Hey guys,
I'm sure a few of you have heard about the P-38F that was pulled out of an ice cap up in Greenland. Well there is a web page that has a restoration slide show and also a newsletter. According to the poeple at the museum, "Glacier Girl" was taxied under her own power twice during January. I've been up to Middlesboro, KY a couple of times to see the aircraft and it is amazing that they are so close to the first flight of that plane in 50 yrs. The web address is www.thelostsquadron.com . Hope you enjoy the site as much as I.

Thanks for the info! The P-38 is my all time favorite WWII a/c! Gonna have to bookmark that site to keep myself updated. A good friend of mine was at Duxford England a couple of years ago when a vintage P-38 crashed and got demolished, tears filled our eyes! Talk about a waste, the pilot was at the end of his show when he decided to do an inverted loop and misjudged the height, it was too late to do anything when he found out!!

Thanks again for the headsup!!

"Glacier Girl is the ONLY surviving F version of the lightning. I'll let you know the scheduled flight date as soon as I hear. :-)

Excellent news! Thanks for the link too.

A home movie of Glacier Girl taxing down the runway is avalible to watch ,in the Gazette, on the web site www.thelostsquadron.com There is a little bad news though. According to the newsletter they don't think she'll fly for another 4 months. But, never the less progress is being made.

Another 4 months is not too bad considering how long she had to wait to come alive again!
Just happy to see another warbird entering the world :-)

:-) Thanks for the neat link Ladymodeler, that is a really cool site. It will be nice checking out their progress and the first flight again.

Ron C.
Ashtabula, Oh

They just have a few more panels to make and some other small stuff to do, but hope to have it flying mid-summer. :-)

I'd heard of the story in the newspaper a while ago, but the article didn't do very much to describe how much work and effort was put into retrieving the plane! That's quite a story!!! I suddenly have inspiration for a model......

YodaMan

Hey Penny,

How much you give me for my negatives when i covered the October, '01 engine runup for the Kingsport paper? lol

Only shame is that the intercoolers won't operate for the superchargers. Bob Cardin told me that General Electric examined the main turbos and said they were in operating condition.

Great bird, and an odd mix of P-38E and F characteristics to boot!!

I was there and was right up front ! :-) Where were you at and are they some great pics?

and . . .

when I interviewed Roy Shoffner at the runup, he told how he asked Lockheed for help with the restoration.

According to him, Lockheed sent a generic set of P-38 three-views and an offer to sell him engineering and manufacturing drawings for several tens of thousands of dollars.

You'd think that a major defense contractor would be a bit more willing , even with modern-day liability issues, to help restore a product that helped make their corporate reputation AND history . . .

my $0.02 worth . . .

I was wandering around with one of the groundcrew out in the middle of the open area. Got some fairly good stuff :-)

Ok, The recent news on Glacier Girl is the two engine panels have been completed and installed. Also the two drop tanks that were made for her also are in place under the wings. Go have a look see http://www.thelostsquadron.com

Ohh, I almost forgot...... The History Channel will be doing a piece on the plane after she takes her first flight. It was said to be scheduled around six months before it was to air.

You're kidding?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO -- RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

Check out the "Glacier Girl Gazette" to see a few recent pics of her with her new tanks and engine panels. :-) :-)

She's looking really good Penny. I just wish they could've brought more of them up.

Hey Paul,
I wish they could've brought up a B-17 as well...... Too bad that they were all destroyed...

Good looking plane their Penny really impressive. Lots of time and work neat job. One big kit

You just gotta love those 1/1 scale kits !!!!!

Congrats on your promotion to Lt.Colonel, sgtreef !!!!!

Thank You Mam

Thought I would put up the link for the Gazette so everybody who wants to can take a look instead of looking all over the site for the link (alright....I confess I was the one roaming the site to find it....)

http://www.thelostsquadron.com/ggg.html

:-) :-) Sorry Brian, I just thought that you would want to roam thru the whole site to see everything....

It's gotten big in the time I've been away!!! Ain't it lovely...

It woiuld take a long time to search the WHOLE thing now!!