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Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F Lightning, World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet for over 50 years. Glacier Girl was part of the Lost Squadron.
Learn how a P-38 Lightning fighter plane crashed in Greenland in 1942 and was recovered 22 years later by two adventurous pilots. Read the history and the adventure of Glacier Girl, the world's most famous fighter airplane.
4 Νοε 2015 · On June 22, 2007, Glacier Girl took off from Teterboro Airport, New Jersey in an attempt to cross Atlantic Ocean to Duxford, England and complete the journey it had begun sixty-five years earlier. However, on 28 June, a coolant leak in the right engine grounded the plane in Goose Bay, Labrador.
25 Απρ 2023 · Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38F Lightning that crashed in Greenland in 1942 and was recovered in 1992. Learn about its history, restoration, and airshow appearances, as well as the fate of the other seven P-38s and two B-17s that landed with it.
On July 15, 1942, a flight of six P-38s and two B-17 bombers, with a total of 25 crew members on board, took off from Presque Isle Air Base in Maine headed for the U.K. What followed was a harrowing and life-threatening landing of the entire squadron on a remote ice cap in Greenland.
He was standing in front of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning named Glacier Girl. A long time ago, Cardin’s boss, J. Roy Shoffner, invested in a project to recover the P-38, which was buried beneath...
Glacier Girl is a P-38 Lightning that survived 50 years of being buried under 268 feet of ice in Greenland. Learn about its history, recovery, restoration, and flight after Operation Bolero.
