While we were in the area we went over to the nearby Hawker Hunter crash site at Gelmast , where only small fragments like these remain.
Location: SN 77568 75749
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Friday, 29 April 2011
Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 43-38944
B17 Memorial
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig
Memorial to the B17 wreck at SJ 99442 67762.
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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.
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
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.
Thursday, 7 June 2007
North American F86 Sabre Mk.2 19234,Consolidated B-24H Liberator 42-94841
Successful outing on Holme Moss with Ralph (the dog) today. Located the RCAF Sabre and USAAF Liberator, but missed the Swordfish again. We'll get it next time!
Liberator wreck was at:
SE 10632 03385
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Sabre at:
SE 09101 05072
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More pics from our wreckhunting outings are posted here.
Liberator wreck was at:
SE 10632 03385
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Sabre at:
SE 09101 05072
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More pics from our wreckhunting outings are posted here.
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Saturday, 26 May 2007
Blackburn Botha W5103; Avro Lancaster PA474
Had an interesting trip yesterday. Found the remains of a RAF Botha at:
SK 11077 97532.
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Whilst searching for a Wellington a little way away, we had several flybys by a Lancaster, got a few pics:
Also a video. As we understand there are only two left airworthy, this isn't something that happens every day! PA474, the Battle of Britain Flight flying Lanc was supposed to be at Headingley on the 25th, but the other one (FM213 )is owned by the Canadian Air Force.
Maybe it was something to do with this years' remake of "The Dambusters".
SK 11077 97532.
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Whilst searching for a Wellington a little way away, we had several flybys by a Lancaster, got a few pics:
Also a video. As we understand there are only two left airworthy, this isn't something that happens every day! PA474, the Battle of Britain Flight flying Lanc was supposed to be at Headingley on the 25th, but the other one (FM213 )is owned by the Canadian Air Force.
Maybe it was something to do with this years' remake of "The Dambusters".
Friday, 18 May 2007
Hawker Hurricanes PZ851,PZ765 and PZ854 ;Lancaster PA411 RAF;Lightning P38J 42-67207
Saturday, 12 May 2007
Avro Anson N9853
We went to look above Edale at a number of wreck sites this week. The only wreck we found was this Anson at:
SK 10114 87860.
A hard one to find, in one of the many groughs in the area. The cross does not project above the grough, as the photo might suggest.
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SK 10114 87860.
A hard one to find, in one of the many groughs in the area. The cross does not project above the grough, as the photo might suggest.
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Wednesday, 2 May 2007
Boeing RB-29A (F-13A) Superfortress 44-61999
Went back to the Superfortress at Shelf Stones yesterday, for the sake of completeness. The moors were officially closed due to extreme fire risk, but neither of us were smokers, and it seemed everyone else was ignoring the advice too...
The memorial at the top right of this pic (behind the radial engine) is at:
Location: SK 09042 94892.
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The memorial at the top right of this pic (behind the radial engine) is at:
Location: SK 09042 94892.
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Friday, 27 April 2007
Short Stirling LJ628
We visited this RAF Stirling crash site on 26th April 2007. We found a group of good sized pieces of wreckage in a clough around 1/3 of a mile away from the main group of wreckage, and well away from any coordinates published elsewhere.
This wreckage is at:
SK 20721 95701.
The former main group of wreckage was cleared, by the Stirling Project. There are however many fragments and small groups of wreckage left over near the commonly published coordinates, in particular on a line between SK 20336 95659 and
SK 20218 95590, where you can see this pile of wreckage.
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This wreckage is at:
SK 20721 95701.
The former main group of wreckage was cleared, by the Stirling Project. There are however many fragments and small groups of wreckage left over near the commonly published coordinates, in particular on a line between SK 20336 95659 and
SK 20218 95590, where you can see this pile of wreckage.
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Saturday, 14 April 2007
Gloster Meteors WA971 and VZ518
Meteor wreckage around informal memorial cross at:
SE 06872 02901
We visited this site on 12th April 2007, 57 years to the day after a mid-air collision between two RAF Meteors. There are huge chunks of wreckage easily visible all around these coordinates, which refer to the location of the informal memorial cross from which this picture was taken.
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