He-115 recovered in Norway!

Sternjaeger II · #1 06-03-2012, 04:45 PM

this is super-news! And check out the superb preservation state!

http://www.aftenbladet.no/nyheter/lo...l#.T8tNr1Kw-M1

159th_Jester · #2 06-03-2012, 05:09 PM

Great find. Wish I could read Norwegian though!

RedToo · #3 06-03-2012, 06:11 PM

I have visited the aviation museum at Stavanger (Sola Flymuseum) and it is an excellent little museum. I think they will do a good job of looking after this plane. I'll have to post my photos of the museum at some point!

RedToo.

From Google translate:

The twin-engine bomber and torpedo plane is the only one by a German production before and during the war of 300 aircraft. It is a treasure from the war that has been raised from 40 meters in Stavanger - only a mile from the premises of the Aviation Museum, says chairman Egil Endresen Friendship Society for Aviation History Museum, the Sun, to Aftenbladet.

Endresen does not deny that he was already very excited about raising operation and the tow to shore. - There was not much sleep for me on Friday night though wreckage were loosened from the muddy bottom of the fjord, the day before and was raised to 20 meters below the surface, he said.
In good condition

Getting the plane pulled to shore was a tedious process. Uplift and delivery stage to the sun the sea to go very slowly.

- No one could say with certainty anything about the condition of the wreck after 70 years at the bottom of the fjord. When the plane lying in the down position, broke the surface, it proved to be in better condition than expected.

Even the German war chimney late on the fuselage was visible. The same was the paint and the nature of the hull and wings.

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Heinel He-115 aircraft that is raised from the bottom of Hafrsfjord is of the same type as the plane of the image.
Uplift began in Hafrsfjord

The rare German bomber and torpedo plane that crashed in Stavanger during the war were yesterday lifted from the sea bottom from 40 meters.
- The Aviation History Museum, we will now begin restoration work on the plane. The first step is to divide it into smaller parts and then put the parts in a freshwater tank., Says Endresen.

The tank must be located in areas at least two years to put away all the salt that must be in the hull. The pool is located outside the entrance to the Aviation Museum. For the audience it will be possible to see the wreckage during their stay in fresh water, says Egil Endresen.
Many spectators

Hundreds of onlookers had gathered at the sun the sea to follow the salvage of the wreck. The same was also a large number of volunteers from the Aviation Museum.

Most of the raising operation was carried out by divers from the diving company Stavanger Diving Center. Not least was Tor Arthur Andreassen active. He was the first who found the wreck of the Norwegian Mapping Authority in 2006 had revealed that there was a fly on the bottom of Hafrsfjord.

Before the aircraft could be on land had to be treated and scrubbed most of being free from water and mud. This happened while the plane was hanging in the straps of a mobile crane.
International interest

Egil Endresen said that there is great interest internationally for the salvage of the Heinkel machine. Among other things, the Aviation Museum at Sola has good contact with the Technical College in Berlin.

Besides the German Navy had the Norwegian navy six aircraft in service at the outbreak of war. One of these was 9 april 1940 in the Sun sea and was taken as booty by the Germans.

Heinkel factories that built the aircraft no longer exists. It has therefore not been possible for the people at the Aviation Museum to get the original production drawings of the aircraft. To help in the reconstruction, they must make use of the manuals that it is better access.

The German plane with characteristics 8L + FH 28 crashed during landing December 1942. The landing took place after the aircraft had escorted a German convoy off Jæren coast.

- The landing was so hard that one float was ripped off. The plane lay on its side and sank, according to aviation historian Johan P. Petersen.

The Germans managed to salvage one engine before it disappeared into the depths. Three of the crew was not injured during the accident.