WWII buried spitfires found!!

Check this out brand new still in the transport cases spitfires just found

British Farmer to Unearth World War II Spitfires in Burma | NewsFeed | TIME.com

I been following this for a few weeks now! Pretty awesome!
To bad they are fighting over ownership now

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I been following this for a few weeks now!

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Oh sure, you couldn't tell us about it :D



That's cool, hope more info is given out about this

The sound of a big watercooled V12 is as sweet as it gets, what a great find!

just google it. theres a bunch about it out. the whole history of why they were buried, when etc. pretty cool!

I wasnt keeping it from everyone, just you Coils :)

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:D

I did do a quick search, most of what I found was basically the same as the link above

Might be a good reason to visit Burma next time I'm in that neck of the woods--this Dec. :-)

If they sell? The bidding on those will start well over a million bucks each.
Do not tell Bluejack about them. :)

Damn, I can't wait to see them one they're uncrated!!!

when I saw this it reminded me that our gov't did the same thing
sometimes TCM on cable has old mvietone news breifs between movies. about 10 years ago they had one where the US air force was up-dating to jets circa 1946-50 and had to get rid of the surplus planes. so they dug a big hole and buried them to build a new runway for a major air force base, years later I asked a friend of mine who was a gov't testing enginner, what he thought of the idea of the planes beening somewhat intact. his first question/answer was impact by ground water & the pressue of the runway would overtime would collapse these P-51 mustangs into balls of aluminum
yes I know the airforce base they are buried at and if they did there, they probably did it everywhere

great story thanks for posting it

sprat