Personally I find that fact that a Spitfire crash-lands on a cricket pitch, hits the stumps, and ends up with dents in its wing far easier to believe than any other explanation, all of which seem to involve a highly unlikely amount of unwitnessed effort on the part of persons unknown to create a story that goes unnoticed for half a century before it takes off online. I’m pretty sure you can see them in the photo linked on the first page, they’re just further down the wing than you might think.
Anyway, it’s an easy conundrum to solve – all we need to do is have a word with someone at Duxford who can be persuaded to belly land their Spitfire into a set of stumps, and see what the wing looks like afterwards. Simples! No obvious flaws in that plan.
Incidentally, I may not agree with you, John Green, but I couldn’t fault your riposte.
Adrian
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