Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:q1j7270q73@drn.newsguy.com:
> more at
> http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/glenn-miller%e2%80%99s-airplane-pos
> sibly-found-decades-after-famed-bandleader-vanished-during-wwii/ar-BBSf
> fU9?li=BBnb7Kz
>
> On Dec. 15, 1944, famed American bandleader Glenn Miller walked across
> Twinwood Farm airfield in southeast England, climbed into the
> passenger seat of a UC-64A Norseman light aircraft and set off for
> France.
>
>
> Tragically, it was a show he would never make. Somewhere between
> England and Northern France, Miller and the Norseman vanished. To
> date, not a single trace of the musician or the aircraft has ever been
> discovered. Alongside the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, it remains
> one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history.
>
> However, the mystery may be solved thanks to a retired trawlerman from
> aircraft in his fishing nets 32 years ago.
>
>
>
> was advised to drop his unusual catch back into the English Channel,
> where it has remained ever since. Thankfully, Fisher had the presence
> of mind to record the coordinates. It is this key piece of evidence
>
> the missing Norseman aircraft will be largely deteriorated and likely
> unrecognizable to the untrained eye.
>
> It was a steel tube frame covered with fabric and it had some aluminum
> panels on it, plus of course, an engine and a propeller. By now all
> the fabric is almost certainly gone. The wings were wooden too, so
>
>
> But the TIGHAR team does have an ace card up their sleeve. Amazingly,
> a steel-tubed fuselage with a very specific type of Pratt & Whitney
> engine, known as a Wasp.
>
>
>
> The investigation is still very much in its early stages, however.
> physical search is warranted.
>
>
> more at
> http://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/glenn-miller%e2%80%99s-airplane-pos
> sibly-found-decades-after-famed-bandleader-vanished-during-wwii/ar-BBSf
> fU9?li=BBnb7Kz
>
>
Miller's plane flew a "bomb dump" zone, where
british bombers returning from scrubbed missions
would release their ordnance into the channel
prior to landing. Apparently he was hit by "friendly
fire", as it were...........
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