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Spitfire in the sand

The Spitfire beer picture is from HMVForum site and the comments about the dog and pony show in Burma are getting cruel over there.

Gord

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Originally Posted by Phil Waterman (Post 174585)

Great photo, knowing the vagaries of internet search wonder how many people out side of MLU will find it and wonder what's up.

Good chuckle

Cheers Phil

Lots, I hope :devil:

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra (Post 174569)

Stop press: SPITFIRE EXCAVATED!

See attached picture courtesy of HMVF

Hi Hanno

Great Photo. I know me and a lot of my old Army buddies would have loved to dig up a cache of "Sealed" Spitfire bottles, bugger the planes, party time. :cheers:

Cheers

Tony :no4:

5:28am, Fri 18 Jan 2013
'There are no Spitfires': The dream has ended in the hunt for buried British planes

http://www.itv.com/news/2013-01-18/t...ritish-planes/

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra (Post 174650)

5:28am, Fri 18 Jan 2013
'There are no Spitfires': The dream has ended in the hunt for buried British planes

http://www.itv.com/news/2013-01-18/t...ritish-planes/

Hi Hanno

Oh well, back to the old drawing board, It was I suppose just an eccentric man's dream. We all thought of the dig with a "tongue in cheek" attitude we will now have to find another project to keep the thread going as this one dies. :D :D

Cheers

Tony :no4:

Did I ever tell you about the time I was abducted by aliens? It was while I was on a trip, looking for the loch ness monster. The ship was shaped a bit like a spitfire, just different in every way. :devil:

Aliens were from uranus! :D The landing site was in Area 51, which is of course where the fake moon landing was staged. Also the home of the sasquatch/bigfoot/yeti/abominable snowman/julia gillard.

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Originally Posted by Little Jo (Post 174656)

we will now have to find another project to keep the thread going as this one dies.

Cheers
Tony :no4:

Ok, how about all those buried trucks, road building equipment & supplies on the Alaska Highway. Too expensive to bring back so line them up and cover with dirt.

Maybe the MVPA Alaska convoy was just a cover for a recon mission. :cheers:

Were those aliens circling uranus looking for klingons?

Why yes they were! But all they found was the captains log!!!

The farce is becoming more farcical as time goes on.

Look! A piece of buried PSP just like the stuff on the fences around here!

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...1_2456258c.jpg

How about Supermarine Seafires in Lake Ontario

The crate they found contained muddy water (not to be confused with Muddy Waters)

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/21/...spitfire-hunt/

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Originally Posted by Little Jo (Post 174656)

It was I suppose just an eccentric man's dream....we will now have to find another project to keep the thread going as this one dies.

Don't worry folks, the Spits may have been a hoax, but apparently he's picked up a genuine lead on a pristine B29, and I have to admit it does seem more credible this time.

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Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler (Post 175255)

Don't worry folks, the Spits may have been a hoax, but apparently he's picked up a genuine lead on a pristine B29, and I have to admit it does seem more credible this time.

Hi Tony

Here we go again, Ha Ha Ha..well at least we are keeping the thread alive. I wait with baited breath for the first report from the moon. :D :D :D

Cheers

Tony :no4:

No doubt has Amelia Airhart at the controls, and Glen Miller sitting in the back!

Those Pesky Aliens!;)

Yeah!.......They keep shifting things in my shed. ..... Colin,......would they have tele-thingyed all the bits at once, or a box at a time?

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Originally Posted by Little Jo (Post 175265)

I wait with baited breath for the first report from the moon.

Great news! It's been confirmed!

Thats just a black & white photo of my cats litter box with a 1/72 model in it!

If you look closely, you can see the lumps! :devil:

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Originally Posted by Private_collector (Post 175283)

Thats just a black & white photo of my cats litter box with a 1/72 model in it!

If you look closely, you can see the lumps! :devil:

Hi Tony

You are correct, you beat me to it, great minds think alike... :note

Cheers

Tony :no4:

Oh oh. Here comes richard the iii

Hi Guys

Oh well, back to the old drawing board. On another note, at least the skeleton found buried under a council car park in Northern England at has been positively identified by DNA that the bones found were those of missing King Richard III of England.:remember
Cheers

Tony :no4:

So here is a buried plane that seems to be the real deal ....

'Stuff' down the Old Mines

Would anyone be interested in details on wartime stores dumped down mineshafts in the Midlands ?

Roddy

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Originally Posted by Roddy1011 (Post 175805)

Would anyone be interested in details on wartime stores dumped down mineshafts in the Midlands ?

Roddy

Absolutely, go for it! :thup2:

Yep very interested

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Originally Posted by Roddy1011 (Post 175805)

Would anyone be interested in details on wartime stores dumped down mineshafts in the Midlands ?

Roddy

Hi Roddy

Go for it mate, just love those stories of what us restores like to cry over. :D

Cheers

Tony

What about the tunnels around Sydney full of WW2 equipment or a more local one about the mineshafts in the Grampiams in Victoria full of Harley Davidsons?

Will they ever end...then there's Benitos Treasure at Queenscliff....

Shock! Horror!
source

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NO BURIED SPITFIRES IN MYANMAR
THE sponsor of a British-led team hunting for dozens of rare World War II Spitfires said to have been buried in Myanmar has abandoned the search, saying stories of the stashed planes are merely "legend".
Rumours that dozens of the iconic single-seat aircraft were buried in 1945 by Britain, the former colonial power in what was then Burma, had excited military history enthusiasts, but surveys at Yangon airport in the Mingaladon district have failed to bear fruit.
The project backer, online game company Wargaming, said the team "now believes, based on clear documentary evidence, as well as the evidence from the fieldwork, that no Spitfires were delivered in crates and buried at RAF Mingaladon during 1945 and 1946".
Lead archaeologist Andy Brockman said the investigation into the stories of buried Spitfires was undertaken in the spirit of US television forensic police series "CSI" (Crime Scene Investigation).
"We followed the clues in the documents, period maps, pictures and air photographs; we talked to surviving witnesses, and visited the 'crime scene' in order to turn our study in the archives into facts on the ground," he said.
"As a result we believe that the legend of the buried Spitfires of Burma is just that: a captivating legend about a beautiful and iconic aircraft."
In a statement released late on Friday, Wargaming said the search for Spitfires in Myanmar was rooted in persistent rumours that began among servicemen in "the bars and canteens of South East Asia" as early as 1946.
It added that no surviving witnesses had actually seen planes being buried and that its research in British archives had failed to produce any evidence of the arrival of the aircraft in Myanmar in the latter months of the war.
But a local businessman involved in the project, Htoo Htoo Zaw, on Saturday vowed to continue the planned digs in the northern city of Myitkyina and Yangon airport, signalling a split within the team.
"We haven't started any digging yet. So how can we say for sure whether there are Spitfires or not?" he told AFP.
It was unclear to what extent the excavations would continue and project leader David Cundall -- a farmer and aircraft enthusiast who has spent around 17 years chasing the Spitfires -- was not immediately reachable for comment.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news...#ixzz2L2hA6C5E

Hi Keith

Oh well that's it then. Well we dreamed for a while there anyway. Seeing how popular the site was with so many hits, we had better find another project to keep the site alive. I hear they sighted that darned Yeti again. :cheers:

Cheers

Tony :no4:

Gander at these, while 'coming down'!