Lifted from another forum, I give you this rumour which I am sure will receive comments. Even if not true, it should give you a smile!
At the end of WW2 37 complete Me 262’s were shipped to a location near present day Las Vegas in Nevada. They had been carefully dismantled in Germany and shipped in packing crates marked PROPERTY OF NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION. Busy with the development of the F86 NA had the crates buried just north of the present day McCarran Airport and the site forgotten. Recently it was determined that the crates are buried under the Luxor Hotel and Casino which was built in 1992. Using the latest side drill technology and exploritory hole was bored by a recovery tean lead by actor Nicholas Cage. A remote camera determined that the crates are there but surprisingly filled with ground water. Recovery attempts will continue and the jets will be sold by auction at a date and location to be determined.
By: Tillerman - 7th March 2013 at 21:49
More news will follow on April 1st, I think :rolleyes:
By: noggins - 7th March 2013 at 17:24
Take a look on the map – the Luxor is to the West of McCarren, very slightly WSW depending where you take it from. To the North North East is Nellis and Im pretty sure the USAF won’t like their taxiway being dug up either.
By: grounded - 7th March 2013 at 07:10
Wasn’t the issue that aircraft instruments were buried, under a lot of seawater? 😀
NO, It definitely mentioned aircraft.
By: D1566 - 7th March 2013 at 01:09
I have jusst been watching a parliment debate on the radiation pollution of Dalgety bay, it was mentioned that aircraft were buried nearby after the war,
Wasn’t the issue that aircraft instruments were buried, under a lot of seawater? 😀
By: grounded - 6th March 2013 at 21:27
I have jusst been watching a parliment debate on the radiation pollution of Dalgety bay, it was mentioned that aircraft were buried nearby after the war, sad to say, but it gave no further details, I find it dificult to forecast an end to this load of codswollop.:D:D:D
By: charliehunt - 6th March 2013 at 15:05
Never believe anything written by somebody to whom the humble apostrophe is a mystery.
Moggy
The best contribution to this thread so far!:D
By: Snoopy7422 - 6th March 2013 at 15:00
Gosh…….
If they put a camera down there – lets see the photos….:)
According to the normally-reliable IMDB, Nick Cage is still with us;-http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000115/bio
That ol’ rumour-mill keeps on a-churning…… Could almost be a song…!
Another week and we’ll be reading ‘Crated Spitfires Found by Elvis Under Vegas Strip-Club’….!
By: ZRX61 - 6th March 2013 at 04:38
I could believe it, did you see the Arado Blitz’s i Posted a link to in the buried Spitfire thread, you can see them on the riverbank where the soil has gone.
No, I barely read 2% of that thread.
By: DaveM2 - 6th March 2013 at 02:25
For a start – no where near 37 complete 262s were shipped to the US. Plenty of documentation on those that were, even if a couple ‘disappeared’ from public displays in the late forties.
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 6th March 2013 at 00:10
YAWN. Oh, hello, have I missed anything? I fell asleep while the Spitfires were being dug.
No, just more rumours?
Wake me up when something happens
(still not holding my breath)
By: TonyT - 5th March 2013 at 23:01
I could believe it, did you see the Arado Blitz’s i Posted a link to in the buried Spitfire thread, you can see them on the riverbank where the soil has gone.
By: Moggy C - 5th March 2013 at 22:48
At the end of WW2 37 complete Me 262’s were shipped to a location
Never believe anything written by somebody to whom the humble apostrophe is a mystery.
Moggy
By: TonyT - 5th March 2013 at 22:33
Post Burma it looks as if Mr Cundall is going to be a busy bee. Possibly.
Still if he runs short of funds he can always run upstairs and put a 262 on 21 black.
Sounds like the script for Paint Your Wagon, scuttling around under casinos looking for gold.
By: Stepwilk - 5th March 2013 at 20:25
Ah, that’ll do it. Try, try again.
By: Mark12 - 5th March 2013 at 20:15
One news source–don’t know how reliable–is saying Cage was just killed this morning in a jet-ski accident in the Turks & Caicos.
I see he died on both the 17th of January and the 5th of March.
Mark
By: Stepwilk - 5th March 2013 at 20:01
One news source–don’t know how reliable–is saying Cage was just killed this morning in a jet-ski accident in the Turks & Caicos.
By: Bruce - 5th March 2013 at 19:44
Lots of low grade steel in Me262. Particularly the engines,nose and wing spars.
Just sayin….
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th March 2013 at 18:57
Post Burma it looks as if Mr Cundall is going to be a busy bee. Possibly.
By: ZRX61 - 5th March 2013 at 18:45
Considering how deep the foundations of the Luxor go down, they must have buried them about 100ft below grade… He really needs to come up with a better plot for National Treaure III
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