[Smokin' Joe]

Wow. According to the article, there are only some 35 of these planes flying today. What a find! Glad they are going home.

[Autonomous User]

Very cool!

[cunning_fish]

Tulsa’s burried Belvedere comes to mind.

[satan69]

‘Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few’,

[tomkat]

test .. disregard

[MARTIAL MONK]

While it doesn't have near the historical significance, there are hundreds of vintage cars buried alongside railroad tracks all over the west. Years ago much of the system was single track and when they had a derailment they could not afford to keep the line down any longer than absolutely necessary. They would scoop out a trench and push everything into it and cover it. Everything was written off as an insurance loss.

Old timers have told me that they buried dozens of new cars, most demolished but some with minor or no damage, after a derailment. I wonder how well they have survived cocooned inside the car carriers.

[Sparky1776]

http://youtu.be/FNB8VbFmlOY

[yank in the UK]

I’ve had the privilege of seeing these in flight at the Sunderland airshow. They also brought out one of the last Lancaster Bombers five years ago. 2 years ago they flew the Vulcan Bomber, that was an amazing aircraft to witness, and I’m fairly certain that there aren’t but 2 or 3 of those left in existence.

[Chode]

brandy new and buried still in their shipping crates

[Moltke]

There goes the Burmese Air Force!

[GreenLanternCorps]

Now if they can just find a B-29 and not catch it on fire...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kee_Bird

A lesson in how NOT to recover an old warbird...

[WonkyTonky]

What a terrific story, I am glad they found them and they are being returned to the UK.