http://indepthconsulting.com/B29/B29Lost.htm [I wounder if they will ever raise it from the bottom?]
History and the story ..
Ernie

I have read about this wreak in diving magazines, it is to deep to salvage, and the national park service has declared it "off limits" to recreational diving.

Nothing is too deep to salvage. Maybe too deep to do it cheaply. And what does the park service care for. I have been doing some fire sprinkler work in one of the nearby NPs. I now have a better idea as to why our country is just about belly up.

Tim

qmdv wrote: I have been doing some fire sprinkler work in one of the nearby NPs. I now have a better idea as to why our country is just about belly up.

Tim

Are we paying you too much, or not enough?

Maybe they can get Greenamayer......he's a real whiz at B=29's....at least he probably couldn't set this one on fire very easily!
John

hardtailjohn wrote:....at least he probably couldn't set this one on fire very easily!
John

Ouch Badabing! When I watched that documentary I didn't know what the end result was going to be, I almost cried.

Anyway,

I was under the impression that the US Air Force has somewhat recently asserted ownership of all their aircraft wreckage nationwide. I know that the USAF entered into a formal agreement with the National Park Service over the B-29 and the artifacts from it.

Living less than 10 miles from from my house- Lake Meade I fly over area quite a bit. The B-29 went down on southwest side of the "narrows " (about 22 miles from my hanger)about a 1/4 mile off shore. I believe it's in 100-150 of water. Park Ranger flying 206 (Bruce Lenon) pointed area out some time back. At certain light levels /directions I've seen indications of where it might be. There are no buoys but park service boats will stop you from diving in area.

once&futr_alaskaflyer wrote:

qmdv wrote: I have been doing some fire sprinkler work in one of the nearby NPs. I now have a better idea as to why our country is just about belly up.

Tim

Are we paying you too much, or not enough?

I think it goes back to the quote "It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for."
Will rogers