The team lead by David J. Cundall has found a wooden crate containing parts of a Spitfire in Myanmar, however the crate was filled with muddy water.
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Category: Heritage
U-2 flight manual declassified
The CIA has declassified the 1959 copy of the U-2 flight manual, Japlonik has kindly made available a copy on Scribd.
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Digging for buried Spitfires to start soon
A 21-member team, led by David Cundall, will start digging for buried Spitfire fighters near Yangon airport soon.
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Museum of Flight gets ScanEagle that played a part in resuce of Maersk Alabama
ScanEagle No. 678, one of several ScanEagles that provided real-time intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance imagery after Somali pirates assaulted the U.S. cargo ship Maersk Alabama, has been donated to Seattle’s Museum of Flight.
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Hurricane Mk. X11a in flyable condition up for sale
The Historic Aircraft Collection in Duxford has put up its Hurricane Mk. X11a for sale. This aircraft was built in 1942 and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force until 1947.
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