Fellow club member of mine got a little carried away weathering his Chipmunk. Personally, I don't think leaving it in a swamp partially underwater for two years was a good technique!

He should have left it there for future archeologists (possibly apes) to find and puzzle over.

I am thinking there has to me more to this story......

pretty wild looking

Thanks for posting the recovered plane pic, very cool stuff.

There was a great story in my area ...
A guy bought one the first bigger glow engines when they first came out. The first day he was flying it.. the engine ripped out..stayed running a few seconds and hurled itself into a pretty good section of timber just off the runway. Well people looked for it for quite awhile.. then it turned into lore...when people would retrieve another plane years later other fliers would tell them
"Look for that engine"
Year after year goes by... then something like 20 years later a guy mushroom hunting finds it.. It was so corroded and awful considering it had been lost brand new. I think I posted a pic of it years ago...

It ended up at the local hobby shop, and then was tragically thrown away.. it should have been saved for ever at the new field club house...