from the escape from the south american natives to the clipper ship sea plane
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark has some great planes and cars
from the escape from the south american natives to the clipper ship sea plane
Glacier Girl, a P-38 of the "Lost Squadron" found 200 plus feet below the ice in Greenland
the Lost Squadron - two World War II Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers and six Lockheed P-38 Lightnings.
The squadron was forced to land on the Greenland ice cap on July 15, 1942 after hours of flying in bad weather and running low on fuel. Epps' adventure began as a lark when he was admiring a customer's new Learjet and the customer responded, "What I really want is a P-38". Epps certainly knew where six P-38 Lightnings were located so he joined forces with a friend and two airline pilots who already had the search and salvage rights from the Danish government.
http://www.eppsaviation.com/about-us_the-lost-squadron.php
The following story, originally published in the January 1993 issue of Air & Space/ Smithsonian,recounts adventures during the second leg of the journey, a 22-year slog through recovery and restoration that couldn’t have been completed without the ingenuity, stamina, and fortune of a Roy Shoffner, a Kentucky businessman, named the P-38 “Glacier Girl” and began to plan the completion of its mission.
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/FEATURE-glaciergirl-backstory.html#
Fifty years later, in 1992, the plane was brought to the surface by members of the Greenland Expedition Society after years of searching and excavation. The aircraft was eventually transported to Middlesboro, Kentucky, where it was restored to flying condition. The excavation of Glacier Girl was documented in an episode of The History Channel's "Mega Movers" series, titled "Extreme Aircraft Recovery".
On 22 June 2007 Glacier Girl departed Teterboro Airport, New Jersey in an attempt to fly across the Atlantic Ocean to Duxford, England to complete the flight it had begun sixty-five years earlier. On 28 June, however, a coolant leak in the #2 (right) engine grounded the plane in Goose Bay, Labrador.
On July 22 2007 repairs were completed in Labrador, which included installation of two re-manufactured Allison engines. Glacier Girl returned to the U.S. on July 23, and can now be seen at air shows in the USA.
In 2007 Glacier Girl was sold to Lewis Energy's CEO, Rodney Lewis.
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Greg Jones takes astonishingly vivid and crisp HDR photos of cars and aircraft, from WW2 bombers to space shuttles, here is a sample
as the last image tells you, making just one image in HDR is the result of using multiple bracketed shots processed in Lightroom, Photomatix, Photoshop, Noiseware and Topaz Adjust in various proportions.
for more, and each is accompanied by a write up of it's location and history: http://www.bigpixelpushing.com/journal
Sherman tank on the reef around Saipan, still on watch, still covering the troops advancing on the beach
another Sherman on Peleliu Island http://wolife.tumblr.com/post/53431643207/world-war-2-relicspeleliu-island-palau
