Turkey to unearth German-made WWII-era Focke-Wulf fighters, buried 'upon US request'

Daily Sabah ^ | 2016/10/14 | METIN CAN

[Paladin2]

Now fighters for Allah uber alles.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It would be interesting if they really are there.
Weren’t there some Spitfires unearthed in Southeast Asia recently?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Finding 50 of them is really impressive.

[ShivaFan]

Nice. But wish they found a bunch of perfect conidtion STUKA JUNKERS JU-87.

[ShivaFan]

Nice. But wish they found a bunch of perfect conidtion STUKA JUNKERS JU-87.

[ShivaFan]

sorry double post... not sure why this happens but I am on my smartphone and when it happens there is like this bizarre delay then freeze, when I esc it posts twice

[ameribbean expat]

Old Russian proverb: “Nothing stays buried forever.”

[Byron_the_Aussie]

.. Uluhan Hasdal, an amateur aviation historian, said the planes may still be operable ..

Uluhan's qualifications? Owns The Blue Max, on VHS.

[marktwain]

Buried in Turkey? Nothing but corroded metal by now.

[beethovenfan]

The FW190 was a really neat plane.

[plain talk]

Typical editor mistakes in the headline. The planes were not buried at the US’s request. The US wanted them destroyed and Turkey supposedly chose to bury and hide them for possible future use.

[dfwgator]

Never trust a Turk.

[tcrlaf]

Imagine an Oshkosh in tens years time...

A flight of FW-190’s dives down on a flight of B-17’s escorted by a flight of P-51’s.

And every kid’s eyes are filled with awe and wonder at the sights and sounds of it. (as well as mine.)

[TigerLikesRooster]

They get the story out in a hurry, leaving us to figure out fine details. That seems to be MOD for journo's all over the world. In this age of instant communication, accuracy is a distant second to speed. It does not help that the quality of journo's, questionable to start with, is declining fast in recent years.

[W.]

Oh, yes, rare jewels to be seen by all.

[BradyLS]

That would be great. But the something reminiscent of the lines of the Stuka flies in the form of the EMB 314 Super Tucano.

[W.]

There's an old saying, "Speed is deadly, but accuracy is fatal."

Today's Journos ate mere kidlings compared to the old guys.

[PLMerite]

“...and were reportedly buried for possible future use.”

Maybe they did something more than just bulldoze a trench. But 70 years, I dunno...

[BradyLS]

Something as close as you could get happened to me years ago when I visited the USS Lexington in Corpus Christie Bay. The Commemorative Air Force was doing a show that day and several vintage aircraft flew over and did a mock dogfight over the carrier.