For years one of the engines of an RAF Mosquito reconnaissance spy plane has lain on the Welsh hillside where it crashed - ...

In the Murmansk region of Russia, aircraft wrecks from World War II are regularly discovered. Numerous photographs show machines of German, Soviet, and American origin recovered from the water.

At 2:14 am, the plane descended at an alarming 10,912 feet per minute, hitting the water at a final nose angle of 16.2 degrees and a speed of 152 knots. Authorities managed to retrieve 154 bodies ...

Compare that to this 1970s plane, which could only drop 200 gallons of water at a time ... used to fight fires were retired or salvaged World War II aircraft. Tanks were strapped to the middle ...