{"id":10148,"date":"2012-12-02T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2012-12-02T13:43:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T12:43:15","slug":"how-the-worldwide-population-of-airworthy-spitfires-might-be-about-to-be-doubled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10148","title":{"rendered":"How the worldwide population of airworthy Spitfires might be about to be doubled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s a remarkable story which you can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/nov\/28\/britons-quest-missing-spitfires-burma?INTCMP=SRCH\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s father, who was the RAF&#8217;s greatest night intruder ace of the war.<\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued to discover that there was an aircraft called <em>&#8220;The Darlington Spitfire&#8221;<\/em> and I researched its history for my essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Spitfire.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s a remarkable story which you can read here. I have a lifelong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}