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I have been made aware of the location of a Spitfire abandoned at the end of WW2. Long story but a bloke that worked for me told me what airstrip it was buried on and the bloke that heard from the person that saw it buried let slip where it was on the airstrip without realising that I knew what...

Inevitably the cost of insurance will kill the cost of flying progressively rarer warbirds, plus the rarer ones have less resources to keep them in the air in the first place. Given its value is assume the a/c will be recovered. What amazes me is how aircraft that were last seen by their...

Inevitably the cost of insurance will kill the cost of flying progressively rarer warbirds, plus the rarer ones have less resources to keep them in the air in the first place. Given its value is assume the a/c will be recovered. What amazes me is how aircraft that were last seen by their pilot...

Thanks for the clarification shortround, I made an assumption when I heard about the machine and its value in the Med as to which one it was and did not dig deeper. Once again thanks :)

Martin b10 bomber otherwise known as the Glenn Martin for its role of reconnaissance in the mederterainian that allowed the sinking of the Italian fleet in Taranto harbour where the Sunderlands were to slow and loud for the purpose. If the Italians were able to run the med it is difficult to see...

Beechcraft 17 staggerwing?

This book does have excerpts out of they flew they fell they survived. A good read. All reproduced in the style of the various contributors. Some are short and to the point and others are very indepth to the pow experience. I like the story when upon being released he nicked a mustang, cleaned...

Panavia tornado

Just got home from bull creek aviation museum in Perth Western Australia and purchased a copy of Silk and barbed wire. Twenty odd years ago I had in my possession a binder A4 book I think called They Flew, They Fell, They Survived from a gentleman that used to call at our farm on business. This...

I was going to say Lysander for all the agents dropped into the field but over 1700 made then I was going to say the V2 rocket for all the strategic resources its production diverted from Germany's war effort but you know they made 3000 of them. That device almost lost Germany the war...

I have a slightly different take on the whole thing (though I must say I gave up on reading every post after say the twenty page mark) I believe the p38 was one of the most expensive fighters produced in ww2, the Mosquitos cost was around two thirds the price of the p38 and didn't use as much...

It seems then that either way, if these machines are found then they could be classified as abandoned goods. then it will come down to whose land that it sits on for tenure.

What was the tenure arrangements on spitfires brought into australia towards the end of ww2? Was it a lend lease arrangement or were they purchased outright by the Australian government? This goes toward the leagle question of how you might get tenure of one if you knew its whereabouts...

Now I am told in Australia that the law goes a little like this, you find a buried aircraft in the outback and you dig down to it and open up the fuselage and write your name ,address and passport number etc in a part of the aircraft that is unremovable . Then you bury it again and you put a...

I like the myth that night fighter pilots ate a lot of carrots and it improved night vision. This was perpetuated to cover up radar and how effective it was in night fighting. The best bit of propaganda ever; we still believe it today.