 | Tailfin from F-14 washes ashore in Ireland!| Modern Discuss Tailfin from F-14 washes ashore in Ireland! in the Other Eras forums; I do recall the article also said there were no barnacles on the fin either, so it would have to ... |
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05-08-2006, 09:13 AM
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#16 | | "Shooter"
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Country:  | I do recall the article also said there were no barnacles on the fin either, so it would have to have been a recent event. There is always the possibility that it was a piece of an airplane that may have been dumped overboard from a maintenance crew.
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05-15-2006, 10:49 AM
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#17 | | "Shooter"
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A ten-foot section of vertical stabilizer from a crashed F-14 washed up in Ireland after apparently traveling 4,900 miles from the crash site off Florida. Squadron insignia and serial numbers were still legible and the Navy confirmed the part came from the Tomcat that crashed in 2002.
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05-15-2006, 12:01 PM
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#18 | | Minister of Whoopass
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05-15-2006, 12:14 PM
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#19 | | World Traveler
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Country:  | Yep, wonder how something like that (that should sink like a stone) managed to travel accross the Atlantic and end up in Ireland. I guess that it the next mystery...
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05-15-2006, 01:03 PM
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#20 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Yep, that is odd. There must have been just enough air trapped in the supporting structure to keep in afloat. Amazing
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05-16-2006, 02:56 AM
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#21 | | Master of Ewes
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something like that (that should sink like a stone)
| as long as it stayed on it's side it should've been alright, and they're pretty hollow inside aint they? did the F-14 have fuel tanks in the fins like the F-35?
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05-16-2006, 06:58 AM
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#22 | | Minister of Whoopass
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05-16-2006, 04:26 PM
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#23 | | He who does not skim
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Originally Posted by lesofprimus 5,000 miles???? Talk about a message in a bottle.... | Took the words out of my mouth. Unreal. | |
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05-18-2006, 03:47 PM
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| So is it finders keepers then? would make a nice trophy on the wall and allow drunken pub talk about how you single handedly wrestled an F-14 into submission with nothing more than your bare hands and have the fin to prove it 
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05-18-2006, 03:51 PM
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05-22-2006, 10:44 AM
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#26 | | "Shooter"
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