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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Jun 2016, 09:50

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Spitfires found in Burma

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Posted By Mark22

Onetrack, Post#290 In your experience what...

Onetrack, Post#290

In your experience what would be that sizeable number of determined, poverty-stricken and deprived third-world people that would be required to totally remove 100 aircraft with...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

21st Jan 2013, 14:19

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Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,878

Posted By Mark22

In contrast to Fergal Keane's BBC report,...

In contrast to Fergal Keane's BBC report, basically - there are no Spitfires in Burma, this interview with the Sunday Telegraph over this past weekend.

Video: Burma spitfires: search still on,...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

10th Jan 2013, 22:48

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Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,878

Posted By Mark22

Lone Ranger - quote You saying that is not a...

Lone Ranger - quote

You saying that is not a piece of scrap and but rather a restorable aircraft part ?....a career in a TV docu-drama awaits

Of course it is scrap. My point - it is in...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

9th Jan 2013, 13:17

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Spitfires found in Burma

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Posted By Mark22

The waterlogged crate was partially exposed last...

The waterlogged crate was partially exposed last week by a Burmese member of the secondary team at Myitkyina, which is about 1000 miles, give or take, north of Rangoon.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

8th Jan 2013, 23:35

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Spitfires found in Burma

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Posted By Mark22

MA764/G-MCDB. :)

MA764/G-MCDB. :)

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

7th Jan 2013, 22:08

Replies: 300

Spitfires found in Burma

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Posted By Mark22

Obviously you are both very well informed. :) ...

Obviously you are both very well informed. :)

Here is a shot of a Spitfire being pulled out of wet claggy clay in November 2005. The roundel and aluminium are pristine.

You might think that...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

7th Jan 2013, 15:44

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Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,878

Posted By Mark22

Quote: Given that nowadays it seems that all...

Quote:
Given that nowadays it seems that all you need is a surviving manufacturer's ID plate, and you can "restore" an aircraft around it, you are technically correct.

A data plate is not a...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

6th Jan 2013, 15:19

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Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,878

Posted By Mark22

Quote:- My puzzle is why dig a huge pit 30 feet...

Quote:- My puzzle is why dig a huge pit 30 feet deep

You don't dig a hole 30 ft deep, actually 40 ft deep. You clear and expand a chuang, an old waterway gully, using the Seabees facilty, in...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

28th Dec 2012, 15:39

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Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,878

Posted By Mark22

If there are Spitfires there they are likely to...

If there are Spitfires there they are likely to be distorted/crushed and substantially corroded in my view.

That said, they would still yield a large cache of expensive componentry, fittings and a...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

17th Dec 2012, 14:37

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Spitfires found in Burma

Views: 764,878

Posted By Mark22

Blacksheep. Quote:- "....with many...

Blacksheep.

Quote:-

"....with many transferred to the Indian and Burmese governments in 1945."

I think you would find it very difficult to support that with facts.

Transfers to the...

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