This jet engine on Ashop Moor has been dropped onto its side by someone since our last visit. Or maybe it's the elusive second engine? We are investigating. See 24th Jan 2008 post for results of the investigation.
Location: SK 07348 90256
A detail from a collection on Ashop Moor with many electrical components at SK 07327 90072
Other than scraps, this was the only collection of fragments we found on the descent to Ashop Moor.
Location: SK 07015 89912
The vicinity of the impact site at : SK 06925 89678
RAF Roundel on this wing fragment from a collection at SK 06977 89721
Still on top of Kinder Scout, this was at SK 06959 89767
We went up on top of Kinder Scout, and then down onto Ashop Moor today to find the impact site and other bits from this mid-air collision of two Sabre jet fighters which we missed on our previous visit.
This collection of bits was the first we found on Kinder Scout at: SK 07012 89795
The highest fragment found on the slope below the impact point was this part-buried bit at SK 08111 94719. Above this, only the impact site(or sites if you prefer), shown in this previous post as "Dakota Wing".
Another undercarriage member was at SK 08140 94628.
Yes, I know I previously said SK 08144 94596. What do you think this is, NASA? Take an average if you are going to be picky.
Fragments at SK 08085 94459.
There are reports of a reduction gear near this location, but we would not describe this in that way.
The Twin Wasp engine at SK 08052 94333.
Peak District Air Crashes says there is a second one of these just below the fuselage, but we did not see it, and they are hard to miss. Alan Clark from the site comments as follows:" I see the other engine hasn't re-appeared at the C-47, it vanished in the flash flooding in 2002 (when Glossop was drowned), the engine that is now out in the gully was previously buried and quite a bit higher up before the flooding."
These were the lowest fragments we found, each maybe a metre long, at SK 08054 94272
We also verified that we had correct location and identification for wreckage local to Memorial to the Lancaster on James Thorn.
This wreckage pile gets moved about a lot, it looks different and usually smaller each time it is photographed..
Location: SK 07921 94775
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Location:SK 12807 87554
We missed this engine at the last visit. Mick was trying out some arty settings on his camera..
Location: SK 08874 86578
Wreckage at the site of the crash of this Oxford. Mostly plywood, which is unusual in our limited experience, but it was apparently quite a major component of the Oxford. Presumably preserved in this case by the humic acids of the peaty water. Last of the day today.
Location:SK 02555 71720
Another contentious site, these flakes of paint or dope come from the wreck of either a DH-60 or DH10 on Burbage Edge near Buxton. No trace of digging (as previously reported at the site) was seen.
Location:SK 02358 71584
This memorial is at SK 41952 40412, in St Andrew's Churchyard, Stanley, near Derby. The debris field was however widespread, and therefore less well defined.
Quarry Farm could be a number of local places..
The congealed remains of DeHavilland Vampire F.B.Mk.5 WA400 on Strines Moor. Last of the day.
Location: SK 21842 89802
Impact crater and wreckage at the site of the 1993 crash of an ex-RAF Hunter on its way to an airshow.
This one is at SK 20855 94342 on Broomhead Moor.
First of the day last Thursday was this Wellington Mk.IC which crashed on Broomhead Moor. This wreckage pile consolidates the two which previously existed.
Location:SK 23481 95417
