[mazex]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

Unfortunately the warbirds archaeology and restoration business is a ruthless one: this wreck surely bears a lot of importance for the fact that is a very rare thing to find such a time capsule,but there are a million ways this thing could be handled wrong. The leaking of pictures and videos on the Internet is an example of how things could be handled wrong. I don't know yet whats gonna happen to this wreck,and even if it looks complete,it would be a shame to restore it to flying conditions,since you would still have to take it apart completely and re-build most of it,losing much of the original material,only to bring back to the skies a not so rare warbird.
As I said,I hope that it will be taken to a museum and exposed as it was found,since this is a proper archaeological find,not a restorable barn find.

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I really like when wrecks are displayed in museums like they where found. They had a Gladiator in the RAF museum at Hendon when I was there in the 80:ies that looked just like when it was pulled out of a lake in Finland... I guess it's still there and it was much more interesting than a restored one. Put a patch of sand and rock at Hendon and show this baby just as it looks on the videos and it will have lots of people looking at it

/mazex