The story says that the crates were dragged into a gully and laid side by side, then covered over. In the 1944 photo taken of Mingaladon, supposed to be the area of the dig, I see no sign of a gully big enough to take more than a dozen crates the size of those ten foot wide by ten foot high - that would also be about thirty feet long - as shown in the geophysist's photo of a crated Spitfire being unloaded in Malta?
Edited to add: Looking at the Geophysicists image, it matches the footprint of the buildings shown in the 1944 aerial photo. So a very small part of the Gully would be located at the extremes of the top left hand corner of the picture and be located off the airport, next to the road.
Last edited by Blacksheep; 10th Jan 2013 at 10:51.