Carnedd Daffydd Air Crash Sites: Mystery Bit

I had a stroll up Carnedd Daffydd last weekend, to have a look for the missing Cessna engine block amongst other things. 

No luck with the Cessna, but came across this bit a long way from any sites I have been to before. Despite the report from a dog walker that he had seen the engine block at a new site, I'm wondering if that Cessna engine block is decorating some magpie's garage. We had a good look all round where it used to be, and on the obvious lines someone might have rolled /dragged it down. 

Anyway, the bit pictured looks like a bit of armour plate shaped to fit the back of a seat, (head end down in the pic) with some skinning attached. Nothing else around it, and I haven't seen it reported elsewhere. 

Location: SH 66939 62844

 

Airspeed Oxford Mk.I LX518

Went out with Mat ZX on Friday for three sites he hadn't been to before on the back end of Bleaklow, including  LX518. 

There are so many well worn tracks all over the hills nowadays. Both this site and the Consul are pretty much right on well-eroded routes now. They were quite hard to find when we located them. It's hard to miss them now!

I was however surprised to come across this burn site a short distance from the more extensive remains in a grough I'd previously marked as the site.

Location: SK18023 96710

Google Earth .kmz file: Aztrecks version

I had a query about the kmz file I created for all of the Peak District wreck sites, which used to be available from a link for a previous post. I have found a version of the file-if you want it, try this link, or email me at peakwreckhunter@googlemail.com. I can however see some of the locations shown in this file are incorrect, so I think it's actually one I got from the now-defunct Aztrecks site. I'll produce an updated version after I next meet up with Pat (who I gave a copy of my version to) 

Lancaster PA411 RAF; Lightning P38J 42-67207 Revisit 2

 

Side note on the weekend's revisit of Tintwistle Knarr crash sites: some of them seem to have been "decorated" with assorted irrelevant crap, as you can see in the pics. This is something I'm seeing increasingly frequently. 

At least one of the painted rocks appears to be to do with some kind of army veteran's mental health charity. Maybe they all are, but I'm still not really seeing the relevance to an air force war grave. Ditto the Ukrainian flag at the Lightning site. The pilot and aircraft were American, not Ukrainian.

Incidentally, I noted a small secondary wreckage pile at the Lancaster site: 

Location: SK 03494 99223

Hawker Hurricanes PZ851,PZ765 and PZ854; Lancaster PA411 RAF; Lightning P38J 42-67207 Revisit

I went out to visit the sites on Tintwistle Knarr a couple of times over the weekend to investigate reports of a new bit at the Hurricanes site. There was indeed a new bit, as pictured above. 

It's most plausible that it's from the Hurricanes, though it might be from the nearby Lancaster. Ian DB's pics should however show how it differs from its counterparts at the Lancaster.

Hard to see how I might have missed this on every previous visit. I must have more or less stood on it on every occasion. However, the site is burned right through the peat, I have never seen it so bare. Maybe it's been there all along.  

Location: SK 03527 98907