floatplane - taking off frozen lake

PBY and a B24 props will both clear the ground in such a
gear up landing. But a B17 will have the props destroyed,
thus there would be no continued attempt to fly in a B17.

Google for "greenland wwii airplane" returns...
WWII Plane Emerges From Ice to Fly Again News article: WWII
Plane Emerges From Ice to Fly Again. ... By the time he got
to Greenland, accumulated snow and ice had squashed the
plane flat. ...
www.stelzriede.com/ms/html/sub/mshwma20.htm - 5k -
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Flight-History.com - Your Online Aviation Community During
the summer of 1942, one of World War II's most fascinating
sagas took place on the icy slopes of Greenland. A flight of
World War II airplanes were ...
http://www.flight-history.com/arch/s...p?contentID=57
- 10k - Cached - Similar pages


Wooden airplane kits: Multiple Engine Aircraft,hobby
world,hobby ... WWII Aeroplanes Series. Instructions: ...
airplanes, aeroplanes, wwi, ww1, wwii, ww2, wooden airplane
kits, models, guillo Wing span:, sterling, estes, ...
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SSDB: Needs More Cowbell I had orders for Greenland.
Broadcasters never stayed long in a plum stateside ... The
game's plot involved most of the surviving privately owned
WWII ...
www.sgtstryker.com/weblog/archives/004534.php - 32k -
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ALONG THE FROZEN WATERFRONT (WWII IN THE ARCTIC) The
operations in Greenland were kept secret; crewmembers were
neither ... from Comanche Bay and was lost in a crevasse
near the airplane with his sled. ...
www.jacksjoint.com/frozen.htm - 11k - Cached - Similar
pages


Wwii Aircraft - Aircraft Wwii Aircraft : A World War II
fighter pilot is reunited with his Hurricane aircraft. ...
WWII Greenland and Patrol Honored (Reg Req'd) ...
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The Glacier Girl Gazette - Online News about Glacier Girl
and the ... In 1992, the airplane was nothing more than a
collection of aircraft parts that had just been rescued from
under the Greenland ice cap after 50 years. ...
www.thelostsquadron.com/gazette/ - 9k - Dec 6, 2005 -
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P-38 Lesson Plan - The P-38 Lightning ... Labrador to Bluie
West One (Greenland), to Reykjavik, Iceland, and finally to
.... Lance C. Wade. * Flew a P-38 Lightning for all or part
of WWII ...
www.p38lessonplan.com/p-38H.html - 22k - Cached -
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and for "greenland wwii airplane b24 ice cap"

Warbird Alley: B-29 Superfortress
Consolidated B-24 Liberator · Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
.... which was abandoned
on a Greenland ice cap after an emergency landing nearly 50
years ago. ...
www.warbirdalley.com/b29.htm - 26k - Cached - Similar pages

AirPirates
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In addition they flew throughout New Guinea to inspect WWII
aircraft including
.... was recovered from the Greenland Ice Cap by Gary
Larkins, Greg Winschell, ...
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AirPirates
Searching for historic WWII aircraft in the Solomon
Islands and finding Zeros,
... Flying Fortress B-17E "My Gal Sal" from the ice cap
and its restoration. ...
www.airpirates.com/gallery/
albums.php?set_albumListPage=2 - 41k - Cached - Similar
pages

NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION - NATIONAL FLIGHT LOG -
SQUADRONS
The new squadron's home base was at Narsarssuak, Greenland,
code name Bluie ...
Eighty-five per cent of the island is covered with a great
ice cap of ...
www.naval-air.org/flightlog/squadrons/vp-6.htm - 30k -
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MAAM Member's Update -- February 2003
Brad piloted one of the P-38's that landed on the Greenland
ice cap during the
ferry flight ... AIRPLANE RIDES: These are given all three
days of the event. ...
www.maam.org/newsletters/feb03/feb03news.html - 37k -
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Alaska B-17 Recovery
Of particular interest were a Lockheed P-38 Lightning,
Consolidated B-24 ...
feet into the Greenland Ice Cap, where Larkins spent 10 days
dissassembling, ...


"Jose" wrote in message
m...
| after all, there is a certain amount of
| noticeable deceleration when you come to a stop from
100mph or so.
|
| Given that there was an upslope and a downslope, I tend to
agree.
| However, if it were fairly flat, and the aircraft settled
gently (a
| greaser landing) and the props cleared the ground, I
suppose it might
| not be noticed from certain perspectives, especially with
sufficient
| padded winter clothing, a little turbulence, and a lot of
noise while
| flying.
|
| Jose
| --
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whom to love.
| for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

I'm a bonehead but not that big a bonehead. One accident a day is fine
by me.

Reindeer definitely won that one

Flyingmonk wrote:
Maule Driver wrote:

That's what caught my eye. I watched a bush float operation flying off
the French River in Ontario about 35 years ago. A Stinson, a Cub, a
Widgeon (maybe not theirs), probably some Cessnas.


I haven't had the pleasure of seeing a float plane in person yet, only
in videos. Anyways, this http://mhs.ryjones.org/Videos/bush-pilot.wmv
isn't you and your Maule trying to pickup those hunters is it? :)

("Maule Driver" wrote)
I'm a bonehead but not that big a bonehead. One accident a day is fine
by me.


http://mhs.ryjones.org/Videos/bush-pilot.wmv

What's that punchline? ...at least we made it farther than last year.


Montblack
I was looking for reindeer to be strapped on to the wings.