hey guys Adam Savage here from tested and from savage builds with a mystery
that I am hoping to solve using your help we're going to crowdsource a
solution to this mystery if possible in the last episode of savage builds I went
down to New Zealand to help Peter Jackson attach laser tag to to his World
War 1 airplanes and enjoy a genuine dogfight it's kind of like building a
time machine and Peter has one of the world's greatest collection of World War
1 aircraft over 60 of them in total many of them are replicas but also many
of them are originals that have been meticulously restored and Peter
sometimes will buy a plane that's been rotting in someone's attic for decades
and bring it back to New Zealand and carefully take it apart and put it back
together again and make it fly and this mystery involves one of those planes
what was actually amazing when we were building energy 5 as we found some wings
and a bomb that have been sitting here for 100 years
yeah original wings now the fabric was still there but it was obviously rotten
but the wood underneath was was I'm good so we carefully removed the fabric now
right in the in the front leading edge here there's a little there's a little
hollow and in in the wood and and in hollow there was a piece of paper rolled
up that we found as we remove the fabric this is fabric that had not been removed
for a hundred years so then we we wonder what it was we unroll it and it was a
beautiful pencil portrait of a pilot of a British British official upon it and
somebody had sketched that obviously of some friend of his or maybe it was a
self of a support right now who knows and and the wings must have been being
repaired at the time you know Baker 917 and he must have got the idea I'm gonna
roll this up because in a hundred years in New Zealand they're gonna find it and
we did we did and so what would be really interesting is if
we could find out the identity of the pilot because I mean there's there's
tons of photos of pilots from back then yeah I mean this squadrons like his big
blue photos of the entire squadron now now I'm not um I'm not here smart enough
to know to recognize this guy but I'm sure that there'll be people that maybe
we can crowdsourcing yeah yeah yeah see if we can give this give this person a
name I will put the word out and see see what we can find out back what is
amazing thing time capsule oh yeah for sure yeah well it's uh mean it's a time
capsule because somebody vaguely and thought yes I'm doing it because once
you once you cover the wing I mean the plane could have been shot two shot down
by by the Germans it could've been ruined it could have been destroyed I
mean there was no guarantee that that was good that whatever survived Andy and
Andy one of the very few original ec5 wings that actually made it through a
hundred years in a ban actually contained his picture whereas you know
there was like two or two or three thousand of these planes made and and
the other ones were just yeah we're just scrapped or shut down so he chose the
right wing Peter has this drawing and I have a copy of it in digital print out
of it right here and this is the drawing of this officer and here is what Peter
was hoping we could achieve by showing this on line is does this look like
anyone from your family does this look like a picture of your grandfather or
your great-grandfather do you have an idea of who this might be
because it would be fabulous to unravel literally this mystery and solve who is
this unknown British pilot as always leave your comments and your suggestions
as to who this might be in the comments below and hopefully we will solve this
mystery and if we do we'll be able to attach a name again to this handsome
young man it was no longer young you