What year and make is this? Looks like grease all over that dash and such...

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The Burma govt is keeping half, and one investor gets 20%, then the farmer in the UK who found them gets the remaining 30%.

Hope that they are all happy!

Regarding the "hope they are greased" comments... anyone who has been in the military and had to take cosmoline off of a weapon or equipment knows how well the stuff protects and what a bear it is to get off. The Brits were very good at this so lets see...

latest:

Hunt for lost Spitfires 'buried in crates' continues as JCBs dig trenches around Burmese airport | Mail Online

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GLACIER GIRL P-38

Zilch. Zip. Nada. Goose egg. <sigh>

Archaeologists believe no Spitfires buried in Burma

I'm now starting to wonder a bit.. but still hoping for the best

Cheers
JB

That's not good news. I'm still hopeful they find something.

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.

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...

This has been done for years now. Especially after the end of a war, if there is surplus of anything, its usually disposed of. If you are on an aircraft carrier, its dumped over the side as was done off Australia shown here: 1945: HMS PIONEER ditching planes off Sydney after WWII - Fleet Air Arm Archive 1939-1945 [RN] website. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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.

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.

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.

Dogfight over buried WWII Spitfires in Burma | Fox News

Wait! they found them? WTF?