Museum wants sunken WWII Dornier 17

[visibility3miles]

LONDON — A rare World War II German bomber, shot down over the English Channel in 1940 and hidden for years by shifting sands at the bottom of the sea, is so well preserved a British museum wants to raise it...

The plane is still vulnerable to the area's notorious shifting sands and has become the target of recreational divers hoping to salvage souvenirs.

The RAF museum has launched an appeal to raise funds for the lifting operation.
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[Robert Cooper]

The Do-17 project team posted a video of the underwater exploration on YouTube. Didn't look too good to me, but it was difficult to see and I'm no archaeological expert. :)

Bob C

[Exnomad]

Surely after all that time in salt water, The aluminium must be largely granular by now.
Some bits such as engine blocks may be worth displaying, cat imagine much else, unless Hitler was fooling us and it was made of wood.

[JW411]

Two things: it is not the only one left. I believe there is another one under water off the north coast of Germany which is kept very quiet for the crew are still inside.

Secondly: those of us who are old enough to have witnessed the bloody shambles that the RAF Museum made after the RAF volunteers who got the Halifax out of the lake in Norway. The Museum now freely admit that the airframe is eventually going to crumble into nothing due to a lack of investment.

(Unlike the Canadians who got their Halifax out of a Norwegian lake, transported it all the way to Canada, and did an absolutely wonderful job of preserving it).

The RAF Museum getting a Do17 out of the Goodwin Sands and restoring it?

Don't make me laugh. You can't even preserve a Halifax that came out of a freshwater Norwegian Lake.

My possible contribution will be staying firmly in my pocket!

[jarvis123]

Any news on any progress with this project?

The Hendon website talks about it being raised in Autumn 2012.