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Glacier Girl: The P-38 from the Greenland Ice
The recovery and restoration of the Lockheed P-38 Glacier Girl: an English Smithsonian lecture on a World War II aircraft.
- Duration: 1:14:42
- Tone: English
- Subtitle: English
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About this video
The history of this P-38 begins with an emergency landing on the Greenlandic ice sheet. Decades later, the machine was recovered and made airworthy again. Participants report on the search, the difficult rescue and the restoration. The recording combines technical aircraft history with practical work on the historical original.
Source and Author
National Air and Space Museum / Smithsonian Institution · Unchanged embedding of the original video.