Burma Spitfires Merged thread. Put all new info in here please.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by pstyle

This article is somewhat worrying:
http://news.discovery.com/history/wo...ne-120502.html

"2-year-old Cundall claims he was pressured into abandoning his claim to the 67-year-old fighters by Brooks, a British version of Donald Trump who presented him with a "memorandum of understanding" that took control of his overseas activities, the Vancouver Sun said."

Gad-damned tories and their big business brown nosing...

They were literally up for grabs, the Government was only involved because of the embargo on Burma.

Once Cundall's claims were proven true, Brooks stepped in and asked Cameron to sort that out for them, so that he could do whatever he wanted with the Spits. A couple of bribes here and there, and the Burmese government is happy for whoever wants to recover the Spits to proceed.
Cundall should have kept it quiet and asked for more funds, in this way he lost all the investment he made and is left with nothing. It's disgusting, but unfortunately there's nothing he can do about it.

As I said, the warbirds entourage is not all roses...

[arthursmedley]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

Once Cundall's claims were proven true,

Absolutely no such thing has occurred. You won't hear anything more about this except in a year's time when one of our broadsheets will pick up on a "whatever happend to those Burmese Spits" story and surprise, surprise.....it will all have been pie in the sky.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

Absolutely no such thing has occurred. You won't hear anything more about this except in a year's time when one of our broadsheets will pick up on a "whatever happend to those Burmese Spits" story and surprise, surprise.....it will all have been pie in the sky.

A very reputable source in the entourage guaranteed me it happened, besides you wouldn't have had such a turmoil for a load of baloney..

[arthursmedley]

From The Times, May 1990.

Wonder where all those lovely Lancs went?

[Sternjaeger II]

yeah, I remember hearing that story, and I remember being told that as they started digging they actually went through them: they had managed to locate them with radars, but albeit having preserved the original shape, the aluminium had deteriorated so much over the years that they were unsalvageable.

This time we're talking about crated and preserved stuff, not just wrapped and buried.

[arthursmedley]

Or...there were no Lancs there in the first place! To save face the good Doctor at the heart of the Lanc story convinced himself (but few others) that "unusual" soil conditions had oxidised the aluminium and er....all those steel fittings, engine cradles, turret motors, etc., leaving just a residue that ground radar-that boon of archaeological wishful thinking-had picked up.

This Burma story is just another example but mixed in with a rather too gullible PR advisor to our PM. That don't really matter 'cause our mainstream media have now moved on to another sound-bite.

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by arthursmedley

Or...there were no Lancs there in the first place! To save face the good Doctor at the heart of the Lanc story convinced himself (but few others) that "unusual" soil conditions had oxidised the aluminium and er....all those steel fittings, engine cradles, turret motors, etc., leaving just a residue that ground radar-that boon of archaeological wishful thinking-had picked up.

This Burma story is just another example but mixed in with a rather too gullible PR advisor to our PM. That don't really matter 'cause our mainstream media have now moved on to another sound-bite.

lol maybe, I dunno much more about the Lancs, but this is another story apparently.. a bit of wishful thinking never hurt anybody anyway, all we can do is wait, we should be pretty well used by now

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

This time we're talking about crated and preserved stuff, not just wrapped and buried.

It's still burma.
Maybe they put them into pelican cases...

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by swiss

It's still burma.
Maybe they put them into pelican cases...

hehehe maybe!