Maybe we should start a buried aircraft/engine rumour thread?
It might be amusing to cross reference various tales and sources.
Whilst almost 99.9% are surely the aviation equivalent of an urban myth, something interesting may yet come out of it. Here we go. See the new thread…..
Good idea Andy. Years ago when I was a member of an Aviation Archeology group. We even had the plans to where everything was buried from the MOD with permission to dig within 6 months. The only thing that left this Airfield were the staff. All the Hardware was buried It was a USAF Base.
And another one. Lancaster gun turrets, engines, etc buried at an Airfield, I was told this by a reliable source from an employee that helped bury this stuff.
When you think about it at the end of the war it was indeed worthless junk with so many tons of it. The scrap merchants weren’t interested apart from when they broke up a load of Lancs at Tarrant Rushton, used after the war by Flight Refueling. Of which its understood that the Battle of Britain Lanc came from TR. They realized this was the last one in flying condition
Think about it there was a lot of it at the time worthless junk. So it had to go somewhere. Manly in the ground so its not really a myth.:)
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