If I had a pound for every “complete buried aircraft on a dump” story….!
Or, how many airfield dump-sites I have investigated and excavated? The most exciting finds amongst all the clinker from boiler rooms (and once a smashed ip Slingsby glider in fragments) has usually been broken RAF crockery.
Yes, I know, I know….Kenley and the Spitfire was an exception. But……
If it were my time, and my money, I’d invest it elsewhere, frankly.
Andy! I’m quite surprised at your willingness to scoff this one away….perhaps Kenley was the beginning and proof that such prizes could be found….
These aeroplanes were seen by many locals before their ‘disappearance’, and it is more than one ‘eye witness’ that has pointed to the site of the ‘pit’.
A Wyvern or two, plus a couple of Firefly fusalages would takesome serious crushing, even with a large tank !!for what purpose, if they were going into a big ready made pit anyhow?
Both types were built for Navy carrier landings. They were built like the proverbial brick sh.t h..se, and would easily suvive:
“If there are any buried airframes they will be well & truly wrecked by the weight of soil & corrosion anyway.” yea right!!!!(You should see the Wyvern stuck in the ground at Littlehampton…and that crashed in from 10k feet)
Now I am not saying they are there…or that they might even be there…but I am saying that we shall have to be sure that they are not there..
The biggest problems will be the costs..the timetable…and the reparations to satisfy the local councils.
At least some of us can get down and dirty and recover some valuable treasure on land……can’t get involved with the Goodwin Sands…would get wet and probably trip over some ‘wannaby aviation celebrity’.
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