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Old 20th August 2017, 14:57
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Re: A CATALINA CRASHED IN CROTIA ?

Hello Gilles, hello everyone,

I send clues that I could observe directly on this piece of aircraft wreck, or on the pictures I made or the pictures that Jona sent to me:

1) traces of paint
- yellow / sand color on the concave surface (probably outer surface)
- black color on the convex part (probably inside the fuselage)
- black color on the small sheet inside the circle: this sheet look like the top of a dashboard. Black paint is used to avoid reflections on the canopy

2) shape and thickness of the rivets
- some rivets are rounded and have a good aerodynamic profile
- some rivets have an angled edge
- all the rivets have a thick of 1 to 1.5 mm above the surface, which surprised me for an aircraft fuselage.
That surprised me to the point of thinking at one time that it was not a plane wreck.

3) thickness of the sheets
I handled this piece and I remembered being surprised by the thickness of the aluminum sheets:
- the plates of what could be the fuselage were about 2mm thick,
- while the small black sheet metal (dashboard) measured 1mm maximum

4) 2 kinds of cables
- a first type of cable containing at least 2 metal wires
This type of cable was surrounded by a large thickness of rubber
- a second type of cable is surrounded by a wire mesh and could be a hydraulic connector used in landing gear or flap controls …
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