Spitfire redux: The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat
10 November 2011, 11:14 AM
#1
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Disco, Disco!
Posts: 21,825
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Spitfire redux: The WWII guns firing after 70 years buried in peat
10 November 2011, 11:52 AM
#3
Scooby Regular
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Disco, Disco!
Posts: 21,825
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
that would be good, i am guessing it belly landed as the engine would have been the first to go and bent to hell - although it did land in a peat bog. Saying that hitting a peat bog at 300mph would be like hitting concrete.
Nice one for sharing that mate!
10 November 2011, 02:18 PM
#6
Scooby Regular
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 39,877
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Wonderful story. Congrats to them for digging it out.
I have heard that peat is a good preservative if the air is sealed out.
I imagine it must have been badly damaged, but what a story if it could be fully restored.
Les
I have heard that peat is a good preservative if the air is sealed out.
I imagine it must have been badly damaged, but what a story if it could be fully restored.
Les
Trending Topics
10 November 2011, 09:40 PM
#8
Loads of bombers crashed in the mountains up here in ww2 - i hunt them out in the summer and lots still about if you know where to look - one was only found in 2005 crew was thought to have been lost in the north sea - i found heaps of live .303s last year stamped 1942
Iain.
Iain.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post