Went out in the snow with Matt ZX a little while back to show him a few sites on Kinder Scout he hadn't been to. The engine from Avro Anson Mk. XI NL185 appears to be missing. When I went out with Pat and MT Skull a while back, we didn't find it, but I had thought that was because we were a little rushed. Me and Matt however had a good hard look, and there is no sign of it. Someone went to some trouble here. But why?
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
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
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)
.jpg "Lightning Crash Site Tintwistle")
.jpg "Lancaster Crash Site Tintwistle")
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
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
I've been up to Sliddens Moss twice in recent weeks with Pat, and Matt. Last week's outing turned up this engine, which I hadn't seen on previous outings.
Location: TBA
Had a day out in Wales with Matt ZX last Friday. Weather report was filthy, but as it turned out, overly pessimistic. Weather was pretty much standard autumn mountain weather.
After visiting the mixed Anson and Ventura wreckage over the other side of Fynnon Lloer, we went up the stream to see the usually impossible to miss Cessna engine. No sign of it.
The one other walker we met all day on top said he'd seen it about a year ago. Got out my old high-accuracy coordinates. My sticks are very close to where it used to be. Definitely no sign of it.
It's probably in some saddo's garage then, though there's a small chance it has merely been moved, as comments on previous posts suggest it has been before.
A day out in Bowland with IanDB in low cloud yesterday yielded this Burn Fell B-24 site I've missed in the past.
Location: SD 67123 53127
A quick outing with Matt ZX in nice walking weather to various hills outside Llangollen yielded 3/3 target sites in fairly short order. First of the day was the Oxford site on Moel y Gamelin.
Fragments of wreckage are scattered throughout the scree. The pic is a closeup of a bit with inspection stamp and markings which I'd like to say prove it's an Airspeed Oxford, but it looked slightly questionable at first. A part number starting with 10 is good, but the inspection stamp should ideally be AS for Airspeed. Mat however tells me that the RECL stamp is from Royston Engineering, who made spares for a number of manufacturers including Airspeed and DeHaviland.
Location: SJ 17470 46623
