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| Thread ID: 124258 | 2012-04-15 04:03:00 | Twenty Brand New Spitfires... | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
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| 1270135 | 2012-04-15 11:20:00 | They were suitably wrapped. Yup. From the article, it would seem there's a good possibility they are. Let's hope it's a great probability. Whatever, what a great find! |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1270136 | 2012-04-15 12:28:00 | Sounds like a bit of a legend (en.wikipedia.org) to me, something like the jeeps that are supposed to be buried under Queen Elizabeth Park in Paekakariki (by the Yanks before they left (WW2)). | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1270137 | 2012-04-15 15:23:00 | According to the Daily Telegraph the aircraft were in a knocked down state protectively packed and inhibited for tropical conditions and all fully cased. Possibly the cases may have rotted out in 70 years, but the aircraft could all be in salvageable condition, and with only post production test flight hours on the clock. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 1270138 | 2012-04-15 19:50:00 | Yeah like the Boeing seaplanes in North Head and the gold reef up the Karamea valley. All BS. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 1270139 | 2012-04-15 22:00:00 | I can't wait to see the sequel to this story. Good on David Cundall for his dogged searching. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1270140 | 2012-04-15 23:39:00 | This would quadrupole the world Spitfire population if this is indeed true especially if they can be restored to flying condition. I smell a remake of the Battle of Britain movie with real spitfires :-) | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1270141 | 2012-04-16 00:37:00 | I'm inclined to go along with Prefect's thoughts on this, unless this Cundall fella can present hard documented evidence. There is so much hogwash being repeated in these news reports, like Mountbatten being afraid of the planes being captured or destroyed by the Japs, this at a time when the Japs had been overun and defeated in Burma. So why bury them when a bit of explosive could do the job ? "British statesman Earl Mountbatten ordered the RAF to bury them in the summer of 1945 amid fears that they could be either used or destroyed by Japanese forces." From here:news.sky.com What rubbish! Burying suggests an intention to come back and retrieve at some time. There are links on this going back to 2001 www.yorkshirepost.co.uk www.ww2f.com www.forteantimes.com forum.keypublishing.co.uk |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1270142 | 2012-04-16 02:45:00 | Now here is a later and much more sensible and detailed Telegraph article about Cundall and the Spitfires which he says are MK XIV Griffon engined planes. No talk of burying because of being afraid of Japanese invasion, don't know where the papers got that rubbish from, or of MK II planes www.telegraph.co.uk |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1270143 | 2012-04-16 02:54:00 | Did my eyes till lies cause I'm pretty sure I read that they had been buried and have now been dug up and held in a secret location. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1270144 | 2012-04-16 03:04:00 | Now here is a later and much more sensible and detailed Telegraph article about Cundall and the Spitfires which he says are MK XIV Griffon engined planes. No talk of burying because of being afraid of Japanese invasion, don't know where the papers got that rubbish from, or of MK II planes www.telegraph.co.uk The junior journalists can't just copy each other so they have to change something. Facts are the easiest things to mix up :D "On land, you couldn’t leave them for the locals – they might have ended up being used against you." Burma and the Brits did come to a deal re independence and the Burmese Airforce was later supplied with ex Fleet Air Arm Spits and they also got some off the Israelis. If the Poms knew they had 20 in a hole why didn't they sell them? Maybe someone reported them "Thoroughly destroyed Sir!" before heading for the gin. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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