Isn't it time you found buried aircraft in Thailand Peter & give the press another wild goose chase?
I'm definitely fairly certain that the alleged burial of a Hughes Spruce Goose buried completely assembled is somewhere behind my house. I will take a look tomorrow and let you know if I find anything. I can feel the heat of those TV camera sunguns now...........
I'm definitely fairly certain that the alleged burial of a Hughes Spruce Goose buried completely assembled is somewhere behind my house. I will take a look tomorrow and let you know if I find anything. I can feel the heat of those TV camera sunguns now...........
I can top that! My grandmother is Amelia Earhart. She got fed up with the US Rat Race in 1937, dumped poor old Fred Noonan out the door over the Pacific and refueled in mid air from a secret British tanker flying over the Phoenix Islands. Not many people know this but she ended up living in a council house in Skegness where she met and lived in sin with my grandfather for 50 years under the name of Amelia Smith! The British Secret Service 'planted' her Electra on an island for the US to find but unfortunately they haven't managed to find it yet despite the fact the morse key is locked down and it's been transmitting for 70 odd years!
And it seems they've found another 80+ year old who 'remembers' preparing them for burial. I'm not being cynical (just a little) but these recovered memories are usually deeply suspect. There is also the fundamental 'Occams razor' kind of question as to why bury them in the first place? Most surplus aircraft of that vintage were broken up and melted down for the metal..no reason to throw them in a hole.
The main thing against it is man's inherent laziness. Digging holes to bury aircraft requires the removal of many cubic yards of spoil often by hand. I know from by bomb disposal days that people took the easy way out by finding nearby ponds, lakes caves or marl pits and quarries to 'lose' the unwanted!
The main thing against it is man's inherent laziness. Digging holes to bury aircraft requires the removal of many cubic yards of spoil often by hand. I know from by bomb disposal days that people took the easy way out by finding nearby ponds, lakes caves or marl pits and quarries to 'lose' the unwanted!
And in case it hasn't already been raised, once they dug the big holes to bury the big crates, what did they do with all the spoil?
Possibly put it in their pockets and scattered it down their trouser legs over the exercise yard!
There was a persistent rumour doing the rounds that the USAF did a major burial of their ground support gear and at least 1 maybe 2 unservicable F86's at the time they pulled out of RAF Manston. These would be under the 'reshaped' airfield on the north side. There was a heck of a lot of demolition / redevelopment etc done in the late '50s.
I don't know if anybody ever pursued this?
Given the history of the site from 1920 onwards there could be anything buired there from the SWO's old bike, Model T Fords from the driving school to broken up Bristol Britannias from the fire dump.
We're there meant to be several Avro Lancasters buried at RAF Hendon, the fuselages layed side by side with the cut off wings laid on top of them and then buried ?
Steve
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