LightCone,LightCone wrote:§
WWII fighter plane found perfectly preserved in the Sahara
If you suspect there is something dubious about that image (although the ELA doesn't seem to indicate anything unusual), would you mind clarifying for us, please?
Also, as we often try to remind members here, we all need to provide links to the original sources of any images and info we post. It is extremely important, if we wish to not only be but seen to be legitimate researchers, that our sources are always verifiable (something the opposition tries to accuse us of, so why give them any unnecessary ammo on something so easily prevented?
)It also saves us from having to constantly paste image urls into the Google image finder to source them.
For example, the image above is included with several others in this aviation e-zine article citing the Daily Mail:
http://www.golfhotelwhiskey.com/aviatio ... ts-desert/
BTW, finding lost WWII aircraft in the North African desert is hardly unheard of. My brother-in-law was working for Darcy Exploration (a company contracted by British Petroleum) in 1958 when a Darcy seismic team found the Lady Be Good B-24D virtually intact in the Lybian desert. He even managed to get some souvenirs himself from the site (e.g. a pair of headphones and a life raft).
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