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Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:13 amby Syncop8r
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Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:38 amby Ian Warren
This sounds familar
The planes were given to New Zealand on a lend-lease deal with the United States to provide support in the Pacific. At the end of the war they could not be sold, so the air force dismantled them for reuse or scrap.
Little like a few Skyhawks we all talk about .
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Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:00 pmby Bazza
Except we didn't pay anything for the WW2 stuff......
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Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:40 pmby deeknow
Great stuff. Good fun I bet. When I was a kid I had a mate who's Dad owned a warehouse in Rukuhia where a huge portion of the scavanged parts from those aircraft were stored while they were being sold off. We spent many an afternoon crawling around and playing with all manner of aircraft pieces, "borrowing" wires and switches for our model-railways etc, jeeze it was fun. I guess what they couldnt sell they dumped in that guy's gulley.
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Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:24 pmby ZK-MAT
I saw this on the news tonight. The kid plugging away with a spade. With 400 planes buried there, I'd get in a bobcat or three and get stuck in. I am suprised no-one else has got involved ... who's land is it? Can you see anything on Google Earth?
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Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:59 pmby Syncop8r
You would probably need a resource consent to dig below a certain depth too
Posted:
Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:13 amby Njbb1995
Do you think they could be made airworthy one day?
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Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:58 pmby Naki
You are not going to find 400 planes down there ..you may find one or two..most (other the odd Kittyhawk and Corsair which are mostly now flying) were melted down and MAYBE a few got buried in their entirity
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Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:43 pmby Njbb1995
One or two Would be fine