Wreckage recognition request

By: mark_pilkington - 30th June 2005 at 11:22 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

looks the same to me, ??

has anyone planned to recover it and see what it looks like when totally exposed? and cleaned??

Mark Pilkington

By: crazymainer - 30th June 2005 at 12:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Hi Martin,

It appears at first glance to be the Turbo off a B-17 do you have any more photos?

Cheers
RER

By: HP57 - 30th June 2005 at 13:14 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Please correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember that these General Electric turbosuperchargers were fairly standard and were used on the B-24 and P-47 as well. So finding just one of those turbos gives a clue that it is indeed an american type but no more than that.

Cheers

Cees

By: sycamore - 30th June 2005 at 15:11 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

Maybe they are the reason the pond is there !

By: italian harvard - 30th June 2005 at 15:57 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

those supercharger were used on P-38 and P-47 as well... what is weird is that they looked "coupled", and what i know is that the P-47 had the two stage two speed supercharger..
Might sound a lil easy, but we might well be in front of a P-47 wreck, as we all know plane wrecks were often dropped in ponds during the war..

Alex

By: NickB - 8th August 2005 at 10:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00

So......did we ever get to the bottom of this piece of wreckage?

Swissmustang can you provide us with an update please?

Thanks

Nick