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Neil
03-May-2013, 10:39 AM
A project starts today to salvage the world's last Dornier 17 from 50ft down in the English Channel.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/67386000/jpg/_67386819_dornier_salvage2_624in.jpg

It will take a few weeks to bring it up, and then for 18months it will be showered in citric acid to clean it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22380915


Work begins on Friday to raise a unique World War II aircraft from the floor of the English Channel just off the Kent coast. The Dornier 17 aircraft is the last of its kind, and lies in 50ft of water on the Goodwin Sands. The salvage is just the start of a two-year restoration project by the RAF Museum in Hendon.
shootemindehead
03-May-2013, 11:42 AM
Cool.

If that article is correct with the call sign, 5 Konrad Anton Richard (5K + AR), then the plane is from III/KG3, or Group 3, Bomber Wing 3.

Hendon's RAF museum is well worth a trip, if you've never been.
Neil
03-Jun-2013, 10:13 AM
Nearly there - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22746342


A plan to raise a unique World War Two aircraft from the bottom of the English Channel has been brought forward by a day because of poor weather.

Divers will now attempt to raise the only surviving WWII Dornier 17 bomber on Sunday at 21:00 BST

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Postponed for a week - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22752625
Neil
10-Jun-2013, 07:21 PM
Raised - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22846645
shootemindehead
11-Jun-2013, 12:28 AM
I think that's going to take a lot more work than most people anticipated. It's really not in that great a nick.

The cleaning process alone is going to take ages.
Neil
11-Jun-2013, 02:43 PM
I think that's going to take a lot more work than most people anticipated. It's really not in that great a nick.

The cleaning process alone is going to take ages.

60+ years in the sea? I think it looks remarkably good :)
shootemindehead
11-Jun-2013, 03:19 PM
70+ ?


:P


What I mean is that the encrusted crap and manufacture of missing parts is going to be a difficult endevour. It would be a great project to work on.

I wonder if they can get their hands on some original RLM paints. RLM70/71/65 will be needed.