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Offline Guppy35

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How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« on: April 19, 2012, 01:07:31 AM »
Found on another forum.  Apparently found by oil surveyors in the Sahara.  How'd you like to find that in your back yard.

RAF P40 bellied in

http://www.konradus.com/forum/read.php?f=13&i=7154&t=7154&filtr=0&page=1
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 02:29:56 AM »
Nice find. :aok
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 09:16:57 AM »
Oh my oh my oh my!!!!!  :O

Amazing!!

I love desert climate!! :x :D

Seeing pics of those time capsules just never gets old!

Hopefully everything goes smoothly for the plane from now on and it gets recovered without any issues.
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 08:50:46 PM »
WOW!  :O

The bullet holes in the side kind of makes ya stop and think what those ole boys were dealing with. Amazing find.
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 10:05:54 PM »
Man, that thing took a beating! Would have been better to do it on the soft sand, probably. That looks in really good shape, though. Sand blasted most of the paint off, but the cockpit is suprisingly intact.

I bet somebody will start working on salvaging it pretty soon.
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2012, 11:01:37 PM »
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2012, 11:06:02 PM »
« Last Edit: April 23, 2012, 12:37:24 AM by Tupac »
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2012, 06:11:30 AM »
Why d0 I see a scarey picture in my head of a line of air'rabs walking a line of heavily weighed down camels to the metal shop?

No shopping carts in the desert I guess.
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2012, 06:34:21 PM »
Not looters, the guys with the ammo are army. Most of the others are wearing work overalls, some kind of uniform. These are not random looters. Everyone knows how much a warbird is worth these days. This will be recovered I think.
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2012, 07:05:21 PM »
Quote from: cpxxx on April 23, 2012, 06:34:21 PM
Not looters, the guys with the ammo are army. Most of the others are wearing work overalls, some kind of uniform. These are not random looters. Everyone knows how much a warbird is worth these days. This will be recovered I think.

This would be my guess, they were also the only people there in any form of uniform, and I'd suspect the Egyptian military is as keen to looters getting their hands on those MGs as most anyone else.
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2012, 10:35:43 PM »
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2012, 11:52:13 PM »
Quote from: Rich52 on April 23, 2012, 06:11:30 AM
Why d0 I see a scarey picture in my head of a line of air'rabs walking a line of heavily weighed down camels to the metal shop?

No shopping carts in the desert I guess.
'Cause guy's like that would totally be uploading photos and videos of it to the internet.....  Oh wait....


Try to control that knee jerk response long enough to think about things first.
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2012, 12:52:14 AM »
I keep waiting for Ink to pop inhere and want to use this wear and tear as basis for a skin.  ;)
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Re: How bout a P40 to go with those 20 buried Spits?
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2012, 04:17:57 PM »
Quote from: cpxxx on April 23, 2012, 06:34:21 PM
Not looters, the guys with the ammo are army. Most of the others are wearing work overalls, some kind of uniform. These are not random looters. Everyone knows how much a warbird is worth these days. This will be recovered I think.

Any ordnance guys know how stable (or unstable) 70-year-old ammo might be, especially since it is Sahara-Baked? Are most going to be duds? If I found 70-year-old explosive cannon shells I think I'd be a lot more cautious.

It will be interesting to see if the plane gets salvaged.
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