Neil
05-Jan-2013, 10:26 AM
A team of aircraft enthusiasts is heading to Burma for the final stage of a 17-year search to locate a hoard of Spitfire planes.
The group of 21, led by North Lincolnshire farmer David Cundall, will fly from Heathrow to begin digging at Yangon International Airport.
Mr Cundall, who first heard stories of the buried planes in 1996, said: "We think we have found them."
He hopes to restore any planes found to flying condition, in the UK.
Mr Cundall believes a large number of brand new Mark XIV Spitfires were buried in wooden crates on the orders of Lord Mountbatten during August and December 1945 as "surplus to requirements" at the end of World War II.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-20910980
The group of 21, led by North Lincolnshire farmer David Cundall, will fly from Heathrow to begin digging at Yangon International Airport.
Mr Cundall, who first heard stories of the buried planes in 1996, said: "We think we have found them."
He hopes to restore any planes found to flying condition, in the UK.
Mr Cundall believes a large number of brand new Mark XIV Spitfires were buried in wooden crates on the orders of Lord Mountbatten during August and December 1945 as "surplus to requirements" at the end of World War II.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-20910980