On Tue, 30 May 2006 21:31:56 +0200, Joachim Schmid
wrote:

Charlie Wolf wrote:

The aircraft was partially
filled with salt water but the R1820's just kept on chuggin'.
Aircraft was put in the hanger bay for maintainers to dry out, which
was only partially successful. Corrosion set in (duh!!!) and the A/C
never flew again.

Now I'm wondering why the cleaning work was not done properly. Shurely
rinsing out the a/c would have been cheaper than replacing it.
This occured back in the very early 1970's time frame. It would have
been the same thing as recovering an aircraft from a brief sinking in
slat water. The corrosion control problem on this A/C was just beyond
the "control" part....
Regards,


Joachim