excavated? 

Burying something that big intact isn't easy and seems pointless to me. 

I actually hope I am dead wrong and that crated P39s and other types await discovery and excavation. 

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>   3. FS:  RS-6 and accessories (Brian Harrison)
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> From: "Michael Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
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> Here's a couple more photos of derelict P-39s, actually P-400s.  These at 
> Port Moresby Papua new Guinea.  More P-39s, and P-63s at Airliners.net.
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> https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipONzPW3H9fCUWLRHsi9elvOlGo2P1a00ILQ7GnI
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> https://photos.google.com/search/_tra_/photo/AF1QipNLN05IsxA6V366VSRBDW6GIOuGCL5C_RFKNAav 
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> From: "Michael Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
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>> Here's a couple more photos of derelict P-39s, actually P-400s.  These at 
>> Port Moresby Papua new Guinea.  More P-39s, and P-63s at Airliners.net.
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> https://goo.gl/photos/ZvhFB4VbQ2QPi9NA9
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> https://goo.gl/photos/qgEQ5Tzi2ywAve1v9
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> From: Brian Harrison <briankn4r at gmail.com>
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>    spyradios at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Milsurplus] FS:  RS-6 and accessories
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> For Sale - RS-6 complete with accessories
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> It is working (but has a leaky electrolytic in the RA-6 unit which needs replacing)
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> info and history: http://cryptomuseum.com/spy/rs6/index.htm <http://cryptomuseum.com/spy/rs6/index.htm>
> also great page here: http://www.n6cc.com/the-rs-6-radio-set <http://www.n6cc.com/the-rs-6-radio-set>
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> Actual picts of my units are here:
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> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwRnzEZQyvxCeXNqQllra2EwQ0k <https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwRnzEZQyvxCeXNqQllra2EwQ0k>
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> Asking $500 for everything as is plus actual shipping
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> Tnx and all the best,
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> brian
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> Thank you
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> Date: Sun, 7 May 2017 17:41:04 -0500
> From: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
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> Subject: [Milsurplus] R1155: The Screw Gremlins Defeated!
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> I post this to give hope and encouragement to
> my fellow Brothers of the Molten Solder.
> We all know of the dread Screw Gremlins who,
> among other vile treacheries, immediately make-off
> with any screw dropped from the bench during a repair.  
> 
> I removed the logging scale from the front of the R1155
> to clean behind it.  It is held in place by two miniscule
> screws- about 2mm by 3mm.  
> Pictured next to the "70" marking.  They are most tiny.
> https://goo.gl/photos/5XYgg4A3SeWAoBwe7
> I placed a towel under the area to catch any dropped 
> screws before removing the scale.  
> Of course, I dropped one.
> It struck something- perhaps my little finger, bounded
> at an angle, missed the towel completely and decended
> into the dark, mysterious, howling abyss of the barn
> floor under my bench.
> 
> I don't know if many of you have spent any quality time
> with your nose on a dirty barn floor, going inch by
> hopeless inch searching, hoping to fend-off the 
> Screw Gremlins this time.  Doing it with 60-year-old
> joints adds a special something to the experence.
> I did not find it.
> 
> And herein is the hope:  
> I discovered that Screw Gremlins
> are afraid of the sound of a big shop vacuum!
> Emptied the vac completely.
> Cleared the floor of "stuff" for 3-feet around the 
> drop point and vacuumed the area inch-by-inch,
> not missing places, never seeing the errent screw.  
> Then took the vac out to a flat surface and 
> a sheet of white plastic.  Poured about two
> tablespoons of gunk each time and started hand
> sifting.  On the third dump, "saint's be praised!"
> https://goo.gl/photos/wT2dg4LxSyHcf6nC7
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> The moral of the story:  The Screw Gremlins can
> be beaten, and sometimes it's good if "you suck."
> 
> 73 OM DE Dave AB5S
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> Dave, i know the routine: you have the side of your head flat to the floor, and you look or anomalies on the surface, wondering if that's just a discoloration or
> a shadow or what?  The traveling screws, like rodents, have an ability to seek out the cleverest hiding places. 
> I like your solution technique!
> Proves again that altho we're not as fast as the gremlins, we can win by outthinking them, or just outlasting them.
> -Hue 
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