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Excited….. They've found a box :) (spitfire content)
tomhoward
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20957162

Posted 11 years ago

stumpyjon
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Full of muddy water…..

Posted 11 years ago

dooosuk
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Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Posted 11 years ago

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crush83
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Will be interesting to see how it pans out.

their going to pump it out not pan it 😉 ……

Posted 11 years ago

CountZero
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Now, if someone can just locate some crated and buried Beaufighters,Typhoons or Tempests in good nick, I’d get very excited! 😀

Posted 11 years ago

dday
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It’s probably just a plane box.. 😉

Posted 11 years ago

nedrapier
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“encouraging” to find a crate full of muddy water?

expecting the contents to be in very good condition after they’ve been submerged in muddy water? How many wet/ dry cycles has the contents of this crate been through?

Still interested, though!

Posted 11 years ago

sputnik
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“…crate full of muddy water…” , in Burma??????
That bollocks, Wiki says he was buried in Chicago.

Posted 11 years ago

simons_nicolai-uk
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expecting the contents to be in very good condition after they’ve been submerged in muddy water? How many wet/ dry cycles has the contents of this crate been through?

Piece I read a while back said that the crates were thought to be deep enough that they’d be below the water table, permanently wet and thus minimal oxygen/corrosion.

Posted 11 years ago

bencooper
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Coincidentally my mother-in-law was in Burma over Christmas, tracking down a sister ship to the Waverley. She found it too – a Glasgow-made paddle steamer still puttering about 😉

Posted 11 years ago

nedrapier
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Ah, cheers Simon, that makes sense. We shall see! Exciterometer flickering up a notch.

Posted 11 years ago

singletracked
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“…crate full of muddy water…” , in Burma??????
That bollocks, Wiki says he was buried in Chicago.

*Clap clap*

Posted 11 years ago

soma_rich
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bencooper whats is the Waverleys sister ship called. Any info online? I would be interested in reading about that!

Posted 11 years ago

plop_pants
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A washer and a packet of Haribo.

Posted 11 years ago

bencooper
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bencooper whats is the Waverleys sister ship called. Any info online? I would be interested in reading about that!

No idea 🙂 All I’ve seen is an emailed photo of the thing, which looks like the Waverley but with big awnings all over it.

Posted 11 years ago

Northwind
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nedrapier – Member

expecting the contents to be in very good condition after they’ve been submerged in muddy water? How many wet/ dry cycles has the contents of this crate been through?

Some of the ones that are currently flying were recovered from their crash sites years on- there’s a Mk1 that was in a river for 30 years

Posted 11 years ago

boblo
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Apparently they found a slightly bent one in the middle of the main East Mids runway yesterday…

Posted 11 years ago

mt
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CountZero – Member
Now, if someone can just locate some crated and buried Beaufighters,Typhoons or Tempests in good nick, I’d get very excited!

Now if they also found some Fokkerwulfs, some 109’s and various Heinkels. Oh and what about a Zero then that would be a bit of fun.

Personally I’d like the start an Ack Ack reenactment society.

Posted 11 years ago