140 Crated Spitfires buried in Burma (Myanmar)?

[tankbarrell]

Originally Posted by Lang

Nobody has seen them, nobody has had ground penetrating radar on the job.

True for the first part, not true for the second. A very reliable source says he has seen the radar scans and they show items of the correct size to be crates but GPR is hard to interpret and they may just be shadows in the ground by now.

[Lang]

Adrian,

I still stick with no ground penetrating radar. I notice a fair bit of hedging bets in your contact's information.

Lang

[tankbarrell]

You are assuming you know the identity of 'my contact'.....

Actually, he is not my contact, just a very reliable source of information. He has merely stated he has seen scans (that purport to be) of the site and they show what seems to be areas of approximately the right size and shape to be crates.

Unlike many, he doesn't post opinion as fact so a degree of bet hedging is inevitable.

I am fairly sure that anything pulled out of the ground in that area will be more of curiosity value than anything else but I hope I'm wrong!

[Lang]

Adrian,

I think you may be right about the condition. It would be nice to think some were restorable to at least a good static display standard. A flying restoration would be fantastic.

Lang

[Mrs Vampire]

So no further reports after many months.

[Wayne McGee]

It's been less than a month since I posted the most recent article that laid claim to [U]140[U] buried Spits', Hanno must have joined my thread starter with an older one dating back to the origonal, much smaller discovery.

Cheers

Wayne

[cletrac (RIP)]

I tried to find a picture I have here somewhere but no luck yet. It's a 'photo' of the mines south of Drumheller at the 300 and 600 foot levels made from a helicopter with a ball hanging from a cable as he flew a grid over the site. I don't know if it was magnetic or radar based but you can see which stopes have collapsed and which ones had junk abandoned in them.
If anyone was serious about those Spitfires wouldn't they just get hold of some of that equipment for a few days and know for sure?
I couldn't believe you could come up with images like that and this was about 15 years ago!