News like this ALWAYS is a pleasure to read:
Sweet baby Jesus! What an amazing find. Hopefully they’ll restore all of them. That would be amazing to see a squadron of Spitties flying together.
That is a great story. Nice to hear some good news every once in awhile. I’m a big aviation & WW2 buff and will be looking forward to what happens with this. Thanks for the heads up!
-Jax
Indeed… The iconic image of WWII aviation… Ron
Man, what a find!
Saw this story yesterday, how VERY cool. From what I read they shouldn’t need much restoration to be air worthy. Won’t that be sight!
Buried in Burma and still perfectly preserved?
Wow…somebody did their job right.
Always one of my favorites right up there with the Corsair.
Now if someone could find some P-38 Lightnings or P-61 Black Widows it would be cake. Those two are my favorite WWII aircraft and I would really love to see some flying samples before I die.
If they were still in the ocean going shipping condition they may have survived mostly intact. It’s hard to say. They didn’t have weapons installed, so that’s a nada. If they were operational and just buried by ground crew before bug out, there won’t be anything left but a stain. JMO… Ron
I was privileged to see the Glacier Girl frequently during her restoration and to see her do a fly-by… I’ve seen and fondled a bunch of warbirds, but no P-61’s or ME-262’s. I’m not holding out any hope either… Ron
and sound! How can you top the aural sweetness of a 2050 horsepower 60 degree fuel injected V12? (If you could arm the Castrol GTX funny car with 8 Browning M3’s we might have a race)
The P-61 is just one evil looking bird.
-Jax
Cumberland Gap state park has always been a favorite and when they completed the new tunnel I started going more often. The Glacier Girl’s hanger is just a 1/2 mile into Kentucky, so I’d go over to check her progress. She was squashed flat, very flat… like a pancake. It’s amazing they were able to restore her. Drawings for some parts didn’t even exist and they had to go by old photos… Making the engineering drawings from scratch and then cutting the parts. Ron
Awesome, I hope they build them all up!
I have heard stories of Patton and some other Allied commanders that buried (weather proof of course) Harley’s, Shermans, halftracks, etc. in CA and the UK just in case the war was lost and a resistance emerged.
I hope they film a documentary about it!
that’s awesome. i’m looking forward to photos when they exhume them.
when i was growing up in england, the spitfire was naturally my fave WWII plane, as there was usually one at the airshows my dad took me to. the spitfire was hard to beat, when it came to elegance in a fighter (IMHO).
Amazing. I only hope they aren’t just heaps of rusty scrap metal.
“as many as 20 World War II-era Spitfire planes are perfectly preserved.”
Awesome news.