Here we go again…Depends on where they dig..I have personally done a few digs on the Oakey site.The dirt is red clay with bedrock about two feet down.What we have found are the steel or stainless bits of Spitfires that came out of the smelters.These were raked into pits beside the two Bellman Hangar sites that are near the Museum.There was a set of pits up closer to the main fence and public road and the “good” stuff was taken out in the 70,s.The rumours are an aircraft was buried by hand (in red clay with bedrock two feet down) in the vicinity.Be it Spitfire/Seafire/Kittyhawk or Mustang or maybe an aircraft trailer is yet to be proven.
And no have not had the pleasure of meeting the Broken wings crew.Hmmm “some type of secret Spitfire”?Might be a Seafire:) F82 Twin Mustangs?Interesting.
Actually the original set of 3500 came from here… http://warbirdsrestoration.com/spitfire-technical-drawings/
Hendon is the original source but as they are unarchived a shovel will come in handy,or a looong amount of time trawling through them.
Blast beat me too it Mackerel….
Because it is the other side of the world to go looking ourselves we decided to fill in the missing pieces with 3D designing off the GA drawings for parts.
Didn,t think you could use the plastic seats in flyers anymore unless you moved the side mounting points.
Spitfire seat for a couple hundred pounds!!Bargain 🙂
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