|  FSX and FS2004 versions included!
The P38 Glacier Girl Pack
P-38F s/n
417630 (now called "Glacier Girl") was one of six P-38
fighters and two B-17 bombers being flown to Europe seven months after
theUnited States entered World War II. While enroute over
Greenland, bad weather caused the eight
aircraft to turn back, the entire flight attempting to land together before they
ran out of fuel. Although one P-38 overturned, the flight successfully
belly-landed. The crews were rescued within a few days, but the airplanes were
abandoned and, over the years, they were covered by ice. A few attempts to
salvage the airplanes were made but were unsuccessful.
Eventually, Roy
Shoffner, a Middlesboro, Kentucky businessman,
acquired the salvage rights and in 1992, 50 years and one month after the planes
landed, a P-38 recovery mission was undertaken. Using photos taken by the
original crews while they were awaiting rescue as well as modern seismographic
equipment, the salvage workers located the buried squadron and selected the
least damaged of the planes. They reached it by boring a hole using hot water
through the layer of ice 268 feet thick. The airplane was transported to
Middlesboro, where a ten-year restoration began using many parts from late model
aircraft. Nicknamed "Glacier Girl," the restored P-38F Lightning made its first
post-restoration flight on 26 October 2002. This is a FS2004 port, so some features may not work in FSX.
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