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Up to 60 Spitfire fighters found buried in Asia

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Up to 60 Spitfire fighters found buried in Asia

#1 PostAuthor: gordon62 » Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:15 pm


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#2 PostAuthor: Nosher903 » Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:01 pm

I heard the guy talking on the radio yesterday saying they'd found 36.

MkXIVs apparently. He said there was going to be an announcement made from The Imperial War Museum about it today.
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#3 PostAuthor: PAULJAC47 » Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:40 pm

Bugger thats the value of these now that will plummet!!!!
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#4 PostAuthor: Charlie » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:04 pm

HAVE they found them though ?

On the news last night, all the site scan was showing was a large metal presence somewhere below ground....they had not been able to determine if it definately was any sort of plane, let alone Spitfires ....
Why do I persist in debating with idiots ? I really should know better :)

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#5 PostAuthor: malmojoe » Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:24 pm

well I'm not taking any chances, I'm putting mine on Ebay tonight.

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#6 PostAuthor: Pigford » Fri Nov 30, 2012 6:26 pm

malmojoe wrote:well I'm not taking any chances, I'm putting mine on Ebay tonight.




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#7 PostAuthor: Peter K. » Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:05 pm

Great !! I hope they bring them up in the air some times.

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#8 PostAuthor: ADRIAN H » Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:26 pm

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#9 PostAuthor: Steve Cooke » Fri Dec 07, 2012 12:52 am

Let's hope so, there are far too few of our iconic aircraft such as the Spitfire and the Lancaster left, it amazes me how we allowed that to happen.
My fingers are crossed.

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#10 PostAuthor: jonhunt » Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:08 pm

Post WW2 there were a number of historic ships in Portsmouth harbour that dated back to the Napoleonic era. the Navy towed them out to sea & used them for target practice
All thats left is HMS Trincomalee (1817) in Hartlepool & HMS Gannet in Chatham

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#11 PostAuthor: Pigford » Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:26 pm

lets hope this isn't just some big wind-up :|
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#12 PostAuthor: ollie » Sat Dec 15, 2012 4:50 pm

my uncle used to work on spits and hurricanes during the war ,im sure he has been following the latest news :)
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#13 PostAuthor: Charlie » Sun Dec 16, 2012 11:09 am

Anything else develop on this - or was it just a slow news day ?
Why do I persist in debating with idiots ? I really should know better :)

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#14 PostAuthor: morten » Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:30 pm

What a tressure !!!!! :shock: I just love those planes.... Best ever made

unfortunately the nearest I come one of this planes is what you see at the pictures :cry: every summer there is a show at the strip next to where I live and this old fighters are showing off, but they are cool guys and let me take pictures of my bikes together with them :oops:

Nice Kwak picture anyway of my Z100R2 :roll:

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#15 PostAuthor: Z1B » Sun Dec 16, 2012 10:51 pm

My uncle Angus who lived in Norfolk crash landed one back on british soil saw a picture of him sitting on top of it when I was a young chap
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