Fieseler Fi-103 (V1)?, Airspeed Oxford Mk.I LX518 and Airspeed Consul TF-RPM above Langsett Reservoir

Great outing today with young Matt: Found the "V1 crater" at:SK 18575 96507.
There was no crater left, it was all filled in.







We found some shrapnel up to 500mm long, though. It was much thicker stuff than the usual aircraft aluminium.









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Found the Oxford at:
SK 18040 96743.


















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The Consul was at:
SK 17402 96607.
















It looked like someone had been excavating the wreckage.







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Lockheed Lightning P38J 42-67207

B-team outing: Sean and Barry found the P38 Lightning on Tintwistle Knarr:

SK 03929 99086.



























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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".

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

The memorial to the Hurricanes, Lancaster and Lightning lost on Tintwistle Knarr is at:

SK 03644 98649.











Scraps of Hurricane wreckage can be seen at:

SK 03564 98897

below a small cairn.











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Lancaster wreckage can be seen at:


SK 03566 99255.













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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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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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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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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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Avro Lancaster KB993

This is very close to the Dakota, it may have been hard to tell where one wreckage field ended, and the other began.

Memorial local to Lancaster wreckage

SK 07931 94775






Below is what we assume is left of the Lanc, ten feet from the memorial. The Dakota wreckage field is however very close, and it has been suggested that this is part of the Dakota. We are looking into this, and also into which of the other wreckage we logged and photographed in the area is from the Lancaster if this isn't. We checked, and this is indeed the Lanc.












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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.



Liberator Wreckage:

SK 05755 90614


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