“New images have been released of the last surviving example of a World War Two German bomber, the Dornier 17, lying underwater on the Goodwin Sands off Kent.
The RAF Museum in Hendon is trying to raise money to raise the plane from the seabed, nicknamed "the flying pencil." It was used by Nazi Germany to pummel southern Britain during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz.”
“Now a high-tech sonar survey undertaken by the Port of London Authority (PLA) has revealed the aircraft to be in a startling state of preservation.
Ian Thirsk, from the RAF Museum at Hendon in London, told the BBC he was "incredulous" when he first heard of its existence and potential preservation.”
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