Wreckchasing 101: A Guide to Finding Aircraft Crash Sites
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (537 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0983060649 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 326 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Wreckchasing 101: A Guide to Finding Aircraft Crash Sites teaches readers how to research and locate a historic aircraft's final resting place. Individual aircraft crashes profiled include: • Western Air Express Fokker F-10A • The Philippine Clipper • Grand Canyon Mid-Air • Carole Lombard's TWA DC-3 • DC-3 That Crashed and Flew Again • Airwest Mid-Air with F-4 Phantom • Airship USS Macon and its Sparrowhawk fighters • Grumman F3F Recovered from the Pacific • Arizona TF-51 crash • Lend-Lease P-39 Found in a Canadian lake and much more.. To be successful at finding historic aircraft wrecks, a Wreckchaser must do the homework first. Finding an aircraft crash site is 95 percent research and five percent field work. This book is the starting place for anyone interested in aviation, history, research, hiking, and historic preservation. It takes readers to more than 20 commercial and military crashes and provides extensive research resources, including the longitude and latitude coordinates for more than 500 aircraft wrecks, plus data on another 1,700 aircraft crashes. The book also provides information on how to obtain civil and military crash reports, individual military aircraft record cards, and vital topo maps, as well as lists of Internet resources and recommended reading
info not a guide Lacks complete location coordinates. You could be searching for weeks in the mountains and or desert. Not a guide at all.. The wreckchasing guide for the beginner This is a wonderful resource for the beginning wreckchaser! Put together by some of the leading names in aviation archaeology, this manual will show the newest members of this avocation how to go about researching and starting the hunt for any of the many thousands of wrecked aircraft around the United States. In addition, one the leading authors of Wreckchasing 101, Nick Veronico, has taken his out of print and hard to find classics, Wreckchasing 1 & 2 and combined them in this new work. Those two great books inspired myself and countless others to begin the search for historic aircraft crash sites and will continue to do so with this well i. "Good starting point for wreckchasers" according to Amazon Customer. This book provides a good background to all of the legwork needed to locate aircraft wreck sites. It provides step by step instructions and checklists on how you can research and locate aircraft crash sites and hopefully find something interesting there. As the author points out, World War II era crash sites are more likely to have wrecks as they were generally left in the field. Having read Hidden Warbirds, it was interesting to read more about all of the legwork that must have been done to locate those crash sites. Color photos, if available, would have made the book more visually appealing, but the uniqueness of the content makes up for it