Slartibartfast Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15652440 In short a Browning machine mounted on a Spitfire was rebuilt after being crashed and then buried for 70 years... was then test fired to see if it would work... You want to guess the answer ?
Derk Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 Brilliant !! The quality and durability of those parts is amazing, especially if you take into account what the average calculated age of aircraft in wartime was (number of flying hours before being shot down or other kind of loss). A lot of excavations took place in Holland by a special unit of the KLu. A HUGE number of allied and axis planes crashed here during the war that came up when land was reclaimed in the former Zuiderzee area in the '70's and '80's. I went to a presentation by the commanding officer Col. de Jong, and he he came up with dozens of stunning cases of stuff still in perfect working order after so many years...... Houdoe Derk
+Stary Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 amazing this gun's still operational after so many years in bog
+Veltro2k Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 someone going to record that for the game ?
+JediMaster Posted November 10, 2011 Posted November 10, 2011 The part they failed to mention is when it fired, it shot down a Bf 109!
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