Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

What do you do when faced with a bottomless hole somewhere in Asia and NO SPITFIRES? Declare victory.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/int...uccess/1098368

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

Quite right, David. After all, the voyage of the Titanic was a great success apart from one event at the end.

Bruce

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

But seen as a piece of conceptual art, the dig had a lot going for it.

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

Would that be Contemporary, Post-Modern or Surrealism?

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

Would have to be Surrealism. Salvador Dali could do a lot with this story! Melted Spitfires over something? :)

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

Definitely surreal. Given how preposterous it all sounded from the get-go, gentleman farmer David Cundall must have some surrealistic powers of persuasion to have been able to get so many people to hitch their wagons to his unwaivering conviction that the Spits were there. One, two or even 6 would have been a believable dream come true, but 120 to 140? A true case of obsession leading to blindness.

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

The Myanmar Times of 25 June contains a well-reasoned summing up of the Burmese Buried Spitfire crusade:

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/nat...spitfires.html

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

Excellent article. The final shovel full of dirt on the coffin, so to speak.

Re: 20 Crated Spitfires Found in Burma????
 

One more time! The hunt for the Buried Burmese Spitfires [tm] is to resume!

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news...o-2014-4864356

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http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news...y-hunt-5819555

The hunt is back on, inspired with improved briefing!