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Buried Spitfires
This morning Radio 4 reported that permission granted to dig for the Spitfires in Burma. Anyone know any more on this???
You should have been listening to Chris Evans on R2 this morning, the programme was pretty much dedicated to this! Had the son of the chap digging them up on the phone - he is out there now - 14 x MkXIV, all crated, hopefully protected from corrosion and buried.
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What is that going to do to the price of Spitfires?
AIUI, the whole rebuilding / building from scratch business became viable only when the market price rose beyond a certain figure - of the order of £1M.
More importantly, what will it do to a certain woman's superiority complex.....
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Well I am pretty sure it will not bring it down to a level I could manage, but often these are bought by people who cannot fly them themselves, what it does mean is they will need more pilots who can fly for them, with my experience there is (ok, still outside, but who knows) a chance I could do this!  Real pilots fly anything they can get their hands on!
Peter if that really was your first significant thought about this story (and I see no smileys in your post) then I feel very sorry for you.
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A lot more restoration projects, any news on the state of corrosion? I hope they put up a blog or Facebook page on this, it will be fascinating to follow the dig.
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According to the Times they were inhibited properly and wrapped in Tar Paper so the chances are that they may be in pretty good nick
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14 Griffon engined spitfires with no combat history in period, that have been buried beneath the water-table of a tropical country, will require total restoration before flight (assuming that they are worth restoring and I sincerely doubt that) and will then have a pretty depressed value.
http://static.rcgroups.net/forums/attac ... crate2.jpg I keep hearing that they were wonderfully well inhibited before their burial but, even if that was the case and they are in precisely the same condition that they were when buried, they will require a nut and bolt strip and rebuild, not least because of their aluminium airframe construction using magnesium rivets.
Thanks for the comments, I missed the Chris Evans Show, (will try Iplayer later to catch up). It was more the time scale in digging these Spits up. Have they set any time scale on it? Are they making any filmed documentary on the process etc. I find the whole scenario fascinating.
I have heard tale that the same/similar thing happened over here when the USAAF was packing up and leaving for home at the end of WW2, how true are these rumors?
Nope, sorry, you'll have to help me with that. Your flying quals are admirable, I'm sure, and the EuroGA website is great. What am I missing?
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Number of spitfires seems to be anything from 14 to 60.
Guess we"ll have to wait and see--60 would be "amazing" Who is onlineUsers browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], Google [Bot] and 8 guests |
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