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20 new Spitfire Mk11s in boxes
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Phil Allison
Apr 14, 2012, 8:37:52 AM4/14/12
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** This one is almost too good to be true.
" Twenty iconic Spitfire aircraft buried in Burma during the Second World
War are to be repatriated to Britain after an intervention by David Cameron.
"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9203822/Spitfires-buried-in-Burma-during-war-to-be-returned-to-UK.html
Sure hope we don't see any turn up on eBay .....
... Phil
Phil Allison
Apr 14, 2012, 9:01:15 AM4/14/12
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** Heading now correct.
... Phil
Nick O'Tyme at
Apr 14, 2012, 9:00:22 AM4/14/12
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"Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
news:9ut9d6...@mid.individual.net...
Other stories put them as Mk14's in the early 50's.
I'll believe it when they show them.
news:9ut9d6...@mid.individual.net...
I'll believe it when they show them.
D Walford
Apr 14, 2012, 10:25:07 AM4/14/12
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military equipment such as trucks and motorcycles being dug up many
years after the war still in excellent condition its possible they are
still "as good as new".
Daryl
Phil Allison
Apr 15, 2012, 3:53:14 AM4/15/12
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"Phil Allison"
> ** Heading now correct.
** Update - seems the machines are indeed Mk XIVs.
2050hp Griffon engine, 5 blade prop, teardrop canopy, 2 x cannons & 4 x
0.303s
Used to catch and kill over 300 V1 flying bombs.
Not really a classic Spitfire, but a whole new machine.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/burma/9204921/British-farmers-quest-to-find-lost-Spitfires-in-Burma.html
http://www.lesmala.net/jean-michel/avions/dux21.jpg
..... Phil
Tudor5
Apr 15, 2012, 10:07:40 PM4/15/12
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On Apr 14, 10:25 pm, D Walford <dwalf...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> On 14/04/2012 11:00 PM, Nick O'Tyme wrote:
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> > "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
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> >> ** This one is almost too good to be true.
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> >> " Twenty iconic Spitfire aircraft buried in Burma during the Second
> >> World War are to be repatriated to Britain after an intervention by
> >> David Cameron. "
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> >>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9203822/Spitfires-buri...
> On 14/04/2012 11:00 PM, Nick O'Tyme wrote:
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> > "Phil Allison" <phi...@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
> >news:9ut9d6...@mid.individual.net...
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> >> ** This one is almost too good to be true.
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> >> " Twenty iconic Spitfire aircraft buried in Burma during the Second
> >> World War are to be repatriated to Britain after an intervention by
> >> David Cameron. "
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> >> Sure hope we don't see any turn up on eBay .....
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> >> ... Phil
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> > Other stories put them as Mk14's in the early 50's.
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> > I'll believe it when they show them.
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> We will have to wait and see but after hearing many stories about
> military equipment such as trucks and motorcycles being dug up many
> years after the war still in excellent condition its possible they are
> still "as good as new".
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> Daryl
This may shed some light on it .
> >> Sure hope we don't see any turn up on eBay .....
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> >> ... Phil
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> > Other stories put them as Mk14's in the early 50's.
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> > I'll believe it when they show them.
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> We will have to wait and see but after hearing many stories about
> military equipment such as trucks and motorcycles being dug up many
> years after the war still in excellent condition its possible they are
> still "as good as new".
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> Daryl
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Lost_Spitfire_Squadron_206526-1.html
Tudor5
Apr 15, 2012, 10:17:22 PM4/15/12
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While sniffing out history of "Far East" Spitfires fell over this
Interesting snippets in here (for the oldies )
http://www.secondworldwar.org.uk/spitfire.html
Du Taquetdelaportétanche
Apr 29, 2012, 11:41:03 AM4/29/12
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Something new?
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