20 Spitfires found buried in Burma

I'll bet they are engine parts....For what I don't know...Probably something that needs an engine part....Right...book starts...

10-1 Engine parts
5-1 Curtis American model of anything
50-1 Spitfires
100-1 Harriers
3000-1 Iraqi Fulcrums
3500-1 Bar.
I'll be in the bar.

 

I remember being in the South Pacific (New Guinea). There they just shoved everything into the water, saved digging a hole.

KTK

 

Another article, t's looking more legit.

KTK

http://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2012...urn-to-the-uk/

 

Although one wonders which 'wrong hands' the RAF would have been so concerned about in 1945 that they would go to such lengths to carefully bury current Spitfires....

 

Does the RAF not have a list of aircraft losses and disposals somewhere.....They do today and in recent past...Surely they did then..they must have had serial numbers if belonged to RAF.

 

Not to mention that 20 brad new Spits could have easily been sold for a soft price to an new ally or even been given. Why waste those?

 

Oh dear...
It’s Spitfires at dawn in Burma - Telegraph

 

Who'd have thought it ? I wonder if David Cameron will mediate........

( or has he forgotten all about them already... )

 

I wonder if they'll ever get back to England now. Maybe they'll be sold with even more profit one by one

 

So - what's going on, then ? Six weeks on since the story broke, someone must surely have dug something up by now......?

 

Apparantly they are Greek and are being sold to Germans as part of the EU deal....German Spitfires...how novel....

 

Doesn't seem to be any news on this front.

 

Here we go again; still not holding my breath.
"A lost squadron of Spitfires that has been buried in Burma since the end of the Second World War will be excavated by a British aircraft enthusiast.
David Cundall, 62, has signed an historic agreement with the government in Rangoon to dig up the iconic fighter jets and ship them back to the UK.
The farmer discovered the locations of the warplanes after devoting 15 years and £130,000 of his own money to the painstaking search.

The Spitfires were buried in transport crates 40ft below ground in the final days of the war to ensure they never fell into enemy hands. There could be as many 60 aircraft at the secret location.

The planes are believed to be in good condition because they would have been waxed, wrapped in greased paper and their joints tarred by RAF crews stationed in Burma.
The deal went ahead after Prime Minister David Cameron signed a heritage agreement with Burmese President Thein Sein during his visit to the south-east Asian nation in April.
The excavation agreement was signed on Tuesday by Mr Cundall, Burma's civil aviation chief Tin Naing Tun and the Shwe Taung Paw company boss Htoo Htoo Zaw, Mr Cundall's partner in the country."
Dozens of spitfires buried by the British in Burma during WWII will be excavated following 16 year hunt by aviation enthusiast | Mail Online

"Burma has signed a deal with a British aviation enthusiast to allow the excavation of dozens of vintage Spitfire fighter planes that have been buried since the second World War.
The British embassy said the agreement was reached after discussions between Burmese president Thein Sein and British prime minister David Cameron during his visit to Burma earlier this year.
Aviation enthusiast David Cundall discovered the locations of the aircraft after years of searching. The Spitfires are believed to be in good condition, since they were reportedly packed in crates and hidden by British forces to keep them out of the hands of invading Japanese. Excavations are due to begin by the end of the month.
Htoo Htoo, managing director of Mr Cundall’s Burma partner company, said: “It took 16 years for Mr Cundall to locate the planes buried in crates. We estimate that there are at least 60 Spitfires buried and they are in good condition."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1017/breaking41.html?

 

Yaaaaaaawn.......the UK warbird enthusiast community is eagerly awaiting any news at all of these Spitfires......

 

Well, the number keeps going up....just dig em up!

As many as 140 World War II Spitfire fighter planes – three to four times the number of airworthy models known to exist – are believed to be buried in near-pristine condition in Myanmar. A British-Myanmar partnership says it will begin digging them up by the end of the month. The go-ahead for excavation came earlier this week when the Myanmar government signed an agreement with British aviation enthusiast David J. Cundall and his local partner. Cundall, a farmer and businessman, earlier this year announced he had located 20 of the planes, best known for helping the Royal Air Force win mastery of the skies during the Battle of Britain.

Spitfire WWII Fighter Planes In Myanmar Excavation Could Flood Vintage Plane Market

 

Most things are in pristine condition - when they're buried......

 

140? It sounds like someone wants more investors.

When they dig up one, I'll believe it. I find it very hard to believe that 140 "pristine" Spitfires were buried in Burma (did they even have 140 Spitfires operational at one time in Burma?)

 

Here's the latest..................

Spitfires in Burma - YouTube

 

So when are we actually going to see these Roswell aircrafts? Just one will be good enough. The Hollywood type trailer is there already....