[Milsurplus] Buried Spitfires.

[Bob kb8tq]

Hi

The market value of WWII planes has gone up a *lot* over the last 50 years. Planes that may have been sitting there in 1967 most certainly are not sitting there on the airstrip (any airstrip) now. If you wish to confirm or deny this, Google satellite imaging is your friend. 

One place all sorts of interesting goodies *might* be is in government bunkers. Not our government (yours or mine) of course. A lot of this stuff got picked up by the “new” local armed forces. They packed it away and stored it for future use. Thailand is a fine place to go it you are interested in seeing a large inventory of Japanese bombs stored and still ready for “future use”. Similar stuff was stored in a lot of places. In some of them it has been destroyed in various conflicts. It’s a pretty good bet there are still bunkers full of this and that and government workers inventorying it every 6 months. 

Bob

> On May 9, 2017, at 6:04 PM, Joe Connor via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> I suck as a proof-reader.
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> My last post should begin as follow:
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> That there are still planes out there, maybe some NIB, is a real possibility.
> 
> Joe Connor
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> On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 5:56 PM, Joe Connor via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> 
> The possibility of buried planes etc. is every possible.
> 
> Remember that the Pacific War ended abruptly and a year or two earlier than expected. The Allies were still shipping all kinds of planes etc. when the war ended. It turned out to be cheaper to leave them there than to fly them back, especially the fighter planes.
> 
> William Manchester, the author and WWII marine, traveled the old battlegrounds of the Pacific in the 1970s for his classic book, "Goodbye, Darkness." He describes how on one Pacific island, there were dozens and dozens of U.S. fighter planes all lined up on a field, located exactly as they had been when they were abandoned in place at the end of the war.
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>                         Joe Connor
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> On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 3:39 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> How long would any wood crate last in a tropical wet environment?  How long can this version of Lasseter's Reef or the Lost Padre Mine keep going? If the Burmese Spitfires are out there doubt they would be of any use after all this time, and why in seventy five years has no one else found them?
> The true treasures troves of equipment, radios and otherwise are still out there today but not buried in some distant jungle. They are buried in the basements, storage units and estate sales that are going on all around us. Anyone who watches what's going on with some of the larger estate sales today can tell you that.
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> Ray F/KA3EKH
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net>] On Behalf Of Hubert Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 3:12 PM
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net <mailto:milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Buried Spitfires.
> 
> Article headline reads,
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> "Buried squadron of spitfires discovered in the Burmese jungle after being tracked down by a British plane enthusiast could take to the skies again 'within three years' ."
> 
> Good golly, i was already  scanning the skies with my binocs, but i didn't see nothin. 
> The article says 8 eyewitness accounts attest to the aircraft burial.
> Other more recent eyewitnesses verify the crates are "really in good condition". They saw it; who can argue?
> Uh-huh.
> I see they have a photo of planes being crated for disposal. Do you get that?  Is that 'reverse logic' ?
> -H
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