Got a source for that?
Here’s a good one:
http://p38assn.org/glacier-girl.htm
And here’s the google with MULTIPLE articles about the topic:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GZEZ_en-GBUS287US287&q=p38+lost+squadron+greenland+ice
Oops, not 250 years, 250 FEET of ice.
Now, what is the assumption on how many feet/year that ice layers form?
If it’s inches, those planes traveled back in time THOUSANDS of years.
I bet the “ape men” were scared shtless.
http://www.b-29s-over-korea.com/lost_squadron/lost_squadron.html
“Several years later when treasure hunters arrived they found all the planes had vanished. No one saw them for almost 40 years. In 1981 A pilot taxied his Lear Jet up to Pat Epp’s hangar, and Epps commented what a beautiful airplane. The pilot replied “ yes, but I have always wanted a P-38”.
Epps called his friend Richard Taylor and asked was he ready to make a trip to Greenland. They formed the Greenland Expedition Society and headed to Greenland to retrieve the aircraft. They would dig them out, brush them off and fly them out, right? Well not exactly. They thought the planes were under a few feet of snow. To their surprise not one plane was visible, they were nowhere to be found. Even the metal detector produced nothing. Frustrated, they left.
Both returned a few months later for a second try. This time it was the dangerously unpredictable weather that had covered their equipment with snow and ice, making any progress impossible. They had no alternative but to leave again.
Five years passed with two teams trying without finding anything. Running short of money they decided to charge volunteers five thousand dollars each to be a part of the search team. The 1986 mission failed again, with money flowing down the drain.
By this time both men were ready to give up and quit the project. They tried another plan, to sell one eighth of a P-38 for twenty five thousand dollars. In 1988 they returned with a sub-serface radar device that could detect objects beneath the ice. Mounted on a sled it was pulled repeatedly over a square mile area with no results. Finally, just when they were ready to quit for the last time, the scope picked up an object. Gordon Scott sent down the steam probe 100’, then 200’, then at over 250’ down it hit something.
As luck would have it extremely bad weather rolled in again ruining once again their chances of recovering anything. They were forced to leave. A year later in 1989 they returned with a core drill. They sank it down to the 250’ depth and it struck something, apparently metal. It drilled through, and when pulled up there was a piece of aircraft aluminum in the bit. This created excitement and enthusiasm for the weary group, they had actually found one of the planes. The find was over a mile from the original crash site. “