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

[arthursmedley]

Or...there were no Lancs there in the first place! To save face the good Doctor at the heart of the Lanc story convinced himself (but few others) that "unusual" soil conditions had oxidised the aluminium and er....all those steel fittings, engine cradles, turret motors, etc., leaving just a residue that ground radar-that boon of archaeological wishful thinking-had picked up.

This Burma story is just another example but mixed in with a rather too gullible PR advisor to our PM. That don't really matter 'cause our mainstream media have now moved on to another sound-bite.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

Or...there were no Lancs there in the first place! To save face the good Doctor at the heart of the Lanc story convinced himself (but few others) that "unusual" soil conditions had oxidised the aluminium and er....all those steel fittings, engine cradles, turret motors, etc., leaving just a residue that ground radar-that boon of archaeological wishful thinking-had picked up.

This Burma story is just another example but mixed in with a rather too gullible PR advisor to our PM. That don't really matter 'cause our mainstream media have now moved on to another sound-bite.

lol maybe, I dunno much more about the Lancs, but this is another story apparently.. a bit of wishful thinking never hurt anybody anyway, all we can do is wait, we should be pretty well used by now

[MB_Avro_UK]

Thanks Mr Smedley for the Lanc story. Buried facing east... and in hessian of course.

Made my day.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

This time we're talking about crated and preserved stuff, not just wrapped and buried.

It's still burma.
Maybe they put them into pelican cases...

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by swiss

It's still burma.
Maybe they put them into pelican cases...

hehehe maybe!

[NZtyphoon]

Just to complete the picture...http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/05/achtung-spitfires/

Looks very much like we'll be waiting a very long time...

[Sternjaeger II]

Guys, you have no idea how many aircraft even rarer than these Burmese Spitfires are stored all over the world.

Did you know there are 2 Bf-109F-4, two proper JG5 battle veterans, in near airworthy conditions stored in the US, one of them being for sale at $3mil?
Or that there are a Ju-87B2 and an Il-2 Sturmovik being restored to airworthy conditions in the UK?
Or that there's a Fiat G.59 being reconverted to Fiat G.55 in Germany?
Collectors tend to keep this stuff away from the public eye because there's far too many anoraks or people that want to chip in with their "skillz". It's sad but that's the way it is fellas..

[WTE_Galway]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

Collectors tend to keep this stuff away from the public eye because there's far too many anoraks or people that want to chip in with their "skillz". It's sad but that's the way it is fellas..

Or in the case of SE Asia ... the local villagers upon finding a miraculously preserved warbird can either blab about it and have it carted off by a bunch of foreigners and not get a cent ... or take a hatchet to it and live comfortably for several years on the proceeds of the scrap metal sales.

[Fergal69]

They've found some Spitfires in Burma......

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...rma-excavation

[JG52Uther]

Already posted

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=35043