Do-17z found!!

Originally Posted by T_O_A_D

I'd imagine there are plenty more wrecks like this, coming to light, as sonar improves, and more people are using it.

Looking forward to the rest of the story.

It's a race against time and elements really: a full scan of the Channel would bring up SO much stuff, it's just a prohibiting expensive thing to do
Unfortunately it's all down to the luck factor...

SJ

[Flying Pencil]

For some reason a few NEW news reports posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12997528

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110408/...itain_warplane


Some nice new scans

[Novfanaion]

Great news!
Hope all goes well.

[Azimech]

Ah so it's in salt water. That's terrible for duralumin and other alloys based on aluminum. I don't hope so, but it could break apart while they attempt to surface it. I once took pictures of the remains of a Jumo 211, found in the Waddenzee north of The Netherlands.

[Flying Pencil]

Originally Posted by Azimech

Ah so it's in salt water. That's terrible for duralumin and other alloys based on aluminum. I don't hope so, but it could break apart while they attempt to surface it. I once took pictures of the remains of a Jumo 211, found in the Waddenzee north of The Netherlands.

I think it has enough structure to hold, but some parts are all but gone.
Engines are probably mostly gone.

The good news is 17z's where built before the war, so material is better quality.

[Venatore]

Do we know if this is a war grave? did the crew escape?

[RayVad]

As you can read on page 1 of this thread:

...At around 13.40 hours the aircraft forcelanded
on Goodwin Sands off the eastern Kentish coast at low
tide. Of the four crew, two (Wounded Pilot Feldwebel Willi
Effmert, and Bomb Aimer Uffz Hermann Ritzel) became
Prisoners-of-War in Canada and two (27-year old Wireless
Operator Unteroffizier Helmut Reinhardt and 21-year old
Bomb aimer Gefreiter Heinz Huhn) were killed, their bodies
being recovered later and buried in Holland and the UK
(Cannock Chase German cemetery) respectively....

So no, there supposed to be no human remains in the wreck anymore.

[checkmysix]

Hi Guys
Here is Skin I made of this aircraft for IL2 Cliffs of Dover.








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