Showing posts with label Consolidated. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consolidated. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 April 2013

Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-50668 Coded 6X M-

Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-50668 Coded 6X M-, black hameldon


















A rare day out for me and Mick yesterday took us to the Liberator crash site on Black Hameldon near Hebden Bridge, where these undercarriage components have survived the looters (see the "more info" link for details).

Location: SD 91182 30039

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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN

Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN: Engine

We were shown where a number of previously buried components of this Liberator were concealed today by the people who had hidden them.

We'd never have found some of them without this help.

This cylinder barrel comes from one of the two engines which were relocated.

Location: SE 00838 01630

Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN

Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN: Engine

The second, more complete engine relocated today was reportedly rolled quite a way downhill by just one man.

Location: 365m from the main wreck site. Is this a record for single-handed engine-rolling?

Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Consolidated B-24 J Liberator 42-99991 "Bachelors Baby"

Consolidated B-24 J Liberator 42-99991: Memoria
Liberator-Batchelor's Baby: Moelfre
Originally uploaded by wreckhunter

The burn site with its two memorials resulting from the crash of "Bachelor's Baby", which was a brand new Liberator bomber before it met with Moelfre's slopes.

Though all but six (or four according to the link below) of the eleven crew died in the crash, one went on to resume his sports career in the US as the "singing fullback".

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Consolidated B-24 J Liberator 42-99991 "Bachelors Baby"

Consolidated B-24 J Liberator 42-99991: Memorial
Liberator-Batchelor's Baby: Moelfre
Originally uploaded by wreckhunter

Memorial to the five human crew killed in the 1942 crash of this American heavy bomber, and their dog "Booster", who was interred at the site.

The site is a full 82 m from the six decimal place coordinates given on the "GPS Walker" site. Perhaps that is why Alan Clark is happy to carry a link to that inaccurate and ill-maintained site and not to ours. No-one is going to find much from "GPS Walker"'s coordinates.

Since the site's title implies that GPS is being used for navigation and production of coordinates, we have no idea how the coordinates published on the website can be so far out.

We have had no success in contacting "GPS Walker", but if you are out there, your comments are invited. We link below our +/-3m accurate coordinates to the relevant page of "GPS Walker"'s site.

Location: SH 71564 74345

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Thursday, 24 January 2008

Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-52003


Mill Hill: Liberator
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2

What we think to be propeller "spiders" from the Liberator bomber crash site on Mill Hill. This site is a little more than two miles from the Grouse pub, not the one mile claimed elsewhere on the net (clearly by people with younger legs than ours).

Location:SK 05709 90677

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Tuesday, 10 April 2007

Consolidated Liberator B-24J 42-52003

We revisited this one to get accurate coordinates, and a photo in sunshine, instead of hammering rain. This is an easy one to get to, path all the way from the layby by the Grouse pub.
Consolidated Liberator B-24J 42-52003


Liberator Wreckage:

SK 05755 90614


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