Heinkel 115 to be rasied from watery grave in June.

[jshell]

An almost intact, super-rare Heinkel 115 sea-plane is to be raised from the waters near Stavanger Airport on June the 2nd. It's planned to keep it in a tank of fresh water for up to 2 years to allow the salts to flush out of the tiny gaps between platework and other components. Seemingly there isn't an example of this plane in any musem in the world, so should be quite interesting.

Link to newspaper report in Norwegian, but just drop the address into google translate for an idea of it. The word 'sun' in the translation is the name of the airport - 'Sola'.

http://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/2012/04/16/fant-u...

[Eric Mc]

These water finds are really interesting.

[Simpo Two]

Makes you wonder what you'd find if you could drain the Channel. Thousands of boats and aeroplanes. And people.

Two dams and a big pump anyone?

[Eric Mc]

If the drought continues - you never know.

[Sam_68]

Simpo Two said:

Two dams and a big pump anyone?

With the rate at which cheap side-scan sonar is improving these days, soon you'll just need a rowing boat and a Lowrance.

[Yertis]

I think my brother built one of these - was it Frog or Revell?

(One Google later...)

It was both.

[eccles]

Yertis said:

I think my brother built one of these - was it Frog or Revell?

(One Google later...)

It was both.

I made the Matchbox one.

[perdu]

eccles said:

Yertis said:

I think my brother built one of these - was it Frog or Revell?

(One Google later...)

It was both.

I made the Matchbox one.

Must have been late sixties, for mine

Definitely Frog and their Me410