Hope Fades in Burma Search for Buried Spitfires

One of the decade’s most fanciful searches – of a buried trove of World War II British Spitfire aircraft thought to be buried in Burma – looks likely to come to an unsuccessful end in October, with monsoon rains hampering excavation efforts as the two-year search contract’s expiration nears.

For years, rumors have persisted that scores of unassembled pla…