Thread: Russian Tank Recovered from a Lake After 62 Years

Originally Posted by langy

"Glacier girl" is actually back flying in England...

Lost Squadron Museum - Glacier Girl - Middlesboro, KY

After watching the tank vids i did a quick search and found the articles on Glacier Girl.

Wow what a find, even the German Cross looked good as day it was put on, it was obviously a captured tank commandeered into Nazi Service, Russia is yeilding some good finds these days, you dont here of tanks coming to light that often, I was amazed it come out rolling on the tracks, they must have disengaged the gearbox before shifting it, would like to see it cleaned up, probably just needed a good wash and some oil here and there.

Originally Posted by graceysdad

Wow what a find, even the German Cross looked good as day it was put on, it was obviously a captured tank commandeered into Nazi Service, Russia is yeilding some good finds these days, ...

er I guess that would be Estonia, an independant country on the Baltic, member of NATO having freed itself from more than 50 years of Soviet occupation.

Diana

Originally Posted by graceysdad

Wow what a find, even the German Cross looked good as day it was put on, it was obviously a captured tank commandeered into Nazi Service, Russia is yeilding some good finds these days, you dont here of tanks coming to light that often, I was amazed it come out rolling on the tracks, they must have disengaged the gearbox before shifting it, would like to see it cleaned up, probably just needed a good wash and some oil here and there.

the way i saw it......as it was coming out of the water and up the slope.....
it had the hand brake on.......

the tracks only started to turn a bit later in the vid.....

So whos got a link of then eng starting up?

Sorry to resurrect this old link (looks surprisingly good though....must've also been preserved in peat.....whose Pete?)

On a similar subject I have a great DVD of a Superfortress (the Kee Bird) that landed on a frozen lake (due to lack of fuel) during the cold war, and a bunch of yee-hah Americans that decide to salvage it by fitting new engines, repairing torn fabric to airlerons etc and flying it out.
All goes well until the over ambitious pilot takes it on a very bumpy trial taxi run, during which an auxillery generator in the waist of the plane (should have been removed prior to plane moving) falls over an ignites. The whole immaculate plane burns to bits infront of their eyes.
A little more dotting of I's and crossing of t's and this gorgeous plane would have flown again.

See link:B29KeeBird.net - The Last Flight of the KeeBird

Also interseting is: Air Pirates

Cheers
Jason7001

when i was living in the UK about a mile from where i went to school (no, i wasnt a keen student) was a couple of workshops, one had a running scale model of a rolls royce avon jet engine, and the one nect door was restoring a Focke-Wulf 190 that had been retrieved from a swamp in russia, half of the aluminium skin on the fuselage was in great condition, but everything needed to be re-rivetted, so a few panels were replaced, the 20mm canon were in restorable condition, as was the radial engine

Thanks Ron, very interesting; obviously not a Lada. Any one else remember them?