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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

5th Jan 2013, 08:51

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Spitfires found in Burma

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Posted By Agaricus bisporus

A "pit" 30 feet deep and big enough for 30 crated...

A "pit" 30 feet deep and big enough for 30 crated aircraft is by any other name a railway cutting. There was a war on. They had enough machinery and people to do that? - and why? WHY? No logical...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

28th Dec 2012, 16:29

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

I rest my case! Buddy, RAF crates were made...

I rest my case!

Buddy, RAF crates were made of matchwood. Wooden packing cases. They were barely weather proof, no way waterproof. You talk as though they were hermetically sealed and rot proof....

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

28th Dec 2012, 13:31

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

Bookies...now there's another bizarre aspect of...

Bookies...now there's another bizarre aspect of delusional human behaviour that's not too dissimilar to this buried treasure lark. The ability of people to firmly believe in something that they are...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

17th Dec 2012, 16:19

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

Well well, so all these years I've been under the...

Well well, so all these years I've been under the illusion that post-war disposal was to get rid of surplus inventory and recycle valuable metals when all along it was to keep them out of the hands...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

29th Oct 2012, 00:17

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

More unexpected buried military assets here -...

More unexpected buried military assets here - this hoard would solve the UK Forces manpower shortage at a stroke. Dig 'em up quick, dust 'em down and pack 'em off to the 'stan!
Just hope they were...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

16th Aug 2012, 15:21

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

Surely if you were that worried you'd send the...

Surely if you were that worried you'd send the bits to a smelter to make sure? Again, (as with burying Spitfires) its hard to see any logic in it. That is, if they (Have Blue or Spitfires) were...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

15th Aug 2012, 14:19

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

So that in 70 years time someone can start a...

So that in 70 years time someone can start a rumour about three squadrons of brand new ones in boxes that they are going to dig up...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

23rd Apr 2012, 11:11

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

My God! Now we discover there are fleets of B17s...

My God! Now we discover there are fleets of B17s buried in the USA, and I'll wager no one knew that little gem until now!

They must have had a vast surplus of time and buldozers to achieve that...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

19th Apr 2012, 12:50

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

There is no way the Japs were doing anything but...

There is no way the Japs were doing anything but retreating in Aug 45. They were all but thrown back to the home islands by then and the first A bomb dropped on the 6th (?). The was all but over bar...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

17th Apr 2012, 11:01

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

"So I've heard". "rumoured". Quite. The...

"So I've heard". "rumoured".

Quite.

The odd thing is that almost every airfield I've worked at has some "rumour" of piles of buried aircraft/engines/jeeps etc but its even more odd that no...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

14th Apr 2012, 09:48

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,894

Posted By Agaricus bisporus

"Huge Saxon Gold Treasure Hoard "May" be found in...

"Huge Saxon Gold Treasure Hoard "May" be found in Your Garden!"

Quite.

How many dozen hoards of buried unused and crated aircraft have we been told about over the years? And how many have...

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