Cache of WWII aircraft abandoned on island CLAIM

just wait until Castro shuffles off….then the floodgates will open, thing is there are an awful lot of Floridians with money and Cuba is just down the road…. 🙂

Cuba

[QUOTE=Stoatyboy]Off Topic,

There must be some interesting bits and bobs lurking around on Cuba somewhere.

There must be some aircraft still around (excluding the obvious ones that are on static display).[/QUOTE]
Stoatyboy,

Just raking through a few photographs I took in November 1998.

I assume by the obvious ones you are referring to the downtown Havana display, the great A/F museum in the suburbs and the exhibition down at the ‘Bay of Pigs’.

Here are couple of mundane Jets captured in my travels. I am not 100% on the types, but what I think is a Mig15/17 UTI ’26’ was in a garden at Santiago de Cuba and ‘215’ was on a base on the road to Camaguey. The guards here got a bit agitated and we beat a hasty retreat.

Spencer Flack once showed me some shots of some pretty rough Seafurys in Cuba in addition to the well known pair. I have wondered if they were ever recovered. Certainly our US cousins would have had problems there.

Mark

Anyone knows more about these guys, trying to recover a bunch of WWII Japanese fighters from a cave somewhere on a pacific island?

http://www.skw-58.de/Zeroengl.html

My emails never got any replies.

If more Spitfires become available on the open market, won’t that effect the residual value ???

I can infer from that:

There are ‘feet on the ground’ at the moment with ground penetrating radar and/or a long pole!

Paul

I couldn’t possibly say. 😉

Mark

I can infer from that:

There are ‘feet on the ground’ at the moment with ground penetrating radar and/or a long pole!

Paul

:-l

Not sealed lips, just 50/50

Mark

As we speak………

As we speak…. Mark12 leaves us all wondering are we awaiting the biggest news on the warbird scene of the new century…. 🙂

or the biggest let down 🙁

Did anything ever come of the report a couple of years ago of 12 Spitfires burried in their crates beneath an airport in Burma?

Rob

As we speak………

Off Topic,

There must be some interesting bits and bobs lurking around on Cuba somewhere. I remember the boom days for classic sportscars in the 1980’s when every magazine seemed to have pictures of Jaguar D Types and other realy classy cars being pulled out of old garages in Havanna.

There must be some aircraft still around (excluding the obvious ones that are on static display).

Actually waking up half an hour early this morning got me thinking about this..

There was an advert, in was about somewhere in the Pacific (no not the Burma Spitfires 🙂 – Other than that I can’t remember anymore

Anyone ever read the book ‘Flying to Pieces’ by Derek Ing? Basically about an old guy who knows of a stash of old warbirds on a south pacific island and he enlists friends and investors to go and get them…

Mark

It was about dumped Barracudas that had been pushed over the side from a british aircraft carrier. The project was serious in planning but I haven’t heard through 57Resue sources about it anymore than you. I think Karl is busy at the moment to find LW170 (and rightly so).

How about digging up the Barracuda bits that was posted sometime ago on this forum. Closer to home and less wet.

Cees

I do not remember that bit

Prehaps it was another story!!!……………….

About aircraft on an island… there is no shortage of rumours!

Paul

But why did he want money for the information?

Sorry

Barracuda!!

http://www.navynews.co.uk/oty/otyatoc.asp

Search for Barracuda Aircraft and look up the names!

Paul

It was Bermuda

It was some rare naval type: Fulmar, Skua or something

It was the guy behind the Nanton Halifax recovery, so he had history

I think HP57 knows more!

Paul