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Union back in 19111. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has the story. in a forest south of kyiv, down in an old riverbed, something unexpected. the remains of old aircraft hidden deep in the ground. and each one british to their rusty core. here you see the tail plane of a hurricane mark 2. yes, you heard that right. this was once part of a hurricane fighter plane, one of thousands britain gave the soviet union during world war ii. this is a little slice of history. evidence of a mome...

James landale, has the story. in a forest south of kyiv, down in an old riverbed, something unexpected. the remains of old aircraft hidden deep in the ground. and each one british to their rusty core. here you see the tail plane of a hurricane mark 2. yes, you heard that right. this was once part of a hurricane fighter plane, one of thousands britain gave the soviet union during world war ii. this is a little slice of history. evidence of a moment when, 80 years ago, western powers gave warplane...

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Debris from eight british hurricane fighter planes, dating back to world war two, has been found buried in a forest in ukraine. the aircraft were originally sent by britain, after nazi germany invaded the former soviet union in i9ai. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has the story. in a forest south of kyiv, down in an old riverbed, something unexpected. the remains of old aircraft hidden deep in the ground. and each one british to their rusty core. here you see the tail plane of hurr...

It was being tortured and neglected, at a buddhist temple in southern sri lanka. the four—tonne elephant was flown out of colombo airport on a specially chartered cargo plane, accompanied by handlers and vets. the remains of eight british hurricane fighter planes have been found buried in a forest in ukraine. theyre from the time of world war two. the aircraft were sent to the soviet union by britain after nazi germany invaded the country in1941. heres our diplomatic correspondent, james landa...

Assembly in central russia. hes joined the ultra—nationalist liberal democratic party, which has loudly supported the war in ukraine. viktor boot was exchanged in december for the american viktor bout was exchanged in december for the american basketball star brittney griner. debris from eight british hurricane fighter planes, dating back to world war two, has been found buried, in a forest in ukraine. the aircraft were originally sent by britain, after nazi germany invaded the former soviet u...

And she had to get any part of the aircraft as fast as she could onto that line, and keep it there. whereas i had two aircraft to align, one right way up, one wrong way up. and as soon as you got them level, whatever part you was on, whether it was tailfin, tail plane... nose, whatever. you had to work fast, and then you called to the number one, "on target", and she would read out the figures. so i was doing height, the other girl was doing range. she was calling out figures.

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Accelerating at 280 miles an hour and if that nose goes full forward i dont care if youre at 3,000, 5,000, 10,000, you dont have -- if this tail plane, this horizontal stabilizer is whats driving that nose forward and if it gets to a limit that its impossible, pilots cant pull it out. >> bill: if youre a pilot facing the scenario youre describing is the software telling the pilot something they have not seen before and they dont know how to react or is it a question of time in saving the flight?...

>> what could have happened, you dont need to blow the aircraft out of the sky. for it to fall out of the sky. this missile only had to hit the aircraft. >> as peter -- >> a wing, a tail plane. >> as peter gould said, when an aircraft is hit like this, it in his words unzips and falls apart. >> all the fasteners around it start to fall apart. so its essentially the plane could have come out of the air in one piece. but extremely distressed. because obviously it has been hit by a missile. and wha...