Originally Posted by Lou Scannon
I was talking to an old friend last night about this "buried aircraft" nonsense
Years before I got involved in aviation I used to work with an old timer mechanic who was called up from our then employer to re-train as an engine fitter for the RAF, for second world war service.
His last job before de-mob and return to our employer was to unpack crates of Merlins, knock a hole in the side of the crankcases with a sledgehammer and
bury them.
I can't remember the airfield he was based at and he has passed on so I can't ask him. But he was no aviation anorak with fantasies of buried treasure, he was an engineer lamenting the ruination of engineering masterpieces.