How the worldwide population of airworthy Spitfires might be about to be doubled
A team led by Lincolnshire farmer David Cundall has strong grounds for believing that they are about to unearth dozens of Mark 14 Spitfires that were buried on the edge of a Burmese airport at the end of the Second World War. It’s a remarkable story which you can read here.
I have a lifelong interest in Second World War aviation, sparked initially by my father, who trained as a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force at the end of the war, and further encouraged by research I conducted for a biography of my wife’s father, who was the RAF’s greatest night intruder ace of the war.
I was intrigued to discover that there was an aircraft called “The Darlington Spitfire” and I researched its history for my essay here.