Download message from Google group - google-groups

I need to download an archived google group.
Following link is one of the messages of that group for example.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.aeronautics/ViFtpXfVm7M
The problem is, what i see in the browser does not appear in the downloaded webpage.
With my very limited knowledge, It seems to me like the reason behind it is this content is dynamically created by java-script. Or else, these downloaded files are with so called 'mbox' extension which is encrypted ?
What I've tried so far
First trys
Simple download
wget https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sci.aeronautics/ViFtpXfVm7M
With mirror
wget --mirror https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sci.aeronautics/ViFtpXfVm7M
Assuming its encrypted
With cookies.
wget --load-cookies=cookies.txt https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sci.aeronautics/ViFtpXfVm7M
Got thunderbird to setup my gmail and opening. did not open correctly
Assuming the content was javascript generated
Downloaded using phantomJS
https://askubuntu.com/questions/411540/how-to-get-wget-to-download-exact-same-web-page-html-as-browser
Downloaded using phantomJS with a different script
https://gist.github.com/giocomai/247d54e097b5083e2451
Used scripts available from Github
https://github.com/henryk/gggd
https://github.com/icy/google-group-crawler
But none did not work so far.
Can anyone please shed some light on how to download this page with its message as a readable html or txt file ?
Cheers
AyyoSalli

You could use https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/sci.aeronautics/msgs/atom.xml?num=100 to get some of the posts - but it only gets roughly half the posts in this case.
And it has all the messages from all topics together.
View it in Firefox or Classic Opera to see directly in a more human-readable form.
But since you say you already got a file in standard mbox format, what exactly is wrong with it - did you attempt to import it into a locally installed email or newsclient ? (like Thunderbird)

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