Dornier 17-Z, Goodwin Sands, 26 August 1940

[F for Freddie]

WWII Dornier bomber being raised from English Channel. BBC News-"Looks like it has been successful" Its been raised in the last few minutes...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22846645

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Ouuf, one can breath again... Battered, tattered but at least it still has some kind of structural integrity. Now the real race against time has set in... To cover in anticorrosion jelly the whole airframe... every minute counts...


Wishing them and ultimately us good luck!
Marc

[Bf 110]

Great job, well done!

Regards,
Bf 110

[edNorth]

Well done, Bloody good show, eh ... etc :-)
Battered but still recognisable. Now the Lemon Acid can take over.
And them He 177, Do 217 and Ju 188 might also be thought of,
somewhere in the Eastern Atlantic, on the tracks of the convoys,
perhaps in Boody Biscay, Irish Sea or further out in North Sea or Skagerrack.
Baltic perhaps has some too, and MTO likely squadrons of all types.
I guess its the question of money.
-ed

[Andy F-P]

Originally Posted by edNorth

Well done, Bloody good show, eh ... etc :-)
Battered but still recognisable. Now the Lemon Acid can take over.
And them He 177, Do 217 and Ju 188 might also be thought of,
somewhere in the Eastern Atlantic, on the tracks of the convoys,
perhaps in Boody Biscay, Irish Sea or further out in North Sea or Skagerrack.
Baltic perhaps has some too, and MTO likely squadrons of all types.
I guess its the question of money.
-ed

.........as time slips aways.

[Phil Lloyd]

Great to see it finally surface. The divers recovered the two engines early this morning and are waiting for slack water to recover the port wing.

[FalkeEins]

I've just got back from Ramsgate harbour - the wreck is now in port, although quayside access is restricted

http://falkeeins.blogspot.co.uk/2013...ier-do-17.html

I did manage to catch Mr Saunders on the local lunch-time news though - not Effmert's a/c ?

[Chris Goss]

Despite being away on business, no positive news as to the identity of the Do 17
Neil: on your blog spot can you state the photo of the Do 17 & crew is not Effmerts so I am not having to tell members if the Press that it a generic photo (unless you can tell me otherwise !). You know what they can be like!

[FalkeEins]

wilco Chris, I guess even The Times would have trouble identifying that as a KG 2 machine..

[edNorth]

Chris - Hope an Dornier expert be allowed examine it in detail before immersion in Lemon, you know whos doin that?

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That plate is a starter.
Best. Nr. 54xx6/4 ? (typical Henschel order number, not tiable to W.Nr., so far as I know)
Zeich.Nr. 17.57x-315 (wing part drawing number)
Typ. u Grp. Do 17 Z (as expected)
Kontr. (230) inspector nr. <H> Henschel stamp <BA> Bau Abnahme inspection stamp
(last is for Kontoll i.e. Quality Inspection?)

Plate appears not a significant one (also inicative by the -515 in wing part), so no date stamped.

-ed