Posted on 10/14/2016 8:14:01 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
There was a story a few years back about Spitfires that had been buried (in shipping crates, partially disassembled) in Malaysia. Never heard any more about the fate of those.
If the FWs were still in crates or packed away in someway maybe?
Going out on a limb here but I am going to say that the Focke-Wolf FW 190 were powered by BMW engines. Wouldn’t be surprised if they fired right up.
The tale of the Spitfires buried in Burma appears to have been a myth, unfortunately.
They were scrapped a long time ago.
France had some FW-190’s after the war too.
They found it far to difficult to maintain a combat plane whose source for parts was in rubble.
I can’t find anything that says they found Spitfires, but I do remember when it was in the news.
Properly buried a/c in crates might stand a better chance in Turkey (drier), than Burma (tropical). As for flyable, maybe if you “restored” it by replacing everything but the number plates.
Bull dozed into a pile and burned.Just like they did all over the world after the war.They didn’t do that in the pacific islands though.They pushed all the p38s into a revine at clark afb and set a match to them.I will be real surprised if they buried the 190s intact.
Nope.nothing yet and wont be.
LOL so true Byron, so true
This sounds exactly like the 50 Spitfires buried in Myanmar story of a few years ago which was equally rubbish.
If you want to store aircraft (or aircrafts as this article calls them) why would you bury them? I can’t think of a more absurd way to preserve and store aircraft than burying them under ground.
This will go like the 50 Spitfires buried in crates in Burma story ....nowhere
No that’s a myth no Spitfires found
Yes BMW 801
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Fokken Aye Right!
Nazi partisans continued to operate for 5 years after the end of the war.
The intent of the fighting was sought to end the war, as opposed to starting new wars using German equipment.
They may be able to be made flyable using CNC machines. The lack of parts may not be a problem. If the are bunkered rather buried.
Really pushing my luck now, but I’m gonna say the Fokker triplanes were powered by BMW engines also, and the Messerschmidts by Mercedes Benz. And the Spitfires by Rolls Royce.
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