buried FW 190s?

[Kanth]

http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/10/14/turkey-to-unearth-german-made-wwii-era-focke-wulf-fighters-buried-upon-us-request

That'll be interesting.  If that's true I'd love to see them restored and see some come to the U.S. on exhibit.

[Chalenge]

Yeah, we have billions of dollars worth of rare fighters buried around the country, but good luck getting them.

Not sure how much stock I put into this story, but if true . . . :

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109029/The-story-secret-Nazi-airplanes-buried-Indiana-field.html

[zack1234]

Like the spitfires buried the Far East 

[pipz]

Like the spitfires buried the Far East 

Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. 

[Kanth]

I never saw the spitfires story, what a shame.

[Zimme83]

Of course there are no buried planes. There is no reason whatsoever to bury a bunch of planes. Much more simple and economic to scrap them and sell the metal. Bury them is also a very bad method if you want to 'store' them.

[pipz]

 

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=buried+iraqi+jet&qpvt=Buried+Iraq+jet&qpvt=Buried+Iraq+jet&qpvt=Buried+Iraq+jet&FORM=IGRE

[Chalenge]

Of course there are no buried planes. There is no reason whatsoever to bury a bunch of planes. Much more simple and economic to scrap them and sell the metal. Bury them is also a very bad method if you want to 'store' them.

Not quite true. At the end of the war there were several airports around the country that were selected for 'slagging,' or aircraft meltdown operations. In the end the only site that was used was Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. However, many, many fighter and bombers had been damaged through training operations (many totally destroyed of course) and could not be flown. Those airplanes were usually flat out dumped in an area of the airfield marked 'condemned' and those were buried. Obviously picked clean of anything useful beforehand.

If you know you have a training airfield in your home town or city, and you are able to get your hands on the outlying platte (airfield and surrounding plots) then you may find a 'condemned' area marked on the map. That's where these wrecks were buried.

Nothing worthy of 'treasure' though.

[Zimme83]

Of course you can bury planes in the ground but it will not be anything that you can dig up after 75 years and get into the air. If it is true that they are buried it will just be a pile of crap. with a lot of time and money  and a bit of luck you might be able to restore a few to static condition and put them at a museum.

[Chalenge]

A lot of airplanes today started off with little more than there manufacturing ID plates, didn't they? Might be worth something then, but hardly 'treasure.'

[DaveBB]

The only planes I know that were legitimately buried are those on Pacific islands at the end of war.  Those planes had their wings and tails smashed off and buried in mass graves.  We've all seen the pictures of stacked B-29s and P-38s ready to be dumped into a big hole by bulldozers.

[pipz]

The only planes I know that were legitimately buried are those on Pacific islands at the end of war.  Those planes had their wings and tails smashed off and buried in mass graves.  We've all seen the pictures of stacked B-29s and P-38s ready to be dumped into a big hole by bulldozers.

We can rebuild them! We have the technology! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGO57y4td-c

[Vulcan]

Of course there are no buried planes. There is no reason whatsoever to bury a bunch of planes. Much more simple and economic to scrap them and sell the metal. Bury them is also a very bad method if you want to 'store' them.

Lots of stuff was simply buried for disposal. There have been massive issues with buried weapons in the Solomons for example. Here in NZ just up the road from me a suspected munitions dump had to be turned into a duck pond as it was considered to dangerous to excavate (some munitions had been turning up in the soil). I know in the Pacific the US buried everything from munitions to rifles to vehicles.

[Serenity]

Lots of stuff was simply buried for disposal. There have been massive issues with buried weapons in the Solomons for example. Here in NZ just up the road from me a suspected munitions dump had to be turned into a duck pond as it was considered to dangerous to excavate (some munitions had been turning up in the soil). I know in the Pacific the US buried everything from munitions to rifles to vehicles.

Now we burn 'em...

[flyndung]

http://ww2live.com/en/content/world-war-2-yes-50-lost-focke-wulf-190-planes-may-be-unearthed-turkey