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Offline zack1234

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Burma Spitfires
« on: February 16, 2013, 03:46:35 AM »
According to the BBC the search has been called off.

And it was a myth about them being Buried  :old:
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2013, 04:57:26 AM »
hmmm they still might be buried elsewhere but this is what you get when you believe senile old men like you  :lol

not impressed with the BBC's photoshop of a clipped wing spit being labelled as elliptical.   :old:
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2013, 04:58:47 AM »
What I am having for tea tonight Bruv?

And where is my £5000? :cry
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2013, 07:45:24 AM »
i think i heard bruv say something about a knuckle sandwich :D
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2013, 08:01:49 AM »
« Last Edit: February 16, 2013, 08:44:20 AM by mbailey »
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2013, 08:42:06 AM »
Quote from: mbailey on February 16, 2013, 08:01:49 AM
Dear lord.......epic fail...check out the title


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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2013, 08:42:34 AM »
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
 No there are no WW2 jets here. Just some rusty old propeller planes. Throw the dirt back in...........
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2013, 11:14:07 AM »
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2013, 01:12:15 PM »
I'm waiting on one very reliable Spitfire source to say this hunt is dead.  He hasn't yet, so he must believe there was some truth to the story.  He has no investment in promoting the idea, but has been on the ground there in Burma a number of times for Spitfire stuff.

The game designers got the publicity they wanted.  It doesn't appear they were in it for more then that.  While this has been a fairly recently visible story, the actual hunt has gone on for close to two decades.
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2013, 01:23:28 PM »
That alone makes me wonder, though. Hell, it didn't take that long to find Glacier Girl, and she was inside the middle of a freaking icecap!

Plus, wood or not, burried in a humid muddy soild would yield a pile of metalic rust by now. Especially if, as in the one recounting, they sank into the mud and were lost.

Honestly, when I read it some months back I was a bit hopeful, but highly dubious. Now? After that well reasoned article, I have doubts they ever existed.
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2013, 07:31:12 PM »
Dug up and sold for scrap a few months ago by local tribal chieftans?
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2013, 10:18:21 PM »
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2013, 12:13:08 AM »
Quote from: Krusty on February 16, 2013, 01:23:28 PM
That alone makes me wonder, though. Hell, it didn't take that long to find Glacier Girl, and she was inside the middle of a freaking icecap!

Plus, wood or not, burried in a humid muddy soild would yield a pile of metalic rust by now. Especially if, as in the one recounting, they sank into the mud and were lost.

Honestly, when I read it some months back I was a bit hopeful, but highly dubious. Now? After that well reasoned article, I have doubts they ever existed.

Depends on how oxygen rich the swamp water is.
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2013, 12:32:06 AM »
It wasn't a peat bog, if that's what you mean :P

Even in situations where there's only moderate moisture in the soil, it's not just oxygen. It's bacteria and parasites and worms and all those other micro-organisms which cause the decomposition of wood and other materials. They tend (more times than not) to thrive in moist soil. Couple that with a humid tropical climate and a time span of 60 years and you're only speeding up deterioration of anything that's underground.
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Re: Burma Spitfires
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2013, 04:20:57 AM »
Quote from: Krusty on February 16, 2013, 01:23:28 PM
That alone makes me wonder, though. Hell, it didn't take that long to find Glacier Girl, and she was inside the middle of a freaking icecap!

"But the abandoned planes of the Lost Squadron were not forgotten, and between 1977 and 1990, eleven different teams tried and failed to find and recover the aircraft. "

"In 1988, two explorers sponsored by the Greenland Expedition Society finally found a lead." ... And then they finally found the planes in 1990.

Yup, not that long. Only 13 years and 11 different search teams.

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