This site is intended as a resource dedicated to the exploration,
discovery, documentation, conservation and presentation of
heritage (eg, recently discovered, and WW2) aircraft crash sites
worldwide. It has a number of facets, for example:
• submerged aviation archaeology (hence the involvement of WAMM)
• conservation
• in-situ preservation
• Partial or total recovery
• Exhibits
• Technical research
• Publication.
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The site is aimed at anyone who's desire it is to accurately record,
preserve, or present their findings for the benefit of the sites, their
stories, the people involved, their relatives and for the future.
This site and its many links to other sites might also serve as a
resource that could lead to the study of crashed heritage aircraft
becoming recognised as a bonafide heritage or archaeological
endeavour. It could also provide links to those who might be able
to assist with experiences, new ideas, expertise or other contacts.
Contributors can either have an electronic link to their own site,
or they can present their project or finds on this site where it will
be viewed by an international audience. Their conclusions,
methodology, etc can then be presented for| the benefit of
others invoved, to add to the body of knowledge and to publicize
their work. Click here to go to Submissions.
Should they wish to, contributors could also seek to obtain
feedback from professional, historical and academic bodies and
from experienced avocational practitioners who are linked here
(ie, capable, independent searchers, researchers, conservators
and restorers).
It is not an aim of this site to prescribe method, to criticise, or in
any way seek to regulate activities. It is however hoped that the
site may assist in the development of a free exchange such that
the diminishing archaelogical resource is better managed.
Some other aviation website links appear below:
We are also not going to forget the human element: A single
aircraft crashing in some remote part of the world is more than the
sum parts of its scattered and twisted wreckage. Its journey from
assembly to operations, to its final resting place, may well have
involved and affected hundreds of people in apparently un-related
and fragmented areas, not forgetting emotional attachments that
can hold for a lifetime where tragedy occurs.
It is our wish, in developing this site and making it readily available
in an un-biased manner, that contributor's, discoveries, research
and stories may help unite many of these disparate elements -
search, research, discovery, documention, preservation and
presentation about the aircraft, the sites, the exhibitions, the
reports and people.
Please follow the menu prompts to navigate your way through
the site. We hope that you enjoy it and look forward to your
contributions. These can be posted to us at the following
Jon Davison - Eye in the Sky Productions
Michael McCarthy - Western Australian Maritime Museum
Click the WA Museum logo
to see the Broome WW2
aircraft wrecks
PACIFIC WRECKS
Click here for the authority on WW2 wreck sites throughout
the Pacific Theatre. Pacific Wrecks.com
<http://www.pacificwrecks.com/>
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