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I shall be watching avidly to see how they get on.........I find this story very interesting as I'd never heard about Spits being buried in Burma before this story broke in April!
I seriously hope they make a documentary of the digs so we get to see the resyults if they find the aircraft.
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Posted November 29, 2012, 19:42:26 PM
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Close encounters of the Merlin kind.
Should be interesting. Look forward to seeing the digs start in Jan. The article I saw on TV said 'all we know is that there is metal there. We can't tell scrap from Spitfires'.
The only way forward now, is to dig.
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Posted November 29, 2012, 21:49:24 PM
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Posted January 04, 2013, 21:13:41 PM
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Posted January 18, 2013, 15:12:33 PM
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I hope they find something.
I felt enlightened by the image of the Spitfire captioned 'The Spitfire's Winning Design' - great that they thought to put an engine in it...
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Posted January 18, 2013, 15:20:21 PM
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It's even greater when you consider that the Merlin engine wouldn't have been developed at all if it hadn't been for the private funding of Lady Houston who paid £100,000for Rolls Royce to develop the PV 12 engine for the Supermarie S6 (Also designed by RJ Mitchell) Schneider trophy entry in 1931!!
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Posted January 18, 2013, 22:08:02 PM
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I had assumed it was on a slow down due to the political situation in Burma.
Not sure where the troubles are occuring compared to where they are.
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Posted February 13, 2013, 17:15:57 PM
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Posted February 16, 2013, 15:17:27 PM
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 Oh well it was worth a try...
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It did seem a bit too good to be true, but I really was hoping
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Posted February 16, 2013, 16:26:17 PM
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Posted February 24, 2013, 17:45:26 PM
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Naughty me, I glossed over that as I thought is was to do with Burma!! 
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