Burried Spitfires

# 1 19-04-2012 , 06:07 AM

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Interesting article about a Lincolnshire farmer who had spent the last decade and a half to locate a shipment of brand new spitfires burried in the Burmese jungle still in their transport crates.

Just imagine. Original spitfires, no replacement parts, not a single hour flight time. I wonder if they will attempt to get some of thme back to flight status.

https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/17/...thed-in-burma/

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# 2 19-04-2012 , 08:28 AM

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I suspect there will be a lot of damage lets just hope they can save some...........dave

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# 3 19-04-2012 , 10:54 AM

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Would be great. Ground radar shows the crates to be still intact.

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# 4 21-04-2012 , 06:15 PM

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well they said they were in good condition. The only trouble from what I heard that could be a prob is that the spitfires rivets were originally made of magnesium, so any restored versions around now would have steel rivets...

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# 5 22-04-2012 , 04:06 AM

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Interesting artical mate...hopefully they will at least be able to get them out of Burma LOL. I read one yesterday on an Aussie pilot that went MIA...they finally found him in a field somewhere and laid him to rest....the Spitty cant be restored though as its too damaged.

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