More Buried Aircraft Stories

Enough.

Discussion on the American buried hoard seems to have given way to a rehash of the fabled Burma project.

Clunk.

Moggy
Moderator

Nice analysis. Malcolm.. one pedantic point though.. finding something that proves one correct is only inevitable if the surface of the planet is infinite. As inevitable as finding a bunker full of monkeys typing Hamlet..

MM.

Watch the Archaeo/Geophysics RAF Museum June 2013 presentation on YouTube in full. Read the full Archaeo/Geophysics report of March 2015 in full.

Note the substantial variance in the facts between the two….and explain.

MEANS, MOTIVE and OPPORTUNITY. 😉

The really good thing about buried aircraft is that regardless of where you dig the first hole you will by gradually expanding the hole eventually find them and be proven correct. This is because of the inescapable truth that the surface of the planet is a finite space so that result is inevitable.

But it would be nice however if the diggers didn’t have to rely solely on this rather hit or miss approach and instead were able to produce the buried object(s) where they claimed they were in the first place. After all that is where they argue stridently that their “research” says these objects are – not somewhere else. Because if they were somewhere else then the “research” should have told them that at the beginning.

Accordingly finding an object where your research has said it will be is guaranteed to be accepted as showing good research and proper investigatory method than the haphazard approach of just enlarging the parameters of the search until the inevitable happens. That’s probably the reason that the hunt for buried objects tend to arouse the sceptic in most thinking people.

It is akin to finding a cure for the common cold when you went into the supermarket to look for a can of baked beans. 😀

Because there is little enough intelligent discussion on this forum as it is, and you might want to rise above the petty personal attacks (veiled or otherwise) that characterised the Burma thread? (snigger snigger etc etc)

I don’t see any petty personal attacks on this thread. All I see is a bit of light hearted ribbing. You know, the stuff that puts a smile on your face and helps the day along.

Cees,

Still away to run on this.

From the evidence I have seen I think we can be pretty sure this is a Seafire II wing.

There were a number of carrier training accidents in this region.

Mark

To stay on topic:
Any news on the recent UK Spitfire recovery (wing, spinner). Was it the Orkney? It was reported in our favourite mag that work was ongoing and
presumably the location of the fuselage had been located? Please a sensitive answer, otherwise I shouldn’t have bothered.:very_drunk:
Any news on that?
Cees

I think you are getting confused Mk12.

That April comment was completely different; some story about a railway line, heavy military equipment being dropped in trenches, no trace of paperwork ever being found and buried fighters in packing cases. Nothing like Hurston’s story at all. :angel:

Moggy

The criteria are:- MEANS, MOTIVE & OPPORTUNITY. 😉

Grow up? That doesn’t sound like much fun to me. Why on earth would you want to do that?

Because there is little enough intelligent discussion on this forum as it is, and you might want to rise above the petty personal attacks (veiled or otherwise) that characterised the Burma thread? (snigger snigger etc etc)

Based upon comments above, it seems that certain parties are itchin’ to “discuss” a certain Far East subject. So am I, at times.

But the thread was pulled for good, apparently, because the forum’s management fraidy cats were (are) weeing themselves over fear of legal action. That’s the unsubstantiated scuttlebutt, of course.

Moggy, you’d love to be so much more than a Moderator on that subject. But, except for veiled references here and there, your wings are clipped. And so are mine … and Mark12’s … and Bruce’s … and Andy S’s … etc., etc.

Ding, dong the thread is dead.
Which old thread?
Burma Spitfires thread.
Ding, dong the wicked thread is dead!

Well, there is a story that one of the Canada war prize Me262’s are buried possibly under the tarmac at an old WWII airport in Toronto (Downsview airport). It is definitely known to have sat there, and then disappeared with one airport personel having claimed it as being buried (so he was told, but no direct confirmed witnesses).

Don’t you guys ever grow up?

Grow up? That doesn’t sound like much fun to me. Why on earth would you want to do that?

Don’t you guys ever grow up?

I was only quoting from the classics. Mr. Saunders is NOT the messiah.. etc.

Come on, lighten up 🙂

Don’t you guys ever grow up?

Come on, folks. Everyone knows that if you can’t export a fighter you dig a big hole and bury it. What else would you do?

And yes, Andy. You’re a very naughty boy.

I suppose it depends if they are in packing cases that are termite proof…..?
mmitch.

While we are on hidden things,any idea what is the latest on the German gold train?

I think you are getting confused Mk12.

That April comment was completely different; some story about a railway line, heavy military equipment being dropped in trenches, no trace of paperwork ever being found and buried fighters in packing cases. Nothing like Hurston’s story at all. :angel:

Moggy

“…the story had been forensically examined and was deeply impressive. I knew that the whole story was a load of myth and baloney…”

7 April 2015 – “I shall sit quietly and scan this thread for moderation only”

Have fun. I’m now taking cover…

Odd you posted this just as I took a break 😡

Mind you, at least this is a fresh angle:-

A railroad line had been laid and large amount of heavy military equipment had been off-loaded and deposited in the trenches. The excavated soil had then been replaced, leaving three berms (small hills) as the only evidence of what had happened. No documents have been traced that could shed any light on the matter, but Hurston believes that WWII military vehicles including P-40 fighter planes were buried in packing cases.

Not heard anything similar to that tale before.

Moggy