Non AFV story - Spitfires galore!

TimRoyall · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:17 am Post subject: Non AFV story - Spitfires galore!

ok, I know it's not about afvs but if true this could be the 'barn find' of all time!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...s-17710598

And it's under the politics section!

Tim,

Dontos

Tim

Not a big 'wingie-thingie' fan, BUT that is too cool !!

Thanks for the link.
Regards
Don

Shadow_Bshwackr

Great story! Thanks Tim... Wink

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

A prop-head's "winkfest" lads!

I'm on my second box of tissues already.
Now we want all those crated Corsairs & Seafires, thrown overboard off Australia.

Roy_A_Lingle

Thanks Tim!

Hope they do find them.

When I can not find any AFVs to look at, then I look for airplanes, then ships.

Sgt, Scouts out!

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

A much better update in today's Sunday Telegraph.
MkXIVs, buried in their crates, the comments are worth reading!
www.telegraph.co.uk/tr...Burma.html

"Amazing how the very same newspaper can run this well-informed story and at the same time print the pathetic tat from the front page, which merely confirmed the general impression that your average journalist has a surface facility with words but no other operative mental functions."

Rikard_Hufschmied

It really stirs the imagination. I have similar dream, a dream I'd really like to make an ambition, to locate and salvage the Bulgarian pillbox Panthers. If nothing else I'd like to get resolve on the issue if they are still out there.

Dontos

In the late 70's as an imagination filled teenager living in Germany, I always dreamt of discovering a 'long-lost & forgotten' underground storage facility packed with tanks, left over from WWII.

This was fueled by an 'urban legend' in the Kaiserslautern area of an underground storage bunker in the area of one of the American housing areas that I happened to live in.

Alas reality crept in and dashed such hopes of finding the imaginary cache and riding in 'my' discovered & recovered Tiger II.

Sort of an 'Armor Archaeologist'. (!?)

Regards
Don

Michel_Krauss

Nice story.

It does not has to be that big, I will do with a barn find WW2 German motorcycle or car .. Wink

TrevorLarkum

Dontos wrote:

In the late 70's as an imagination filled teenager living in Germany, I always dreamt of discovering a 'long-lost & forgotten' underground storage facility packed with tanks, left over from WWII.

This was fueled by an 'urban legend' in the Kaiserslautern area of an underground storage bunker in the area of one of the American housing areas that I happened to live in.

Alas reality crept in and dashed such hopes of finding the imaginary cache and riding in 'my' discovered & recovered Tiger II.

I've just been reading a book that talks about something similar under/near the old Panzerkaserne in Paderborn - apparently it was taken seriously enough for archeologists to be brought in to investigate, but nothing was found.

Dennis_Smith · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 192

More wingy thingys in the news:

P-40 found in desert

Doug_Kibbey

Dontos wrote:

In the late 70's as an imagination filled teenager living in Germany, I always dreamt of discovering a 'long-lost & forgotten' underground storage facility packed with tanks, left over from WWII.

This was fueled by an 'urban legend' in the Kaiserslautern area of an underground storage bunker in the area of one of the American housing areas that I happened to live in.

Alas reality crept in and dashed such hopes of finding the imaginary cache and riding in 'my' discovered & recovered Tiger II.

Sort of an 'Armor Archaeologist'. (!?)

Regards
Don

Don't jerk us around, Don...everyone here knows you dream of finding an M50 runner chassis and six recoilless rifles. Laughing

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

It's getting dirty now!
www.telegraph.co.uk/hi...Burma.html

JG300-Ascout

Gee, I bet nobody saw that coming. Wink

Dennis_Smith · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 192

Is this old news? WW2 fighter plane found in desert