Friday, October 19, 2012

Underground magic.

To my generation, the Spitfire is iconic.  All us young boys wanted to be Spitfire pilots when we grew up.  So it's been somewhat sad - if inevitable - watching the number of serviceable planes slowly dwindle over the decades.  But hope is at hand. Apparently, in the dying days of the war, and for reasons which I don't fully understand, some 60 brand new Spitfires were crated and buried in the Burmese jungle at a secret location.  And now a treasure hunter has found that location and plans to dig them up.  Records show that they were carefully greased and waxed before being crated, so there's a good chance that a least some of them may be in good flying order.  This could easily double the number of serviceable Spits out there and hopefully give us a good few more years of seeing them fly.  On a related matter, shame that a lack of spare parts means that the one surviving airworthy Avro Vulcan will have to be grounded next year.  Beautiful aircraft.

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