Evolution
Glacier
Girl
On July 15 1942,
six P-38 fighter planes and two B-17 Flying Fortress bombers crash-landed on
the icy wastes of Greenland's east coast. Except for one, all of the planes
landed with their wheels up and were only lightly damaged. About nine days later
all the crewmen were rescued unharmed by dogsled,. However, the planes had to
be abandoned where they had slid to a stop.83
In 1980, US airplane dealer Patrick Epps decided to salvage the planes. He told his friend, architect Richard Taylor, that the planes would be like new. "All we'd have to do is shovel the snow off the wings, fill them with gas, crank them up and fly them off into the sunset. Nothing to it."83
However, after many years, much money and several failed expeditions, they finally located the airplanes beneath the ice in 1988 with the aid of a sophisticated form of radar. When the planes were found, scientists were astonished to learn that so much ice - more than 250 ft (75 m) of it had entombed the planes in such a short time. None of the discoverers had thought that the planes could possibly be buried under more than a light cover of snow and ice. Interestingly, the planes under the ice were in exactly the same pattern in which they had landed except they had been moved (by glacial flow) three miles from their original location!83
But what if the
aircraft had simply sunk through the ice to the depth where they were found?
To attain forward directional stability, aircraft must have their center of
mass ahead of what is termed their "aerodynamic center." The center
of mass is moved forwards by placing engines and other heavy elements towards
the front and adding control surfaces such as tail fins whose surface area pulls
the aerodynamic center to the rear. The consequence is that, barring control
mechanisms acting, an aircraft will pitch forward and fall nose-down when allowed
to fall freely through a medium whether air, water or ice. So if the aircraft
had indeed moved down through existing ice, they would all have been found in
the same nose-down position. They were not. So the planes could not have sunk
through the ice; they were buried by the accumulation of snow (which becomes
ice as it is compacted.83
Evolutionists and other long-agers often say that "the present is the key
to the past." In that case, the 3000-meter-long ice core brought up by
the joint European Greenland Ice-core Project in Greenland in the 1990s would
only represent some 2,000 years of accumulation. Allowing, of course, for compression
of lower layers, (which is also offset by the inevitable aftermath of a global
flood, namely much greater precipitation and snowfall for a few centuries.)
there is ample time in the 4,000 or so years since Noah's day for the existing
amounts of ice to have built up even under today's generally non-catastrophic
conditions.83
Once again, there is evidence that geological changes do not necessary require the millions of years that evolutionary science expects.83
In May, 1992, Epps and Taylor located one of the P-38s under the ice in superb condition. After many weeks of intense effort, the wings and fuselage were brought to the surface. The pieces were flown to a Greenland port by helicopter and then sea-freighted to the US for final restoration. The airplane was meticulously restored to its former glory using 80% of its original parts. After more than 50 years, the P-38 (nicknamed "Glacier Girl"), flew again on October 26, 2002.83,84