Haraka, I reckon those aircraft would have a far better chance of survival than the Burma Spitfires.

Anyone got a spare few million so we can go Stirling hunting? Not sure we've got any of those preserved have we?

What is the Stirling exchange rate in Egypt at the moment?

Have a dig around Edzell, in Scotland. That was the Halifax and Stirling disposal unit after the war. My father used to ferry brand new Hailfaxs from the factory to there to be scrapped.

BURMA UPDATE: Hunt for lost Spitfires ‘buried in crates’ continues as JCBs dig trenches around Burmese airport. | Forces-War-Records


Well you would have thought they would have kept the old boy on to see them raised instead of shipping him off "Surplus to Requirements"

Maybe he had nicked the clocks out of them and didn't want to be found out.

Well if he was "surplus to requirements" it's a wonder they didn't put him in crate and bury him too.;)

BBC reporting that archaeologists no longer believe there are any Spitfires.


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Keep Digging! :ok:

For more money from the backers or the Spitfires :O

Australian finds 5.5Kg gold nugget:

BBC News - Australian amateur prospector finds massive gold nugget

Maybe they should have dug in Australia

Well their is that much Gold and Gold nuggets left
in the ground but within metal detector range it will
keep being found for years :O

People make a living out of it !

So you are probably right !!!

Not so much Spitfires, more like Zeros.

Well some consolation from the project, Burma motorists will enjoy following a couple of JCB diggers at 7:30am on the roads each day now. This is globalisation...

PS: The Spitfires may rust in peace now...:{:{

Spitfires that Never Were.
 

maliyahsdad2,

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the link to the BBC story (if only for the gorgeous pic of the Mk. XXII).

Rest of it sad, but predictable. But good fun while it lasted !

Danny42C

And my old man, an RAF fireman, then took a chainsaw to them and then buldozered them into a hole at the end of the runway - crated engines as well (he says!)

Stirlings
 

Just a parting shot on the Kasfareet Stirling saga.
Haraka senior witnessed their burial around 1947 at the latest ( he was back at St. Eval in 1948) . Others have confirmed on the internet that some 7 or so Stirlings were there around that time, and also certainly were out of sight and mind by 1951.
The RAF Museum did ask for a survey from the Egyptians in 1986 apparently ( some 40 years after the event) . I don't know anything about any results of this enquiry.

I can remember a Stirling at a Battle of Britain display when I was a small child - the undercarriage!!!!