World War II fighter found in Egyptian desert

[TimberWolf]

David Keen, an aviation historian at the RAF Museum, says the pilot broke the first rule of survival in the desert, which is to stay with your plane or vehicle.

BBC News - World War II fighter found in Egyptian desert

Yeah, had he stayed with his vehicle he would have been picked up now

"But we have to go soon as all the souvenir hunters will be down there," said Mr Collins.

Google maps seems to zoom in quite close in to the barren desert at Wadi al-Jadid, though it's difficulty to say how far. Who can spot the plane in Google maps?

[suityou01]

Yeah, had he stayed with his vehicle he would have been picked up now



Google maps seems to zoom in quite close in to the barren desert at Wadi al-Jadid, though it's difficulty to say how far. Who can spot the plane in Google maps?

That's the states you tard.

[TimberWolf]

Just looked at some known locations of abandoned World War II trucks in the area, using Google Earth, and they show up as little more than blobs, so a plane of unknown exact location would probably not be findable in Maps under the same resolution.

[Sysman]

Yeah, had he stayed with his vehicle he would have been picked up now

We did that one on a project management course. We were theoretically stuck in a desert with limited resources. How were we going to get help?

We came up with all sorts of ideas.

The answer according to NASA was to stay put, and someone would come looking for us.

Might not work in a war situatation though.

[Old Greg]

We did that one on a project management course. We were theoretically stuck in a desert with limited resources. How were we going to get help?

We came up with all sorts of ideas.

The answer according to NASA was to stay put, and someone would come looking for us.

Might not work in a war situatation though.

Kill the others immediately to preserve and enhance your personal food supplies.

[TimberWolf]

Kill the others immediately to preserve and enhance your personal food supplies.

In this case he was on his own I believe.

It sounds as if he tried to get the radio working, perhaps sheltering under the canopy until the sun was low, and then legged it, which I guess is about all he could do under the circumstances.

[Sands of Time]

Ray Mears says 'always stay with the vehicle' - I trust Ray.

I don't trust the 'other one' who sleeps in a dead camel.




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[KentPhilip]

I think he should have tried to make a small plane out of the wreakage like they did in the film "The flight of the phoenix".