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Frozen in the sands of time: Eerie Second World War RAF fighter plane discovered in the Sahara.
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| 05/10/12
| Paul Harris
Posted on 05/12/2012 1:01:58 PM PDT by Doogle
He was hundreds of miles from civilisation, lost in the burning heat of the desert.
Second World War Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping took what little he could from the RAF Kittyhawk he had just crash-landed, then wandered into the emptiness.
From that day in June 1942 the mystery of what happened to the dentist’s son from Southend was lost, in every sense, in the sands of time.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: kittyhawk; mystery; p40; unitedkingdom; worldwareleven; worldwarii; wwii
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:02:07 PM PDT
by
Doogle
To: Chode
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:02:47 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Doogle
I saw an earlier thread on this.
Lend lease P-40 Warhawk I believe.
3
posted on
05/12/2012 1:03:47 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(Liberals need not reply.)
To: Doogle
4
posted on
05/12/2012 1:04:04 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Eye of Unk
5
posted on
05/12/2012 1:04:44 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Doogle
They found a bunch of in-crate Spitfires in Burma. Those might even be airworthy.
This is still cool, or as cool as you can be in the desert.
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:07:11 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Eye of Unk
Didn’t the brit’s primarily use the Kittyhawk via lend/lease?
7
posted on
05/12/2012 1:08:24 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Doogle
8
posted on
05/12/2012 1:08:32 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
To: GeronL
Yeah, I remember that story.....is this from the same one?
9
posted on
05/12/2012 1:09:20 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Crawdad
10
posted on
05/12/2012 1:10:26 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Doogle
11
posted on
05/12/2012 1:12:06 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Doogle
12
posted on
05/12/2012 1:12:51 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(He who commands, must obey.)
To: Eye of Unk
13
posted on
05/12/2012 1:14:20 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: EGPWS
Didn’t the brit’s primarily use the Kittyhawk via lend/lease?Yeah... they probably lost their deposit on this one, though.
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:16:15 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: GeronL
LOL...forget I asked that question, I just woke up from my nap *grins*
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:17:28 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: GeronL
I hope all the Spitfires become fully operational and even this Warhawk is also restored, better yet they find the pilots remains.
I bought a high end Whites metal detector two months ago, the goal was to find small gold nuggets in Alaska, but you never know what with easy to get satellite pics on your smartphones now.
Its a shame it came down on such a rotten rock layer, otherwise the engine would still be intact.
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:26:30 PM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
(Liberals need not reply.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: Eye of Unk
Apparently th Spitfires were in packing creates, meaning they were oiled and stuff. There was probably very little decay/rusting.
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:37:09 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Doogle
lol.
Burma - Asia- Jungle
very far away.
you don’t have to be em-bear-essed
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:39:35 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: Doogle
If lend lease, it’s American property.
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posted on
05/12/2012 1:41:40 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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