Glacier Girl, buried in ice for decades, retries transatlantic flight


	Glacier Girl, buried in ice for decades, retries transatlantic flight

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6-26-2007 1:57 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4d750f44-2f8d-423b-bd1d-18f1214c41fb/39E9CCC4-2F46-4198-AECF-546325073A77/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/06/26/glacier-girl.html" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/06/26/glacier-girl.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.cbc.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/06/26/glacier-girl.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cbc.ca/img/18B463BF-2D0D-435A-8069-5D1A1323EA39" alt="Bob Cardin inspects Glacier Girl in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. He said that when his crew tunnelled through ice and found the plane, 'Every single piece was broken.'" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/06/26/glacier-girl.html"><P>A fighter aircraft that spent decades buried in a glacier — earning the nickname Glacier Girl — has made its way back to the Labrador air base where its ill-fated mission began.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/06/26/glacier-girl.html">The P-38 Lightning was among a squadron that left Happy Valley-Goose Bay in 1942, headed for the war-torn skies of Europe.
<P>The squadron never made it. Poor weather forced the pilots to crash-land in Greenland, and although the crews were rescued, the planes lay buried for decades in ice.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/06/26/glacier-girl.html"><P>Glacier Girl was recovered during a lengthy operation in 1992. Last week, it lifted off from New Jersey to take a second run at the transatlantic crossing.</p> <P>However — in an echo of its 1942 journey — poor weather has grounded the plane for a few days in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/39E9CCC4-2F46-4198-AECF-546325073A77/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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