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I'll be very interested to see the condition when they open that first crate.
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Will not lower the value at all, in fact it may go up because now there are airplanes to buy. Name your price if these are flying condition |
Looks like they're moving ahead on the "dig"
Excavators head to Burma hoping to uncover buried stash of WWII fighter planes | Fox News |
The Burmese Govt is keeping half of them - that's not how the story originally unfolded. Doesn't surprise me, though.
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Will this be like Geraldo Rivera's - Mystery of Al Capones Vault? Then we have some guy named Frazer Nash, the spokesman for a video game company from Belarus and started out as a promo. Fox News. Where's the photo's from when the camera was dropped down the hole? Just sounds quirky.
Anyway's hope it is true. BTW: I think most of us have seen the viral vid of Alain de Cadenet getting buzzed by a Spitfire but does he still own one? |
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Wow, what a story ... can't wait to see how it turns out !
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PPsmall correction, " it saved our Neck during the Battle of Brtain ".
The ROYAL AIRFOCE was glad to have the SPITFIRE but it had to have the HURRICANE. Francis K Mason. The Hawker Hurricane. During the Battle of Britain 80 per cent of all kills were made by the Hurricane. 80 |
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Argentina better be worried ..... ;)
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When i was in Nam there was a rumor we buried 6 helicopter and a tank in Chu lai.............
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Let the adventure begin:
Search for missing WWII Spitfire planes may have hit paydirt in Burma | Fox News |
muck + WWII aircraft + 60-70 years = sad.
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Says they were greased up before being buried. I hope it was a LOT of grease.
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About 30 years ago I subscribed to "Air Classics" magazine. I remember reading an article about American engineers doing the same thing in the Pacific at the end of the war. After VJ day the flow of planes and equipment into the Pacific theater didn't just switch off, it continued to flow into front line areas. I had read that on some islands engineers were ordered to simply bury the stuff - planes included. Unfortunately I don't have a clue as to the date of the issue I'd read it in. It didn't mention anything about being sealed in crates, etc.
Of course much of it came back to the states but it isn't too hard too believe. Look how much stuff was simply left in Viet Nam at the end of operations there. |
When this thread first started i showed it to a guy I work with who did a posting to the RNZAF Museum. He said the Brits were very good at preserving parts with grease. Especially for the likes of stuff crated and shipped by sea.
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Anyone see the "American hotrod" episode where Tulsa Ok had buried a brand new 1957 Chrysler belvedere in a time capsule 50 years ago, and they wanted Boyd Coddington's crew to get it running aftert they dug it up for the unveiling ceremony?
It too had been sitting under muddy water for 50 years, nuthin left but the crying. Obviously they weren't very good at using grease. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1357861578.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1357861591.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1357861600.jpg |
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LOL they'll all chryslers AFAIC.
I had a 57 chrysler once, or at least the engine out of one. Well not exactly, it was a donovan engine but it was loosely based on a 57 chrysler engine, sort of. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1357862724.jpg |
What year and make is this? Looks like grease all over that dash and such...
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That's not good news. I'm still hopeful they find something.
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I wonder if the metal detectors were picking up Marston matting buried at the airstrip? But then again, why or who would bury that? Post war raw material was in high demand.
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Why would you bury dozens of airplanes. Lots of people had to have been involved and rememberd lots of details, if it ever happened. It never made sense to me. More likely they were crated and SHIPPED.
The Iraq's buried some jets during the over run- But then look at who was managing their show... |
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Also here: Suplus aircraft dumped down mineshafts? |
The military pretty much invented the toss stuff into a hole in the ground mindset.
Not really a sustainable theory. They'll be mining landfills within 50 years. |
There was a French fleet sunk to prevent German capture during takeover.
And a German fleet sunk by saboteurs in a fyjord of Norway/Sweden to prevent introduction into the war. |
That's a damn shame.
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They dumped tons and tons of chemical ordnance in the sea as well after WO1
Seemed like a good idea at the time :rolleyes: |
I got to see Glacier Girl at the Reno Air Show a few years back. I had just seen the show about her a few weeks before. A real treat. The Spitfire find would be even cooler if true. Sad thing about the p-38 find was (to me) that the original guy finally went broke and turned the whole project over to some super rich guy who finally got her flying.
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Didn't it also crash after the first restoration? I thought I saw that or maybe imagining it? |
I don't remember that. I do recall that they recruited a pilot who was familiar with them to test fly it and he would not until they fixed a lot more.
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