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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai  Posted: 07 Jan 2013, 10:43 |
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Username Protected wrote: Sounds like they are just now heading there to start digging: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/06 ... p=HPBucketKeep in mind that this is Burma (aka Myanmar). Likely not the easiest country to pop into and start digging around for buried treasure. Looks like the leader of the effort had to promise half of what they recover to the Burmese government. Latest article says he spent nearly 20 years negotiating with the government. Burmese government will get half the planes. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/06 ... latestnews
With which they can finally field an Air Force :P
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 08 Jan 2013, 08:46 |
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Reading and interpreting from the posted article, apparently, Mr. Cundall has already hit pay dirt. To quote: "The venture, backed with a million-dollar guarantee from a Belarusian videogame company". Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/06 ... z2HO4LWJFWLike any good "farmer", Mr. Cundall has planted his seed, and then watered and fertilized it carefully with lots of bull****. Jgreen
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 08 Jan 2013, 11:20 |
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"company spokesman Frazer Nash said........."
You suppose his deputy is named Austin Healey?
Recall all the hype about the Greenland P-38s and B-17s. How did that turn out?
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 08 Jan 2013, 21:07 |
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Username Protected wrote: Recall all the hype about the Greenland P-38s and B-17s. How did that turn out? they got one out, Glacier Girl.
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 08 Jan 2013, 23:32 |
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.........and spent three million dollars restoring a "brand new" plane.
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 09 Jan 2013, 19:13 |
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"The team has lowered a camera into the crate in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina, but says muddy water has stopped them identifying the contents." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20957162Sitting in muddy water for many years may add some difficulty to the restoration.
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 18 Jan 2013, 11:20 |
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Username Protected wrote: Well today the company bankrolling the digging project admitted they have found no spitfires, although the main digger says they are digging in the wrong spot! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21074699Sounds like a Jimmy Hoffa situation.
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 18 Jan 2013, 12:19 |
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Username Protected wrote: .........and spent three million dollars restoring a "brand new" plane. I can't think of many better ways to spend $3m.
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 21 Jan 2013, 09:07 |
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LATEST SHOCKER FROM AVWEB NEWS!!!!!!!!!!
"No Spitfires Found At First Dig Site In Burma
An internationally supported expedition to Burma to dig up Spitfires thought to be buried there after the close of WWII is quickly drawing skepticism as it has so far found none after one week digging at a primary site, Mingaladon airport. The project's mastermind, British farmer David Cundall, believes there's still hope. Cundall had found eyewitness support of his theory that the British military packed more than 120 Spitfires in crates and buried them in the ground before vacating Burma more than 60 years ago. His evidence drew the assistance of David Cameron and cooperation of the Burmese government in arranging permission for a dig. But after one week digging at Mingaladon airport (now Rangoon International Airport), and with one witness, a 91-year-old British veteran, in attendance, archeologists Wednesday suspended the search on lack of evidence. Counterclaims and alternate theories of explanation are beginning to surface, including one from another witness. Cundall expects to continue."
I've noticed that some "folks" will fall for anything. Next thing we'll see is pilots pouring "unproven" snake oil in their crankcases to ward off corrosion and wear.
P.T. Barnum is my hero.
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 17 Feb 2013, 22:50 |
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[Link]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21483187[/Link]
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Post subject: Re: Twenty Spitfires Found In Burma Still In Shipping Contai Posted: 18 Feb 2013, 09:29 |
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Username Protected wrote: [Link]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21483187[/Link] I'm shocked. Just shocked. How could something so wonderful not be true? What's next? Santa Claus? Easter Bunny? Obamacare?
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