"B-29 Kee Bird, Frozen in Time For 50 Years ..." Topic
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Tango01 | 15 Mar 2016 9:17 p.m. PST |
…, She Was Almost Rescued. "The Kee Bird was a United States Army Air Forces B-29-95-BW Superfortress, 45-21768, of the 46th Reconnaissance Squadron, that became marooned after making an emergency landing in northwest Greenland during a secret Cold War spying mission on 21 February 1947. Although the entire crew was safely evacuated, after spending three days in the isolated Arctic tundra, the aircraft itself was left at the landing site. It lay there undisturbed until 1994 when a privately funded mission was launched to repair and return it…"
Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
jowady | 16 Mar 2016 2:21 p.m. PST |
Yeah, I've seen the documentary on this many times and it always makes me mad. This is what happens when folks who really don't know what they're doing try something like this. |
jgibbons | 16 Mar 2016 5:45 p.m. PST |
Sad to lose it given the condition…. |
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