Mark V wrote:
k5083 wrote:
Right now there is no direct evidence that there is a single Spitfire underground in Myanmar, in any condition.
That depends on what you mean by 'evidence'. If, over a period of several years, you were to interview half a dozen independent veterans, all of whome told you basically the same story about what they saw in Burma in 1945, without any contact with each other. If some of them had recall to the extent they were able to point on a map where they buried Spitfires in boxes in 1945 and you, acting on those accounts travelled to that location with ground penetrating radar equipment. If that equipments survey results, after scanning the area in question, revealed a buried orderley row of metalic objects, around four feet or so in width and twenty feet or so long.... would you then consider that evidence?
I believe the answer the that question is yes - not PROOF, but certainly compelling evidence.
Actually it depends what I meant by "direct," which I used in the legalistic sense. The closest to direct evidence would be the metal scanning results. The rest is circumstantial evidence and hearsay, however corroborated. Not saying it isn't evidence or isn't true; we have seen such things be true sometimes before, but also very much exaggerated.
Obviously this is a situation where it is very understandable that detailed evidence as the protagaonists have is kept tightly under wraps. That leaves us interested outsiders unable to evaluate whether it is any good. WallyB has said it best thus far, "we all want it to be true, but are afraid it isn't," so many of us will remain agnostic until we see pics of things coming out of the ground.
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) that could simply be a paperwork delay.
