Quote: ‘Hundreds “or potentially thousands” of bombers, fighters and trainee aircraft are still scattered across Britain…’

What exactly are trainee aircraft?

The world is all going mad!

I’ll pass on a ride until they fix the fuel tank thing!

I thought they had been upgraded to fix that at great expense, just before they decided to ground then?

smearing the dirt away from the cockpit canopy by now, peering at an immaculate green painted cockpit interior.
I wonder what the problem is?

Maybe the problem is that the canopy cover is still in place? 🙂

We’ll know they’ve found them when someone requests 120 Spitfire canopy covers on the “Cockpit canopy covers, anyone?” thread!

Invading Japanese?

Odd, the article states the planes were “hidden by British forces to keep them out of the hands of invading Japanese.”.

When exactly was this invasion, surely this was *BEFORE* the spits were buried!

Oh wait, maybe the Guardian don’t have a clue what they are talking about. Yes, that will be it. Unless there really was a Japanese invasion scare after the end of the war.

Steve

China also had some, so maybe there are some still there (along with the Stirlings). It is possible the Japanese could have captured one, although I don’t recall ever hearing of one.

Only if you live in New Zealand. If they ever do one over here, it’ll fly once then end up grounded like the RE.8, Albatros etc. Is the Vimy replica grounded now too? would be nice to see an O/400 and Vimy in the air together! Imagine those at Old Warden!