Cold and Wet
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
Oxford Wreckage on Brown Knoll: SK 08188 85198
A cold and damp day...
Thursday 30 August 2007
Republic P-47C Thunderbolt 41-6227
Thunderbolt Wreck
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
Thunderbolt wreck on Horsehill Tor: SK 09347 84336
Friday 17 August 2007
De Havilland Tiger Moth T6464
Scraps of Tiger Moth above Chew Brook
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
Not much left, and well hidden in the margin of a bog puddle (not a watercourse as some others' photos might suggest). Some sources give this as T6164, not 6464.
Location SE 03351 01588.
De Havilland Chipmunk WB579
Chipmunk Wreck above Chew
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
Not the most spectacular wreck site, as it was mostly cleared, but we missed it before, so we tacked it on.
The heather was flowering all over the moors on the day.
Location:SK 02737 99875
Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN
Liberator Wreck above Chew
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
The first photo of this undercarriage since 2000, when a gamekeeper asked crash site enthusiasts to bury all the big bits of what had been a major wreck site. This undercarriage is at SE 00872 01595.
There are scraps all around, and a number of collections of bigger scraps within the wreckage field, which extends for maybe 100m or so around the given location.
We put up a small cairn next to the location given to make it easy to find.
Douglas Dakota G-AHCY BEA
DC3 Wreck above Chew
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
The elusive DC3 wreck finally located at SE 01493 02680. Contrary to pretty much all published photos elsewhere, the strut isn't standing up, which makes it much harder to find than you would imagine.
This photo, and all photos on the blog from now on are available at the flickr site at full camera resolution.
More info on the Dakota is here
Tuesday 14 August 2007
Further Info on Wrecks
You may want to know more about the wrecks we have visited. We could reproduce others' research, but it would be just as well to go to the source:
The link from the title above is probably the best internet site for information on the planes that crashed in the peak. No information on crash or wreckage location is given, but if you wanted to know more about the planes and their pilots, this one's the daddy, at least as far as the Peak District is concerned. Its author is another matter altogether. We had to ban him from commenting on the blog, but if you read some of his comments on here, you'll see what sort of person he is.
We use Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks and High Ground Wrecks for general location and biographical info, and the sites given here (with caution) for more up to date photos and info on the wreck sites.
Ralph the dog favours Peakland Air Crashes, which we understand has GPS based five decimal place coordinates, and more up to date info, though we have never seen a copy.
The link from the title above is probably the best internet site for information on the planes that crashed in the peak. No information on crash or wreckage location is given, but if you wanted to know more about the planes and their pilots, this one's the daddy, at least as far as the Peak District is concerned. Its author is another matter altogether. We had to ban him from commenting on the blog, but if you read some of his comments on here, you'll see what sort of person he is.
We use Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks and High Ground Wrecks for general location and biographical info, and the sites given here (with caution) for more up to date photos and info on the wreck sites.
Ralph the dog favours Peakland Air Crashes, which we understand has GPS based five decimal place coordinates, and more up to date info, though we have never seen a copy.
Friday 10 August 2007
Armstrong Vickers Wellington W5719
46 Kinder Five 006
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
This RAF Wellington wreckage is at SK 11062 87549
North American Harvard FT415
Harvard Wreck on Kinder
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
This Harvard wreckage was at SK 08898 86832, very close to the Anson
Avro Anson Mk.XI NL185
46 Kinder Five 028
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
A successful outing to Kinder yesterday, this Anson wreckage at SK 08904 86699 was one of four wreck sites located.
Saturday 4 August 2007
Consolidated Liberator B-24J 42-52003-Main Site
Liberator Wreck
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
This wheel is at the main Liberator crash site on Mill Hill near the Pennine Way, very close to the secondary site we have been to many times before (see 10th April post for secondary site).
Location: SK 05851 90643
DeHavilland Mosquito Mk.XVI PF395 coded 8K-K
Mosquito
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
These few shards are all that is left of the Mosquito above Dovestones reservoir at SE 02568 03186.
We had passed within ten feet of this before and not found it.
New bit of Mosquito
New bit of Mosquito
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
We found this bit of cast aluminium engine block in the rocks well above the mosquito wreckage pile.
Westland Lysander Mk.IIIA V9403
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