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[Lizzie_Zoom]

The BBC News at 1300 today announced that progress has been made to locate the, now 30, Spitfire WW2 aircraft buried in crates in Burma.

News of these first broke in April this year
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17710598

Latest on-line news:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129520/The-new-Battle-Burma-Find-20-buried-Spitfires-make-fly.html

Now evidence has been gathered, with surveys, eye witness accounts, and official documents that suggests these abandoned, crated up aircraft, are still in the ground since being buried in 1945.

It is thought they will be in perfect condition, ready to be reassembled.

The current 35 flyable Spitfires that exist today are apparently worth £1,000,000 each, so the value of the 30 apparently ready for excavation is obvious.

[tunnie]

Many more than 30, deals been done to dig them up:

http://www.flyingmag.com/news/start-digging-spitfires-cleared-excavation

[tunnie]

It's also the rare Mk14 with Griffon Engines 

[tunnie]

Also nice to see The Mail is being as accurate as normal 

[cem_devecioglu]

2050 hp
 
would be handy    , but with those fuel prices I'm afraid they will spend more of their time on the ground

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Many more than 30, deals been done to dig them up:

http://www.flyingmag.com/news/start-digging-spitfires-cleared-excavation

That is interesting Tunnie.

The first report in April mentioned 20.  Today the BBC News said 30.  The article you have linked in says 60!

Whatever it is, if they do still exist, it is a very exciting find.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

2050 hp
 
would be handy    , but with those fuel prices I'm afraid they will spend more of their time on the ground

The people who buy them Cem will not be worried about the running costs

Multi-millionaires or even billionaires only need apply!

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It's also the rare Mk14 with Griffon Engines 

What a tasty combination Tunnie.

The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a British 37-litre capacity, 60-degree V-12, liquid-cooled aero engine designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited.



 

[tunnie]

Many more than 30, deals been done to dig them up:

http://www.flyingmag.com/news/start-digging-spitfires-cleared-excavation

That is interesting Tunnie.

The first report in April mentioned 20.  Today the BBC News said 30.  The article you have linked in says 60!

Whatever it is, if they do still exist, it is a very exciting find.

Already been found, Cameron has agreed with Burma that we can dig them up and take them back

[cem_devecioglu]

2050 hp
 
would be handy    , but with those fuel prices I'm afraid they will spend more of their time on the ground

The people who buy them Cem will not be worried about the running costs

Multi-millionaires or even billionaires only need apply!

trust me they are more skimpy then you or me
 
I still remember my citizen buying ferrari and trying to lpg it

[Entwood]

there are currently 35 .. each one worth £1,000,000 .... ok that makes sense .. so if there were suddenly another 30, or 60, or more .. it does NOT follow that each one would be worth £1,000,000 .. in fact .. that number being available would probably drop the value of all the existing ones as well ...

35 = relatively rare, 95 = fairly common  ? ? 

[Lizzie_Zoom]

there are currently 35 .. each one worth £1,000,000 .... ok that makes sense .. so if there were suddenly another 30, or 60, or more .. it does NOT follow that each one would be worth £1,000,000 .. in fact .. that number being available would probably drop the value of all the existing ones as well ...

35 = relatively rare, 95 = fairly common  ? ? 

You could be right Entwood, but the market may very well see it differently.  95 would still be in the "rare" category, and with so many really rich individuals around the World who will love this genuine icon of aviation they will be like bees to the honey pot.

[henryd]

I reckon the prices for these would stay high,remember these were brand new planes still crated with zero flying hours on there airframes

[plym ian]

It's also the rare Mk14 with Griffon Engines 

What a tasty combination Tunnie.

The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a British 37-litre capacity, 60-degree V-12, liquid-cooled aero engine designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited.



 

blimey lizzie your very knowledgable, we should call you 'wikilizzie'


or are you just fast on the google button

[Lizzie_Zoom]

It's also the rare Mk14 with Griffon Engines 

What a tasty combination Tunnie.

The Rolls-Royce Griffon is a British 37-litre capacity, 60-degree V-12, liquid-cooled aero engine designed and built by Rolls-Royce Limited.



 

blimey lizzie your very knowledgable, we should call you 'wikilizzie'


or are you just fast on the google button

 


I read history, and with University training I know how to do research.  Wiki is banned in universities, but I must admit I do use it as a guide sometimes to point my research in the right direct to build on my existing knowledge on railway, military and social history.  But you never stop learning! That is why I own many books on those subjects plus ones on many other subjects, such as politics.

I already knew about the Griffon engine as much as I do about the Merlin.  I didn't realise though that these were the engines with those Spitfires in Burma.  Thought for some reason they would be older models of Spit, thus the Merlin installed instead.