webzine : Magazine 2A n°35 janvier 2013

Thx Laurent

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Bonjour,

Voici le magazine de notre association pour ce mois de janvier 2013.

Disponible en consultation directe sur notre site ou en version téléchargeable.

     

http://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?p=7689

Disponible également à l'envoi sous forme de fichier pdf  ( 1.84 Mo). Nous contacter.

               

Au sommaire :

                                          

L'infrastructure du mois                                                 

Le hangar Poulmic de la base aérienne de Châteaudun

Guilhem Labeeuw

L'aérodrome du mois                                                                

Histoire de l'aérodrome de Lahn Bihoué

Daniel Flahaut et Pierre Vilsalmon

Le musée du mois                                                                   

L'aérodrome de Nervesa Della Bataglia

Laurent Bailleul

Rapport d'activité   

Synthése décembre 2012 

                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Des terrains, des avions, des hommes                                      

Fernand Scrive

Jean-Luc Charles

Témoignage – Faits d'armes                                                     

12 juin 1942, l'audacieux survol de Paris

Pierre-Alain Antoine

Retour sur une visite                                                                 

Juvincourt, 14 janvier 2008

Laurent Bailleul

Et nos autres rubriques

Livres, liens sur le web, nos publications, adhésions récentes, agenda ...

Bonne lecture et Meilleurs voeux 2013 !

http://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?page_id=7631

Le comité de rédaction 2A

PS:  le magazine mensuel de l'association Anciens Aérodromes est diffusé chaque mois vers nos membres mais également vers les abonnés.Si vous ne souhaitez plus en être destinataire, merci de nous le préciser pour vous enlever de la liste de diffusion.

Collection Philippe Veys latest update

Collection Philippe Veys

In August 2011, the collection Philippe Veys was given to the Brussels Air Museum Funds to be preserved digitally and put at the disposal of the aviation researchers. 

 http://www.bamf.be/?Collection_Philippe_Veys

	Avions_Dewoitine_193x_, 22 p Coll_Veys.pdf	7 MB	Description of aircraft produced by Dewoitine, 1930's years, 22 pages, Coll P Veys	lnk
	Avro 652, Avro, 193_,  4 p, Coll P Veys.pdf	5 MB	Description of the Avro 652, date unknow, 4 pages, coll P. Veys, pdf compressed for the web	link
	Avro, Avro,193x, 15p Coll_Veys.pdf	11 MB	Avro 626, Avro 637, Avro Kadet, Avro Commodore, Avro C30, text description, date unknown, 15 pages, pdf format, reduiced for the web	link

[vintage-and-warbirds] Burma Spitfire search finds water-filled crate that may contain plane

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Burma Spitfire search finds water-filled crate that may contain plane

By Telegraph reporters

9:43AM GMT 09 Jan 2013

It was not immediately clear how much damage the water may have caused, and
searchers could not definitively say what was inside the crate.

But British aviation enthusiast David J. Cundall, who is driving the hunt
for the rare Spitfires, called the results "very encouraging".

"It will take some time to pump the water out...but I do expect all aircraft
to be in very good condition," Mr Cundall said from Rangoon, Burma's main
city.

The single-seater Spitfire, which helped Britain beat back waves of German
bombers during the war more than six decades ago, remains the most famous
British combat aircraft.

Britain built a total of about 20,000 Spitfires, although the dawn of the
jet age meant the propeller-driven planes quickly became obsolete.

As many as 140 Spitfires -- three to four times the number of airworthy
models known to exist -- are believed to have been buried in near-pristine
condition in Burma by American engineers as the war drew to a close.

The wooden crate located in northern Burma was found in Myitkyina in Kachin
state during a dig that began last month. It is one of several digs planned
nationwide, including another near the airport in Rangoon.

Mr Cundall said the search team in Kachin state inserted a camera into the
crate and found it was full of water. It was unclear what was inside the
crate, he said, but the water will be pumped out during an operation that
could take weeks, he said.

The go-ahead for excavation came in October when Burma's government signed
an agreement with Mr Cundall and his local partner.

Under the deal, Burma's government will get one plane for display at a
museum, as well as half of the remaining total. DJC, a private company
headed by Mr Cundall, will get 30 per cent of the total and the Burma
partner company Shwe Taung Paw, headed by Htoo Htoo Zaw, will get 20 per
cent.

During the project's first phase, searchers hope to recover 60 planes: 36
planes in Mingaladon, near Rangoon's international airport, six in Meikthila
in central Burma, and 18 in Myitkyina. Others are to be recovered in a
second phase.

Searchers hope the aircraft are in pristine condition, but others have said
it's possible all they might find is a mass of corroded metal and rusty
aircraft parts.

Mr Cundall said the practice of burying aircraft, tanks, and jeeps was
common after the war.

"Basically nobody had got any orders to take these airplanes back to [the]
U.K. They were just surplus...[and] one way of disposing them was to bury
them," Mr Cundall said. "The war was over, everybody wanted to go home,
nobody wanted anything, so you just buried it and went home. That was it."

Stanley Coombe, a 91-year-old war veteran from Britain who says he witnessed
the aircraft's burial, travelled to Burma to observe the search.

"[It is] very exciting for me because I never thought I would be allowed to
come back and see where Spitfires have been buried," Coombe said. "It's been
a long time since anybody believed what I said until David Cundall came
along."




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