underwater question

I have some pictures, somewhere, of that B-25 they fished out of a lake in North or South Carolina several years ago ... I will look when I get home.

Pfffttt ... after I posted I had another thought - fresh or salt water? That is going to make a HUGE difference in how it weathers. For some excellent color pics of a TBD that's been underwater since 1942, go to the TIGHAR website and look at their Devastator Project.

As to how to get that look, well, I'm no expert, but I'm guessing various washes with oils or acrylics, maybe something like Rustall?

If it's in salt water there will be a lot of sealife, the most pictures I have seen the plane i covered with shell fish and other living things. The corrosion will also eat its part of the plane. Anything made from fabric will be gone in a few months.

In fresh water fabric will not be destroyed. The plane will be covered in dirt that the currents bring, mostly sediment. There was a nice documentary of the b-29 that is on the bottom of the lake Mead behind Hoover dam, even the silk parachute was intact.

Half way down the page of the following link and you will find a nice photo of the b-29 cockpit.

http://airplanes-underwater.blogspot.com/2006_01_01_archive.html

And here is a Brewster that has been in a fresh water lake for 50 years:

http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/feature/artikkelit/bw372-esitelma/bw372_3.jpg

Michael

I was thinking more of saltwater. sorry I forgot to mention that

Here's a Flight 19 Avenger the pres of my model club did a while back:

Have a look at these for some ideas...

http://www.nwrain.com/~newtsuit/uas/gallery.html

http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23871

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmqkOG6vYxk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2yhWW0wSYo&feature=related

http://www.uga.edu/cuda/wrecks.html

 Don

thanks to all of you who replyed to my forum

christopher

For the record a B25 was fished out of Lake Greenwood, Greenwood SC in 1983-4, Training flight crashed on June 6, 1944. There is another one still in Lake Murry SC. Anyone game for fishing it out?

 http://www.s205409446.onlinehome.us/AWA1/101-200/walk125_B-25/walk125.htm

"There is another one still in Lake Murry SC. Anyone game for fishing it out?"

They fished that one out a couple years ago>

http://www.thecolumbiastar.net/news//2005/0916/Front_Page/001.html

garys wrote:

"There is another one still in Lake Murry SC. Anyone game for fishing it out?"   They fished that one out a couple years ago>     http://www.thecolumbiastar.net/news//2005/0916/Front_Page/001.html

Well dang, I missed that! how did I miss someone pulling a B25 out of the lake 30 miles away? 

Thanks for the 411 Gary