Another Salvage job

[Longdan]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/video/wwii-fighter-plane-recovered-lake-182033023.html

[mirth]

Fox goofed just a little on the caption - "WWII Fighter Jet Pulled From Lake Michigan"

I don't recall any jet-powered variants of the Wildcat.

[Longdan]

Fox Never Goofs.  The other media is biased towards propeller planes.

[GDS_Starfury]

everyone knows propellers are liberal.

[Steelgrave]

^depends on which way they spin  :)

[besilarius]

It's barely possible that one of the Bell prototype jets could have made it's way from the Mojave dessert to a lake in Michigan?
Dick Bong was test flying one, when the engine cut out and it crashed.  Taking him out of the war was no favor as it turned out.

[GDS_Starfury]

^depends on which way they spin  :)

well DUH! 

they spin to the left.

[Electric_Strawberry]

About 20,000 naval pilots were trained at the Great Lakes Naval Air Station there in Chicago.  I remember reading somewhere once that the bottom of lake Michigan was literally covered with WWII aircraft that those pilots ditched for whatever reasons.

Anway, here's an interesting tidbit:  http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/520.html

[LongBlade]

Good stuff. Thanks, 'Lectric.

[Electric_Strawberry]

and here's a follow-up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wolverine_(IX-64)

[TheCommandTent]

Interesting reads thanks for posting those links.

[mirth]

and here's a follow-up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wolverine_(IX-64)

Very cool! The US Navy's first side-wheeled aircraft carrier!

[Martok]

and here's a follow-up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wolverine_(IX-64)

Fascinating stuff.  I never we had one before.