Weheka... Hear, hear.
With P 39 searches in sand up Cape York, we had a Deep Seeker metal detector...vintage techo nowadays. One found busted and inverted.
2 Lt. Robert R. Love USAAC/F 1st May 1942. Killed in the cartwheel Aged 22
RIP young Robert.
Never even made it to the War. P 39 F? Serial unknown as yet.
Second find by 'good luck' with very bad luck. Were to use a hands held magnetometer borrowed from an exploration co. walk a grid, plot the results and locate an anomaly ..or not. Wasnt buried where the pilot said it might be...be he wasn't far off.
Having bailed out after engine failure, he watched it glide on and crash land itself.
After a Cape adventure he went back to get 'his personal effects and tech orders' out of the cockpit, along with an Oz Army patrol. A/c little knocked about, but intact.
We were scrabbling in the turkey brush, and found what was left in a vale between scrubby dunes.
Our bad luck was in the early 70s it got blown up in a Army exercise. Bugger.!
There went 'my' P 39...finders keepers.!
So we never did get to use the magnetometer over the given plot zone..
Lt Richard J Shipway. USAAF P 39 Q6. #(4)219943. Engine failure 23. 12. 1943
Was a Reccon pilot on F5 Lightnings, survived the War OK. Now deceased at 93
RIP, old Richard.
Briefly re 2 methods that have been very well researched by David and his Team no doubt. May the Lidar do the final trick for The Spot.!!