140 Crated Spitfires buried in Burma (Myanmar)?

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Yes it's hit the Melbourne press too. Does that mean it's all true?

Hi Keith
Gees mate, I sure hope they find something as it would be a great anti climax after all the thread time we have given it since the news of the "alleged" find was announced. Anyway it will, or should be an interesting dig. Probably end up like "Time Team " and find nothing but an old shoe or something.

Cheers

Tony

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Little Jo

Hi Keith
Gees mate, I sure hope they find something as it would be a great anti climax after all the thread time we have given it since the news of the "alleged" find was announced. Anyway it will, or should be an interesting dig. Probably end up like "Time Team " and find nothing but an old shoe or something.

Cheers

Tony

I enjoy Time Team but I can just see it now: "Geophys let us down AGAIN!"

[Private_collector]

Yes, but will they only have three days to do the dig, and be lead by Baldrick?

[Little Jo]

Hey Guys

That's what I love about the MLU fraternity we can aways find fun in all we do, right or wrong. I am sure we will hear more from the dig site to keep us in suspense.

Cheers

Tony

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by Private_collector

Yes, but will they only have three days to do the dig, and be lead by Baldrick?

............as he runs around waving his arms and saying, "we will dig here ........here ........... and here"

[Lang]

Latest report in today's paper. "We have dug a hole and found waterlogged wood which we believe is a Spitfire case. As soon as we pump the water out we expect to find the aircraft in excellent condition"

Good luck!

[Little Jo]

Originally Posted by Lang

Latest report in today's paper. "We have dug a hole and found waterlogged wood which we believe is a Spitfire case. As soon as we pump the water out we expect to find the aircraft in excellent condition"

Good luck!

Hi Lang

Lookslike they may have hit the jackpot, starting to get interesting, I hope they release constant reports and post photos. Looking forward to the next installment.

Cheers

Tony

[motto (RIP)]

Waterlogged wood huh? Don't expect to see them flying any time soon then.

Aircraft disposal at the end of the war was generally accompanied by wholesale butchery. I well remember visiting a pile of aircraft debris the size of a house at Malahang beach just outside Lae, PNG back in the '70s. This was all that remained of an unknown number of aircraft that were reputed to have been chopped up and fed into a smelter brought in for the purpose. The pile was made up of the non aluminium stuff the scrappies didn't want such as armour plate, stainless steel heat shielding, ammunition feed ducting etc.

It's probably been cleaned up by a later generation of scrappies but at the time provided good pickings for the aircraft restoration fraternity.

There was another site just outside Finchaven where numerous P40's had been disposed of. There were remains scattered through the jungle and walking down the creek there were wings and fuselages sticking out of the bank from the ones that were buried.

David

[Marc van Aalderen]

Originally Posted by Lang

Latest report in today's paper. "We have dug a hole and found waterlogged wood which we believe is a Spitfire case. As soon as we pump the water out we expect to find the aircraft in excellent condition"

Good luck!

So they might turn out to be Seafires then? Of the ditched variety..

[Mrs Vampire]

well as something to look at until the spits turn up . That's Laverton ....Gordons Yard. He wrecked the one and only Hurricane that came to Australia a photo of which I have in this series.