...in Burma.
Quite a haul - at least 36, possibly up to 60!
Dozens of buried Spitfires found...
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, Nov 28 2012 05:06 PM
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 05:06 PM
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 05:42 PM
i think 60 odd years buried in a jungle will have rotted most of them away.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 06:28 PM
i think 60 odd years buried in a jungle will have rotted most of them away.
They think they're in crates.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 06:42 PM
They think they're in crates.
When I read about this a few weeks ago it said they were believed to be packed in crates that were then coated in tar. So if the stories are true a large % should be ok.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 07:41 PM
They've been known about for a while, they are in bits I think and need assembling.
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:56 PM
Anyone ever see Battlefield Earth? Think we should leave them buried just in case..... 
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 10:02 PM
Anyone ever see Battlefield Earth?
Very few did. Those that did should be ashamed of themselves.
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 10:05 AM
Very few did. Those that did should be ashamed of themselves.
I was ordered to go and see it.....
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Posted 29 November 2012 - 12:53 PM
Anyone ever see Battlefield Earth? Think we should leave them buried just in case.....
This is on my list of worst ever films. It might even be top.
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 08:09 AM
BBC are reporting that the guy who claims to have found these may be ... mistaken.
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 10:13 AM
BBC are reporting that the guy who claims to have found these may be ... mistaken.
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I hope they find them, and get a load of them airworthy - what a flypast that would make!
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 10:16 AM
Will they have to buy glue and an inestimable number of little pots of paint?They've been known about for a while, they are in bits I think and need assembling.
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 10:34 AM
good 'unWill they have to buy glue and an inestimable number of little pots of paint?
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 11:25 AM
Will they have to buy glue and an inestimable number of little pots of paint?
Disposing of the sprue will be a problem, that's for sure.
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 18 January 2013 - 11:31 AM
Disposing of the sprue will be a problem, that's for sure.
once my airfix planes had started to lose bits-guns first, then propellor blades and tailwheel etc , I used to wait until my mam had gone to the shop and put the plane on the fire in a bit that wasn't lit and squirt it with her hairspray: KABOOM. beat CGI outa site.
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