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Apparently, anyone who was harbouring hopes of flying ’round in a vintage Spitfire should give up hope now. The project that was aiming to dig up some Spitfires supposedly buried in Burma after WWII has turned up nothing but mud and some bits of old runway.
According to legend, at the end of WWII, 124 disassembled Spitfires were put in crates, and then buried at Lord Mountbatten’s orders. After excessive amounts of effort (involving meetings between David Cameron and the Burmese President, no less), an operation funded by Belarusian site wargaming.net set out to dig up the Spitfires. They collected historical evidence of the story, and even conducted scientific tests that seemed to show high levels of metal in the right places.
Sadly, after a week of digs, the crack archaeologists turned up nothing but bits of old metal runway. The project leader, one David Cundall, maintains that there are Spitfires somewhere, they’re just looking in the wrong places. Still, considering that both the archaeologists and the company backing it have said that they’ve failed, I think we can consider this myth well and truly busted. [BBC]
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I notice you’re really getting into that new copy of Photoshop, Chris!
That’s just overlaying one image with another….I could do that in Paint!
maybe we should start setting you weekly challenges
Well if people are looking for spitfires maybe they should look here? http://www.criticalgamer.co.uk/2013/01/17/blackmoon-remembers-the-few-in-their-upcoming-battle-of-britain-rts/
Blackmoon I know welcome community input – sure its a game, but they want it to have some resemblance of history to it, so if you love your spitfires why not email them with ideas and comments!
That embossed shadow and cut out? Top skills in a it’s-friday-and-I-want-to-get-the-hell-out-the-door-so-I-Googled-’Spitfire’-and-’sad face’. You could have added a lens flare too ya lazy bum.
I am really sad to hear we are not going to see any history hidden away in the ground
It is interesting and all, but considering the planes were hidden its not really going to be easy as digging them up next to an old airfield.
Also it is just a tad redundant given the state of current manufacturing technology, there are schematics available and there is nothing that couldn’t be built new using CAM and Rapid prototyping.