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amazing pics...
Posted by Elliott on Tue Feb 11, 2003 05:29:44 AM
In reply top Spitfire dug up from Riverbed in Punjab posted by Jagan on Mon Feb 10, 2003 04:49:54 AM
it's amazing that the aircraft has been down there all that time and not carted off to a scrap merchant after it crashed. It's amazing the lengths people go to to scrap old planes..... :(
I might be out in india for a bit this summer - I wonder if i can get along to see it...
: News reports have come about a Spitfire surfacing from a r
: iver bed.
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: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=43097
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: Unfortunately it had to be carried up in pieces
: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=43233
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: But this report suggests that the aircraft is on its way t
: o being restored.
: http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=43296
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: A photo of the bird is here
: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/02082215.htm
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: So we will see one more addition to the Spitfire populatio
: n of the world (I hope!)
: