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Hear hear. On both points.

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Zac in NZ
#avgeek, modelbuilder, photographer, writer. Callsign: "HANDBAG".
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"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
"The more time you spend around warbirds the sooner you learn nothing, is simple." - JohnB, 24/02/22

Quick BBC report with Vid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20925300

6 January 2013 Last updated at 14:50 GMT Help A team of experts has flown to Burma for the final stage of a 17-year search to locate a hoard of Spitfire planes.
The group of 21 hope to unearth dozens of missing British Spitfires believed to have been buried in the Burmese jungle at the end of World War II.
They are expected to to begin digging at Yangon International Airport.
There could be up to 36 buried planes at the end of the airport's runway in Mingaladon and up to 124 aircraft in total, it is thought.

Janey Mitchell reports.

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Regards,
R.J.Mitchell

We are waiting with baited breath!

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

124. 124. Can I get 150? 124 to you, Sir.

Seemingly related, and found thanks to Tangmere1940 over at the Key/Flypast forums: http://issuu.com/ianhewitt/docs/spitfir ... geNumber=4

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Zac in NZ
#avgeek, modelbuilder, photographer, writer. Callsign: "HANDBAG".
https://linktr.ee/zacyates

"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
"The more time you spend around warbirds the sooner you learn nothing, is simple." - JohnB, 24/02/22

I will settle for just one

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Flying Piper L4-J 45-55209

Hot off the Bagcockpost..

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews ... re-hunters

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... plane.html

Stories from @WarbirdNews via twitter today.

From the Bangkok Post story,



Is it just me, or is the fact that the presumably uppermost crate is filled with muddy water not really very encouraging?

August

140 and counting.

Waiting for one hundred and EIGHTY!

Agree, but then again, look what has come out of Lake Michigan.

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Taylor Stevenson

And no zebra mussels!

The fact that at least one of the crates isn't crushed flat is encouraging.

True.

And Taylor makes a fair point about Lake Mich, although I'm thinking this sounds more like Tulsa.

August

I will admit that, if all the crates are flooded, the condition of the birds out of Lake Michigan will probably be the best case scenario. In my opinion, the neatest part about a complete airframe in the crate (regardless of serviceability) is that it will be an invaluable "blueprint" for future restorations. Plus, during WWII my Sentinel I project was based, at one time, at all three of the air bases mentioned. Hopefully they stumble upon a crate with Sentinel I KJ403 in it (the British Brodie System test bird).

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Taylor Stevenson

I think we are all aware of all the aircraft pulled from watery graves here and there. It is not the water that gets them, it is the salt and oxygen. IF it was immersed the entire time then it will be a matter of corrosion control once they are exposed to air.

Shouldn't be hard to identify the magnesium rivets at least!