A year after the high hopes of aviation buffs that there were as many as 140 WWII Spitfires buried under farmland in Burma, the scheme to locate and excavate them has come to nothing. Now the driving force behind the project, Spitfire hunter David Cundall, will return to Burma to start a new dig for a lost squadron of buried Castle Bromwich-built Spitfires early next year. The news comes a week after the aviation enthusiast revealed he had unearthed fresh evidence suggesting he had found the exact location of the buried planes. Many are treating the story of the buried planes as a kind of charming but baseless legend. Birmingham Mail
