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Interesting story.

Apparently at the very end of WWII, Mountbatten ordered 20 Spitfires in Burma to be buried to prevent the Japanese from taking them. The interesting part is that they were still in factory packing crates, joints greased, wrapped in wax paper, etc. and apparently should still be in good condition.

A farmer from Lincolnshire has been looking for them off and on for the past 15 years and apparently succeeded earlier this year. Kudos to David Cameron, he is helping smooth things out politically for this and has promised that the government will not make a claim on the aircraft.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... to-UK.html

All kinds of cool things happening in Myanmar nowadays. I'm thinking of heading over there for a week.

I wonder what the details are? I would imagine that they have to pay the Myanmar government for the privelege of taking what they could easily claim as theirs, plus Mr Cundall can stand to make a pretty penny from each.

Another story mostly repeating the info from the first but a couple of additional points of interest:

1. These are Griffon powered Spitfires not the more common Merlin ones.
2. They actually put a borescope into a few of the crates and verified the condition of the aircraft.
3. It's not explicit but it sounds like it may actually be 28 rather than 20 of them.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/ ... =obnetwork