Full Scale WWII Spitfire's - NIP
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These Spitfire's are equipped with the Rolls Royce Griffon engines.
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Like a treasure chest stuffed with priceless booty, as many as 20 World War II-era Spitfire planes are perfectly preserved, buried in crates beneath Burma and after 67 years underground, they're set to be uncovered.
The planes were shipped in standard fashion in 1945 from their manufacturer in England to the Far East country: waxed, wrapped in greased paper and tarred to protect against the elements. They were then buried in the crates they were shipped in, rather than let them fall into enemy hands, said David Cundall, an aviation enthusiast who has spent 15 years and about $200,000 in his efforts to reveal the lost planes
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...#ixzz1sZJQttAO
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saw this posted over on RCSB about the buried Spitfires.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...-in-Burma.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/w...-in-Burma.html