Anyone for a brand new crated Spitfire?

[Stearmen]

Here you Go! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9638613/Revealed-the-wealthy-backer-helping-the-hunt-for-the-buried-Spitfires-of-Burma.html

 

[Story]

Same article, post #37

 

[Treetopflyer]

Have they actually dug any of them up yet or parts of them?

 

[Story]

Have they actually dug any of them up yet or parts of them?

No digging until January 2013, but here's some more hype.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/uk-dig-team-hunts-wwii-spitfires-myanmar-144347821.html

 

[Zemke Fan]

From the story...

"In a preliminary exploration, a borehole was dug which penetrated a crate and a shape that could be an aeroplane was identified. Experts determined that there was certainly something metallic at the site and that what is under the surface is not a natural feature."

Woo hoo!

 

[Jaguar66]

From the story...

"In a preliminary exploration, a borehole was dug which penetrated a crate and a shape that could be an aeroplane was identified. Experts determined that there was certainly something metallic at the site and that what is under the surface is not a natural feature."

Woo hoo!

[video=youtube;oOtfjcIfuYo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtfjcIfuYo[/video]

 

[Story]

Surveys at one of three sites identified in the country have shown large areas of electrically conductive material, suggesting the metal parts of the aircraft, around 30 feet deep.

The location and depth is consistent with eight eye witness reports given to Mr Cundall.

''We put a camera down a borehole and went into a box and through two inches of Canadian pine,'' Mr Cundall disclosed.

''Yes, we did see what we thought was an aeroplane.''

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/wor...-to-the-sky-20121129-2ahj0.html#ixzz2Ddo7AyMI

 

[Treetopflyer]

"participants insisted they are not motivated by money" to include the Myanmar government? Oh wait....."Myanmar government will keep 50 percent, according to agreements they have signed." ....and..."Myanmar's Spitfires will be put up for sale."

 

[NeilA]

Those planes belong in a museum!

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

Well, they weren't buried in the desert for a thousand years, but they are worth "considerably" more than they were when new.
One figure says that they cost $12,604 when new. I think they might sell for more than that now. In a way I feel sorry for Myanmar. It's a small way, but still... Most governments that potentially had a flight of Spitfires fall on their heads would be plotting which of their museums would get the booty. Myanmar would rather have the money. Although I suppose there will be a bunch of museums raising funds to buy one. So it's a win-win situation.

 

[Stearmen]

Project archaeologists are at pains to point out that no physical evidence has been uncovered yet.

Neither is there any obvious reason why an air force should take the trouble to pack and bury a near-obsolete model of aircraft.

Even lead archaeologist Andy Brockman concedes it might all turn out to be an elaborate wild goose chase.
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/farmer-digging-buried-wwii-spitfires-in-burma-5249206

 

[Story]

Hundreds of Spitfires and other aircraft that crashed during the Battle of Britain are still waiting to be unearthed across Britain, historians have disclosed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...parts-waiting-to-be-found-across-Britain.html

And a pensioner claimed a whole squadron of the planes could be found immaculately preserved under houses in Birmingham. Matt Queenan, 83, said he helped bury the planes in 1950 under instructions from the War Office, greasing them up and encasing them in boxes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/...uadron-of-Spitfires-buried-in-Birmingham.html

 

[Stearmen]

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/20929

 

[Asienizen]

I certainly hope they can recover enough parts to put together at least a few good airframes. I remember watching reels of the FAA dumping thousands of corsairs into the ocean due to the terms of lend lease and feeling horrified. Too bad aluminum doesn't do well in salt water.

 

[Stearmen]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-20910980

 

[Stearmen]

http://www.mysinchew.com/node/81704?tid=37

 

[Stearmen]

Their getting closer! http://world.time.com/2013/01/09/burma-spitfire-hunt-leads-to-water-filled-crate/

 

[Dixon Cannon]

Stand-by for incoming data: 'Encouraging Discovery' ≈ http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/10/encouraging-discovery-in-burmese-search-for-long-buried-wwii-spitfires/?intcmp=obinsite

-dixon cannon

 

[Phantomfixer]

hoping lack of oxygen will help preserve the planes? Will there be a lack of oxygen? I hope they get something out of this...Glacier Gal meets Mud Bath Gal.....

 

[Otter]

not looking like good news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21074699