Spitfires From Burma / Myanmar (or not?)

[Mark V]

Its not a new thing - its just more creative journalism!

[paulmcmillan]

If it were Hurricanes, I'd be excited, but MORE Spitfires! :diablo:

Don't get Hurricanes in Burma.. Only Cyclones..

[27vet]

We'll have to wait and see...

[Dr Strangelove]

"Perfectly preserved" Spitfires...

Remember the new car that was buried in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1957 and everyone expected to be able to drive it once raised from its underground vault?
The reality was a bit different.

Oddly enough I do...all the way back in post #455

[aim1]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...-in-Burma.html

[Bob]

aim1, you're 65 posts late....

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showp...&postcount=420

[WB556]

Yawn, I do find all the in-fighting rather boring. Someone just let me know when they (or the big pile of corroded metal) are on a ship home.

[trumper]

Yawn, I do find all the in-fighting rather boring. Someone just let me know when they (or the big pile of corroded metal) are on a ship home.

Or the carrier bag full of data plates

[ericmunk]

Or the carrier bag full of data plates

Would that be an aircraft carrier bag then?

[Moggy C]

Oddly enough I do...all the way back in post #455

Or page 8, post #225 even?

Moggy

[Dr Strangelove]

Touché Cattermole,touché

[Dr. John Smith]

The Fox News link in post #475 quotes, in itself, extensively from the Vancouver Sun (at http://www.vancouversun.com/Brits+ba...261/story.html). What is of interest is that the Vancouver Sun report adds a new twist. Qouting Mr. Cundall:

""I had an AK-47 pointed at me once," says Cundall, who has endured mosquitoes and jungle heat in his search for the airplanes, many of which were buried around the old British airfields at Myitkyina and Mingaladon. "There were also six non-crated Mark VIIIs," says Cundall. "They are very rare and I believe they were buried in a quarry."

Hmmm...I wonder if these "six non-crated Mk.VIIIs" are the ex-607 (County of Durham) aircraft I speculated on earlier?

To briefly recap: 607 (County of Durham) Squadron, RAF, operated Spitfire Mk.VIIIs from March 1944, and disbanded on 19 August 1945 at Mingaladon, Burma. It is logical that they would have left their aircraft behind for the local MU to dispose of - especially if any were damaged and/or unserviceable - and maybe they were just pushed into a local quarry?

Mr. Cundall is specifically talking about Mk.VIIIs: the "buried and crated" Spitfires are said to be Mk.XIVs. 607 Squadron did not fly Spitfire Mk.XIVs until they reformed on 10 May 1946 at RAF Ouston, Northumberland (a long way from Burma...!)

[J Boyle]

Or page 8, post #225 even?

Moggy

The truth (or in this case a tongue-in-cheek reality check) can never be repeated too often....

[Oxcart]

Would that be an aircraft carrier bag then?

Thanks, thought this was very funny!

[Mark V]

Strikes me this thread is simply going around in circles....

[ZRX61]

Strikes me this thread is simply going around in circles....

Lufberries surely?

[richest]

Another find...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ra-desert.html

[DazDaMan]

They're a couple of weeks late...

[|RLWP]

Strikes me this thread is simply going around in circles....

The trim must be out

Richard

[Tangmere1940]

Is this thread just going around in circles?

[minimans]

Is this thread just going around in circles?

No i think it's an ECHO.......... ECHO.......... ECHO..............

[richest]

Well, more info the the plane found in the desert.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nds-death.html

[Flat 12x2]

Well, more info the the plane found in the desert.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...nds-death.html

Errrrrrr... wrong thread ! this ones about Spitfires

[SimonR]

Errrrrrr... wrong thread ! this ones about Spitfires

Speaking of which - not sure if anyone's heard - they've found some in crates in Burma - apparently they're preserved in flying condition, which is great because it's only a month and a half until Legends!!!

[richest]

Errrrrrr... wrong thread ! this ones about Spitfires

OK

[Mark_pilkington]

.
This story has gone quiet and got overtaken by the P-40 in the desert story, however its also been a while since there has been any media updates?

Does this mean there is still no access to commence digging, or digging has yielded no real results?

Anyone in the "know" able to comment?

regards

Mark Pilkington

[Robbo]

In Burma it rains a lot from May/June through to October/November, unless all their monsoon quota has been diverted to fall on airshow days in Bedfordshire this year. It would probably make sense to wait until the ground was more suitable for excavation.

[Mark V]

As Robbo says - you cannot carry out any serious excavation there until it stops raining towards the end of the year.

[Sopwith]

They could put a raincoat and a pair of wellingtons on if it's raining,it's just not good enough,getting us all excited like that and then letting the trail go cold.You can never have enough Spitfires.

[Tangmere1940]

Its only gone quiet because the excavation team are undergoing extensive wet-weather dig-training back in the UK.