More at:
The irony of the British complaining about Egyptians looting historical items of British national interest is great here.
Cool! Heck of a thing though to know you survived the crash but won’t survive much longer. I hope they find the pilot, he cannot be far away.
“It is a quite incredible time capsule, the aviation equivalent of Tutankhamun’s Tomb.”
Complete BS. We know everything about these planes: how they were made, when they were made, who made them, who flew them, why they flew them, what they cost, etc. No one need learn a dead language - like Egyptian hieroglyphics - to know all about this plane.
Wow, just think!
If the MB can backwards Engineer that thing, they might be able to put together a credible Air Force!
Reminds me when I was in the 8th grade, the Junior Reporter magazine carried a story we read in class about the discovery of The Lady be Good in the Libyan Desert. A B 24 returning from Ploesti, lost and out of gas. Found in pristine shape, even its 50s could still function.
ping
Now we know what happened to Sky Captains P-40.
Aviation and Aerospace ping
Please ping me to aviation and aerospace articles. Thank you.
If you want added to or removed from this ping list, please contact EveningStar or Paleo Conservative.
There’s another article about it it today’s National Post- it was a P-40 and they think it may have been flown by a Canadian pilot who survived the crash:
A Second World War fighter plane, just discovered in the Egyptian desert 70 years after it was crash-landed there by its British pilot, is generating excitement among vintage aircraft experts in Canada who suspect the long-buried Kittyhawk P-40 — literally unearthed from the sands of time — was once flown by one of this country’s great aces in the air battles of North Africa: Saskatchewan-born James “Stocky” Edwards, now 90 and living in Comox, B.C.
Edwards is, in fact, considered to be the “highest scoring” living fighter ace in Canada, credited with 19 “confirmed kills” and many additional damaged and destroyed enemy aircraft on the ground.