Please let them find these Spitfires!

[onewhippedpuppy]

I'll be very interested to see the condition when they open that first crate.

[Jim Bremner]

Originally Posted by rcooled

I wonder if current Spitfire owners are concerned about how this'll affect the value of their planes. Kind of like finding an additional fifty Ferrari GTOs stashed in some forgotten warehouse.

Cool story nonetheless...can't wait to see some photos!

Bitter sweet.

[romad]

Originally Posted by rcooled

I wonder if current Spitfire owners are concerned about how this'll affect the value of their planes. Kind of like finding an additional fifty Ferrari GTOs stashed in some forgotten warehouse.

Cool story nonetheless...can't wait to see some photos!

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

[bmcuscgr94]

Looks like they're moving ahead on the "dig"


Excavators head to Burma hoping to uncover buried stash of WWII fighter planes | Fox News

[KNS]

The Burmese Govt is keeping half of them - that's not how the story originally unfolded. Doesn't surprise me, though.

[intakexhaust]

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?

[Hawkeye's-911T]

Sub'd

[Doug E]

Wow, what a story ... can't wait to see how it turns out !

[Pierre911SC]

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

[Joe Bob]

BBC News - British team in Burma begin lost Spitfire hunt

[sammyg2]

Argentina better be worried .....

[afterburn 549]

When i was in Nam there was a rumor we buried 6 helicopter and a tank in Chu lai.............

[bmcuscgr94]

Let the adventure begin:

Search for missing WWII Spitfire planes may have hit paydirt in Burma | Fox News

[pavulon]

muck + WWII aircraft + 60-70 years = sad.

[gamin]

Says they were greased up before being buried. I hope it was a LOT of grease.

[KNS]

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.

[J1NX3D]

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.

[sammyg2]

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.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Anyone see the "American hotrod" episode where Tulsa Ok had buried a brand new 1957 Chrysler belvedere in a time capsule 50 years ago,

That's a Plymouth, not a Chrysler...

[sammyg2]

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.