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Their were claims in EAA’s Sport Aviation about 15 or 20 years ago of up to 1000 P51’s burried on an Island and they needed other to concurr with the person claiming it. It never went any further...
Very cool !
Did I hear that there were only a couple Spits still operational in the UK ?
Argh! How come I couldn’t stumble on one of those!
Now we need to find 20 buried FW-190’s and we got a fight on our hands.
The Brits may need them now for their aircraft carrier.
I’d like to see our armed forces bury ALL US aircraft in undisclosed locations right NOW.
Sometime shortly after the undocumented foreign communist marxist usurper is kicked out of our house, we would go back and unearth them.
I’m thinking here of the destruction so far of our nuclear deterrent, anti-missile defense, etc.
In addition, it might be good to bury computers with our best TopSecret technology, just so that it could not be found quickly in case of any upcoming “fire sales”.
The shipping crates probably rotted away long ago, so I’m not sure what kind of shape they’ll be in when/if they find them.
(unless they filled the whole crate with cosmoline, in which case it will take 20 years to clean it all off)
And especially since Britain and America could truly use the inspiration of our greatest generation about now.
Cheers and congrats and nicely done to the good folks in Burma.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!
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Second ditching broke his back, that was the end of fighters for him.
He sure loved Spits though, except for that damned radiator hanging down.
This is AMAZING. 20 of them. That’ll bring the Spit back from the brink of extinction. I look forward to more information, like what Mk number they are.
I don’t see how MK II Spits, the main model in 1940 Battle of Britain, could have been in Burma at this late stage of the war.
Burma campaign usually got the low priority for new models, Hurricanes were still flying there in 1945 when they had been taken out of action in most other theaters.
Mk Vs or MK VIIIs, yes. But then again if they are MK II’s that would be quite amazing; they are quite rare, as are the Hawker Hurricane.
They should be a WHOLE lot less trouble getting in the air than Glacier Girl was.
http://p38assn.org/glacier-girl.htm
Wow! That is really neat.
Picture I took at the Lone Star Flight Museum Air Show 2005. Not sure if it's still part of their collection.