US WWII bomber emerges from glacier in Iceland 76 years after crash
The B-17 Flying Fortress bomber flew into the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in southern Iceland on September 16, 1944.
US WWII bomber emerges from glacier in Iceland melting due to climate change - 76 years after it crashed on its way to England
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US WWII bomber emerges from glacier in Iceland melting due to climate change - 76 years after it crashed on its way to England
US WWII bomber emerges from glacier in Iceland melting due to climate change - 76 years after it crashed on its way to England
- The B-17 Flying Fortress crashed into the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland
- Bomber's 10 crew survived the accident during a re-fuelling on Sept. 16, 1944
- The warplane was on its way to England when it was caught in a down-draught
- Ice swallowed it up but it has now re-appeared in the open air due to melting
How dare you! It obviously crashed down through millions of years of ice and ended up just above ice deposited in the pliocene epoch.
So, what they are saying is 76 years ago the plane landed, and was subsequently covered in snow/ice. And then 76 years later the ice melts, wouldn't that be a net effect of 0 as far as glacier formation goes.
Look I think the climate is changing, you want to debate the reasons fine. But the snow melts off my driveway every spring, so what is the point. I mean glaciers have never been 100's of miles thick. They have never accumulated from the beginning of time to never ever receed.
Look I think the climate is changing, you want to debate the reasons fine. But the snow melts off my driveway every spring, so what is the point. I mean glaciers have never been 100's of miles thick. They have never accumulated from the beginning of time to never ever receed.
I would have been really quiet about finding that until all the .50 cals were safely squirreled away in my barn.
The P-38 That Was Extracted From Ice and Flew Again
Meet Glacier Girl, frozen under the ice for 50 years and then returned to the skies.
www.popularmechanics.com
I have a grand total of 0.2 Hrs in the left seat of a B-17 logged in my logbook. It was way too brief, but it did not suck. It is a regal bird. Later, I took this pic from the port waist-gunner's station. With the high cirrus in the background it reminds me of what the view of the climb out on a real mission might have looked like.
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