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Nice lead Paul............

Posted by Tony on Sat Dec 29, 2001 02:14:28 PM

In reply top Pprune posted by Paul Stewart on Sat Dec 29, 2001 12:48:23 PM

I look forward to disrupt.....errrr contributing on the current military stuff, however this excerot from a thread was interesting..

....Well some of these stories are very true.....
About 10 years ago, I was told a story about aircraft, Fairey Barracudas, being 'buried' at a local airfield, so one day, with my best friend in tow, we headed to the airfield with a metal detector.

After about 5 minutes of searching, we literally fell over some rusty old 'farm equipment'. Being inquistive, on closer examination I found what looked to be a fuel filler cap. Then we found bits of metal with round holes in it, which turned out to be part of an aileron.

We took some photos and sent a letter to the MOD asking permission to remove parts etc. The MOD passed the letter onto the Fleet Air

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