VERY OT - 60 Spitfires Found

I have a Spitfire compass from the War.

 

So far

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/featurenews/view/1246870/1/.html

 

Channelnewsasia?! Lol... I know where that is from hahaha

 

Brilliant, one the greatest planes ever and the pilots who flew them are all Hereos.
Even if you can't see it as soon as you hear those engines you know the Spitfire.

 

Those Merlin engines send a shiver down my spine. Just imagine if you were a German pilot and out of the cloud pops a Spitfire on your tail.. I'd just bail out straight away.
I still see them as the most graceful plane I've ever seen. A true joy to behold.

 

some early morning rep!

 

Totally agree ACS a thing of beauty.

 

ACS - the original Mustangs (P51) that the americans sent over had an allison engine in them and they were a pretty ordinary fighter/bomber then someone had the idea to bang a merlin in them and they became another iconic plane of the war - the new engine allowed them to increase their ceiling so they could escort the high alltitude bombers and they were as fast as anything

 

I remember that. The Cadillac of the sky. Recently made famous by the red tails film I believe.

 

The lanc and the Mosquito would be my second and third. Although I do have a slight leaning towards the ME109

 

In my Colo wig I'm a sexy beast.

 

Would have been a very interesting time to live, agree that it would be my pick too.Always loved the spitfire since having a die cast "britains" model with working propeller as a kid. Some iconic planes in those days, agree with the Lancaster and Hurricane and who can forget 633 squadron mosquito and many others, boulton paul defiant maybe or Wellington or the flying boat Sunderland lol.

 

I know for a fact had I been around at the time of World War 2, I'd have been one of the ones shot almost immediately having just got off the ground/back of the boat/lorry (possibly friendly fire too )... But there is something intensely romantic about a time period of upheaval where men fight for good. One of my favourite films was "Reach for the Sky". My grandad used to watch it with me every other weekend. He himself was trying to be a Lancaster bomber pilot but was dismissed because he had a gammy leg... His affinity for them stayed with him because he was a fantastic painter and when he died we were left with a crate of oil paintings of Lancasters bombing the bejesus out of stuff!

Men were gentlemen, ladies were valiant... All the same, I'm glad I can't go back in a time machine! DT's in this lifetime, so I wouldn't choose any period other than the present

 

Of course it's the only colour ACS loves.

 

Actually Red, Strawberry Blonde or Ginger will do for me like

 

Aw bless. you could take her with you in a time machine. Amy Pond gets by with the Doctor.

 

A group of archaeologists, historians and scientists have admitted defeat in a mystery which has spanned decades.

After just over a month of digging for lost World War Two Spitfire planes in Burma they have concluded that none exists.

"No Spitfires were delivered in crates and buried at RAF Mingaladon (in Burma) during 1945 and 1946," a statement from the company funding the search read.

Rather than discovering the iconic World War Two planes, the team uncovered evidence which suggested that it would have been impossible to have buried them.

http://news.sky.com/story/1053172/burma-spitfire-mystery-is-solved