Wildcat recovered from Lake Michigan

[Lightyear]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/07/world-war-ii-plane-recovered-from-lake-michigan/?test=latestnews

[Pilgrim]

That plane looks to be in remarkably good condition!

[godofthunder]

  What a great find!

[Denis]

Nice! I love reading stories like that!

One comment in the article leads me to believe there's 16,999 more planes at the bottom of Lake Michigan...

"More than 17,000 pilots completed the training in Lake Michigan."

[uwe]

So you trained your navy pilots over the Great Lakes area? Very smart!

[TBird1958]

So you trained your navy pilots over the Great Lakes area? Very smart!

Definately true, in the Seattle area many Naval pilots trained at Sand Point, NAS on Lake Washington. Our Museum of Flight dredged a Corsair out a few years back and restored it for display.

[Highlander]

Any Hellcats, or just coarse hairs...?

[TBird1958]

Any Hellcats, or just coarse hairs...?

Now, now!

I was gonna let that go Kenny 

[uwe]

Devious yanks probably sent a couple of Hellcats under the Lend/Lease Program to unsuspecting Brits and called them Corsairs, so Kenny really can't be blamed ...

[drbassman]

The news today said there are about 80 more of them at the bottom of the lake.  Not too bad considering the number who tained there!

[uwe]

I bet there is a German U-Boot still lurking there as well. The crew should be well into their nineties now, but then you age slower underwater ...

[TBird1958]

You know we have your U-505 held hostage in Chicago!
It travelled the Great Lakes right up onto shore and into the museum of Science and Industry 

[gweimer]

You know we have your U-505 held hostage in Chicago!
It travelled the Great Lakes right up onto shore and into the museum of Science and Industry 

You got that right!

[TBird1958]

Initailly it was displayed next to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Pioneer Zephyr..........A very early all stainless steel diesel powered streamlined train. 

[uwe]

You thieves.