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Toronto Electric Model Aviation Club (TEMAC) => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wingnutz on October 19, 2012, 07:10:51 AM

Title: Myanmar Spitfires...140?
Post by: Wingnutz on October 19, 2012, 07:10:51 AM
For those of you who haven't already heard about the aircraft above, here's a link to a newspaper article from yesterday.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/Trove+pristine+Spitfires+believed+buried+Myanmar/7413201/story.html (http://www.theprovince.com/news/Trove+pristine+Spitfires+believed+buried+Myanmar/7413201/story.html)

Enjoy,
Bill
Title: Re: Myanmar Spitfires...140?
Post by: Gregor77 on October 19, 2012, 09:05:57 AM
I heard that the farmer had some issues with his US partner in some other articles.  Let's hope that this doesn't go "Barrette Jackson" on them and the goverment wants 2 million a plane.   All these 140 planes were buried for a very long time... Wood and Alloy don't do well in water.   They might get lucky and at least have some parts and enough pieces to build a few airworthy units.  Now if someone could find a stash of ME262 or BF109's.. lol!  Even an HS123 would be cool as there are no known to exist.