Burma Spitfires Merged thread. Put all new info in here please.

[Fergal69]

damn - thought I got in first with this bit of news

[Walshy]

I play World of Tanks as well as Cliffs of Dover and I read this over at the World of Tanks EU forum!

Wargaming to fund quest for Spitfires!

Don't konw what it means for the Spitfires and the original dicoverer David Cundall ... It looks like the hunt is being taken seriously.

[major_setback]

I honestly think that funding is the main problem. Funding itself is probably the goal. Not the recovery of anything else.
The real treasure comes from the dreamers who are willing to part with their money.

[RedToo]

Interesting interview here:

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/int...-burma/1038352

RedToo.

[Miss Shilling's orifice]

Very exciting and especially that they are crated. My father was involved in the recovery of WWII aircraft and parts around Australia's Northern Territory. As a kid, I remember seeing buried Spitfires at the old Gorrie Airfield but they had seemingly been roughly shunted into shallow graves and covered up.

[Feathered_IV]

It's interesting that the story has struck such a chord in the mainstream press. It is a shame that there is still no evidence of so much as a tail wheel though.

[arthursmedley]

Three things strike me as interesting about this story now, apart from the obvious one of how this story has travelled without one single scrap of physical evidence, documentary evidence or eyewitness reports and they are;

1) The disappearance of Steve Boultbee-Brooks, the British "Donald Trump" lol, from this story. A man with serious money, serious political connections and his own school to train Spitfire pilots! He travelled out to Burma earlier in the year with his own team to survey the "evidence" before committing money to this project. Could their own investigations in Burma convinced them that this is pie in the sky?

2) The "Geophysical survey" was conducted by a grad student with a powerful metal detector not the ground penetrating radar that had "revealed the outlines of crates" according to Mr. Cundell's earlier statements when this story broke.

3) They hit some wood with their digger but decided not to investigate what the wood was or what was beneath it!!? Come on......after fifteen years and tens of thousands of pounds and a search that has taken over this guy's life they decide to cover it up before having a peek!!!

That seems to fly in the face of human nature to me but we shall see.

[Miss Shilling's orifice]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

Three things strike me as interesting about this story now, apart from the obvious one of how this story has travelled without one single scrap of physical evidence, documentary evidence or eyewitness reports and they are;

1) The disappearance of Steve Boultbee-Brooks, the British "Donald Trump" lol, from this story. A man with serious money, serious political connections and his own school to train Spitfire pilots! He travelled out to Burma earlier in the year with his own team to survey the "evidence" before committing money to this project. Could their own investigations in Burma convinced them that this is pie in the sky?

2) The "Geophysical survey" was conducted by a grad student with a powerful metal detector not the ground penetrating radar that had "revealed the outlines of crates" according to Mr. Cundell's earlier statements when this story broke.

3) They hit some wood with their digger but decided not to investigate what the wood was or what was beneath it!!? Come on......after fifteen years and tens of thousands of pounds and a search that has taken over this guy's life they decide to cover it up before having a peek!!!

That seems to fly in the face of human nature to me but we shall see.

Yes, that last part of the story about finding the "crate" yet not opening it has shades of the Oak Island "money pit" malarkey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Isl..._the_Money_Pit

[maxwellbest]

Hmmm. Does seem to be a pie in the sky kind of thing.."yeah, we hit wood, then stopped due to..(insert spin)". This could qualify as a media hoax.

[Walshy]

Seems like the project to recover them is to go ahead in January! Viktor Kisily CEO of Wargaming is funding the project! Burmese Spitfires