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Thread: Buried WWII-Era Spitfire Planes to Be Uncovered

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    Default Buried WWII-Era Spitfire Planes to Be Uncovered

    This was sent by Garyde

    Pretty Neat


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    I thought this was such an amazing find. If these planes are recovered and able to be assemmbled, what do you think there worth would be? Very Rare with Rolls Royce engines.
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    Wow, I'll take two,they would fit nicely in my hangar after I kick out the Cessna.

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    As an ophthalmologist, I thought I would pass along some trivia about the spitfire airplane. Since I've spent my whole career removing cataracts and replacing them with artificial lens implants, we ophthalmologists have a special connection to this British WWII fighter plane. Their canopies are made of acrylic plastic and numerous British pilots who were shot down in this air craft suffered intraocular foreign bodies from the acrylic fragments. A Royal Air Force ophthalmologist ,named Harold Ridley ,discovered that the eyes of these pilots tolerated these foreign bodies quite well. He then reasoned that acrylic plastic would be a good material for an artificial lens to replace the human cataract lens. He put the first artificial lens in a British patient in 1949. Obviously the lens design was modified and markedly improved over the years but a form of the original acrylic material is still used today.

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    Hi Bob,

    Thanks for sharing that !
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