Bob Cardin will make a special presentation on ‘Glacier Girl’ at the Lone Star Museum on January 11. [Courtesy: Lone Star Flight Museum]
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The Lone Star Flight Museum is hosting "Glacier Girl," a P-38F Lightning famous for being salvaged from beneath 268 feet of ice in Greenland.
"Glacier Girl" was part of the "Lost Squadron" that made an emergency landing in 1942 and was meticulously recovered in 1992 after 50 years, followed by a 10-year restoration.
Bob Cardin, the leader of the recovery expedition, will give a special presentation on January 11 at the museum, detailing the process of retrieving and restoring the aircraft.
Lone Star Flight Museum at Ellington Airport (KEFD) in Houston has a special visitor through the end of the month: Glacier Girl, the P-38F Lightning salvaged from beneath 268 feet of ice.
The aircraft is on loan from the Air Legends Foundation. According to museum officials, this is the first time the famous warbird has been on display there.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
