History Buried Treasure? WWII Spitfires o/t

It ain't hot rods so feel free to delete, I get it. That said, this is cool as hell!
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012...a-squadron-lost-wwii-spitfires-to-be-exhumed/

 

Very cool. Lets hope they are in o/k condition

 

Holy shit!!!! This has to be the barn find of the century!!

 

I hope they can be restored, I do know they are skinned with plywood. Bob

 

Isn't the Spitfire an all metal monocoque ?

 

I hope they're in better shape than that damn Plymouth they buried!

 

Yes no plywood on those. Mosquito is the plywood plane

 

I think I got confused with the Mosquito, that was mostly wood construction.

 

I can just see it now, threads on "Buried Deuce 3-Windows, in Burbank"! Look forward to a happy ending for those Spitfires though.

 

i love old airplanes, and old cars,,, and old women too ,,,, sometimes,,

 

These stories pop up on a regular basis. I am a little cynical on this one, considering the political situation in burma (No I am not going to call it myamar) it wouldnt surprise me if it wasnt a way of siphoning money into the country

 

One of the most important and gorgous(spelling) planes ever built!

 

WOW, I cant wait to see how this comes out!!!

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...-and-thein-sein-mend-relations_n_1425395.html

 

I think its greeat and I would consider this a form of hot rodding ! would love to have one of those engines

 

Thats cool! would be even more impressed though if they dug up 20 Messerschmitt Bf 109's.............not enough axis aircraft around.

 

my grandfather flew Spitfires during WW2, he was a Kiwi who came over to join the RAF.
Spent some time in Malta & N.Africa flying Spits.

He came back over to the UK not long after I had learned to drive and helped me out a lot on my early cars. Back in NZ he had a '67 Challenger.

Apols for O/T but he was a hell of a bloke. I would love to see those planes brought back to life

 

The discovery of old stuff makes me very happy. Lets just hope the Brits can bring em back home.

 

wow just too cool i hope they can fix and fly every single one they find! and i dont think its off topic at all, they were and still are the hot rods of the sky!!!

 

Being a plane nut I wish the story was legit, but it just sounds phony to me. Why bury surplus equipment? Everywhere else they just bulldozed them into a pile and threw fuel and a match on them. I think it's a scam of some sort.

 

WW2 planes are making the news.. Heres one that has people on a few sites wondering if its the real deal or some good photo shop work.. Proportedly found by a Polish Oil field crew in North Africa...

 

well back in the day they just threw shit away! recycling was not a regular way of life, is it a made up story who know? but until they unearth them we are left to wonder.

 

hemiman is that a spitfire? maybe an african version? intake looks to be on top not the bottom you know to keep the sand and shit out? looks like a supermarine spit i could be wrong though?

 

VERY freaken COOL!!

 

What a crazy story, hope it is not just hype. Cool! ~sololobo~

 

Curtiss P-40.. and this youtube clip confirms its the real deal.. won't last long now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9LsK74J_W0

 

With old age comes experience....

 

When the American forces base in St Johns closed there was a huge hole dug in an area of the White Hills...which was part of the base...and a lot of surplus equipment, inc Jeeps, was put in the hole and bulldozed.
There is a different area just off the White Hills where a road was built to the cliff edge and a lot of heavier/larger stuff like trucks, wire bails etc was dumped into the ocean!

I've been told of a local wrecker driver contracted to bring vehicles to the dumping site losing his own truck over the cliff too when he backed the load right over the edge by mistake! Lucky to jump clear!!!

My FILaw worked at a scrapmetal job during the 60's and there was an independant crew of divers working the various wrecks and disposal sites for brass propellers and copper rolls etc and bring it all in for cash.
For a couple of years they made a lot of money...but I can only imagine the damage they did to the various wrecks etc offshore.
He told me once they came in with lengths of riveted brass angle, claiming it was removed from the keel of a submarine!
I find that a bit hard to believe due to the potential for torpedoes/explosives etc lying around, not to mention the unlikelyhood of brass being even used in a keel...but thats what he was told.
We do have at least two U-boats and a british sub offshore in supposedly divable depths. Who knows!?!?

Somewhere like Burma I can see locals being hired to perform the same disposal service using manual labour. It wouldn't be outrageous to have a hole dug and then reburied using shovels and wheelbarrows.

 

If and when it happens it would be sweet to have a film crew on site, like that documentary on retrieving Glacier Girl.

The "crates" should have better drainage than that concrete tomb time capsule.

 

great photo taff