On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:36:33 GMT, "Jay Honeck" wrote:

... Perhaps it's because aviation is still so new, but in 500 years people will
be surely be cursing us for so casually discarding much of the early legacy
of flight.

I belong to The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR)
http://www.tighar.org.

For the last 16 years, TIGHAR's work has been dominated by trying to
find evidence to back their theory of where Amelia Earhart and Fred
Noonan ended up. But the organization is dedicated to the larger
task of making sure that historic aircraft "escape the teeth of time and
the hands of mistaken zeal" http://tighar.org/Projects/Histpres/HistPres.html.

In 2004, TIGHAR did a survey of five WW II wrecks in the Jaluit lagoon:
http://tighar.org/Projects/Devastator/devdescrip.htm.

There are links from TIGHAR's website to other preservation groups.

Marty