Spitfires Buried in Burma

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21074699

BBC News [UK]

18 January 2013

Archaeologists believe no Spitfires buried in Burma

Archaeologists hunting for World War II Spitfires in Burma believe there are no planes buried at the sites where they have been digging, the BBC understands.

The archaeologists have concluded that evidence does not support the original claim that as many as 124 Spitfires were buried at the end of the war, the BBC's Fergal Keane reports.

Wargaming.net, the firm financing the dig, has also said there are no planes.

But project leader David Cundall says they are looking in the wrong place.

He told the BBC that he feels very frustrated but is determined to keep up his campaign, and remains convinced Spitfires are buried in Burma. [...]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20515659

BBC News | 22 November 2012

Search for missing Spitfires in Burma due to begin

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-20910980

BBC News | 4 January 2013

WWII Spitfires digging team leaves for Burma

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20957162

BBC News | 9 January 2013

Burma Spitfire hunters discover crate

 

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/21/169621797/in-myanmar-a-hunt-for-fabled-cache-of-buried-wwii-spitfires

National Public Radio

21 January 2013

In Myanmar,A Hunt For Fabled Cache Of Buried WWII Spitfires

by Anthony Kuhn

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/9813074/Spitfire-hunter-pledges-the-search-will-go-on.html

The Daily Telegraph [UK]

20 January 2013

Spitfire hunter pledges the search will go on

By Adam Lusher

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10177803.Buried_Spitfires_is_a_tall_story__says_RAF_veteran/

The Northern Echo [UK]

22 January 2013

Buried Spitfires is a tall story, says RAF veteran

By Gavin Engelbrecht

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/aviation/9806536/Burmas-buried-Spitfires-the-inside-story-of-one-mans-obsession.html

The Daily Telegraph [UK]

23 January 2013

Burma's buried Spitfires: the inside story of one man's obsession

By Adam Lusher

"No one can predict a flying cow"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/magazine/16Drilling-t.html

New York Times Magazine
16 January 2011

The Will to Drill

By BENJAMIN WALLACE-WELLS

[...] There is an element of uncertainty in every complicated engineering endeavor. “In July 2003, in the Pacific, a Japanese fishing boat was sunk by a flying cow,” Robert Bea told me. Bea is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading scholar of risk; he also spent many years working in research and management at Shell. The cow, it turned out, was part of an illegal cattle shipment bound from Anchorage to Russia; as the plane approached its destination the smugglers became nervous about their cargo and began shoving it out of the plane. “No risk analysis can ever be complete. No one can predict a flying cow.” [...]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/pageoneplus/corrections.html

New York Times
5 February 2011

Corrections

An article on Jan. 16 about drilling for oil off the coast of Angola erroneously reported a story about cows falling from planes, as an example of risks in any engineering endeavor. No cows, smuggled or otherwise, ever fell from a plane into a Japanese fishing rig. The story is an urban legend, and versions of it have been reported in Scotland, Germany, Russia and other locations.

Spitfires Buried in Queensland

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/aviation/fact-or-fable-hunt-is-on-for-buried-spitfires/story-e6frg95x-1225995654752

The Australian
28 January 2011

Fact or fable: hunt is on for buried Spitfires

Ted Strugnell

IT'S the Lasseter's Reef of warbirds -- a rumoured stash of mint-condition Spitfires hidden underground in rural Queensland.

Many have searched for the legendary British fighters, reportedly still in their crates and hidden since the end of the World War II around the Queensland town of Oakey, but so far nobody has been able to lay claim to what would be a multi-million-dollar find. [...]