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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: zack1234 on February 16, 2013, 03:46:35 AM
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According to the BBC the search has been called off.
And it was a myth about them being Buried :old:
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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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What I am having for tea tonight Bruv?
And where is my £5000? :cry
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i think i heard bruv say something about a knuckle sandwich :D
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Dear lord.......epic fail...check out the title (http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac82/mbailey166066/facepalm_anim_test-05_zps9afd69ad.gif)
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/16/global-video-gaming-company-that-backed-search-for-wwii-fighter-jets-says-no/
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Dear lord.......epic fail...check out the title
:huh :rofl
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LOL!!!!!!!!!!
No there are no WW2 jets here. Just some rusty old propeller planes. Throw the dirt back in...........
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One view on the matter:
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/3953-myanmar-s-phantom-spitfires-how-a-legend-was-born.html (http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/3953-myanmar-s-phantom-spitfires-how-a-legend-was-born.html)
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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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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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Dug up and sold for scrap a few months ago by local tribal chieftans?
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One view on the matter:
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/3953-myanmar-s-phantom-spitfires-how-a-legend-was-born.html (http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/3953-myanmar-s-phantom-spitfires-how-a-legend-was-born.html)
Good article.
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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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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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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.
g
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Okay, bad example. I didn't remember that correctly. I was thinking only of the team that found her, not all the previous teams.
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Plus, wood or not, burried in a humid muddy soild would yield a pile of metalic rust by now.
There would be very little rust.
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There would be very little rust.
What makes you say that?
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What makes you say that?
Because aeroplanes aren't flying cars dingleberry :old:
Rust requires water, oxygen and ferrite and there isn't very much ferrite in Spitfire. Mostly it's just confined to selected engine parts. Silicon and magnesium alloys oxidise but that's different.
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You're being too literal.
By rust I meant corrode, oxidize, deteriorate. We know this to happen even when WW2 planes weren't burried in wet soil.
For a minute I thought you might know some special packing method which prevented it, but I was waiting to see what you had to say before getting into that.
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You're being too literal.
By rust I meant corrode, oxidize, deteriorate. We know this to happen even when WW2 planes weren't burried in wet soil.
Not literal, accurate. I notice with interest that once again you become defensive and reframe the discussion instead of taking the opportunity to accept knowledge and learn something in good faith.
For a minute I thought you might know some special packing method which prevented it, but I was waiting to see what you had to say before getting into that.
I do. Exclude one of those three components I listed above, like the Spitfire found in the Irish bog (no oxygen). They just recharged the battery, refuelled it and flew it away. :old:
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Not literal, accurate. I notice with interest that once again you become defensive and reframe the discussion instead of taking the opportunity to accept knowledge and learn something in good faith.
And I notice more of your patented roadkill. I am not defensive and I am not reframing jack toejam. You were taking "rust" to be too literal. You were trying to nitpick some finer point and single it out as an excuse to throw insults my way. This is common with many of your posts.
I do. Exclude one of those three components I listed above, like the Spitfire found in the Irish bog (no oxygen). They just recharged the battery, refuelled it and flew it away. :old:
Now, if I was going to act like YOU I'd try to throw insults at you for even making such a comment, but I'm not. And I"m not taking you too literally. Rather 2-faced of you to act so literal in one line (to the point of verbal assault) then in the next turn around and take an exaggerated stance. You're either bipolar or trolling. In either case, I'm not biting the stinky bait.
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And I notice more of your patented roadkill. I am not defensive and I am not reframing jack toejam. You were taking "rust" to be too literal. You were trying to nitpick some finer point and single it out as an excuse to throw insults my way. This is common with many of your posts.
You didn't know did you, the difference between rust, corrosion and oxidisation? Rusty aeroplanes :rolleyes: Your technical knowledge knows no start does it :D
Now, if I was going to act like YOU I'd try to throw insults at you for even making such a comment...
...You're either bipolar or trolling. In either case, I'm not biting the stinky bait.
...and more classic Krusty, avoid explicitly breaking the rules while still sneaking in your retaliatory insult. Excellent.
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Krusty, are you always a victim?
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Now, if I was going to act like YOU I'd try to throw insults at you for even making such a comment, but I'm not. And I"m not taking you too literally. Rather 2-faced of you to act so literal in one line (to the point of verbal assault) then in the next turn around and take an exaggerated stance. You're either bipolar or trolling. In either case, I'm not biting the stinky bait.
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