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Tuesday 12 May 2009

lincoln RF511

This small cairn built from some of the remains of avro lincoln RF511 holds a small plaque to the crew who were lost when the bomber hit high on cwm Llafar on the 15/03/50.
Part of what i think is a astro navigation unit seen the same on the anson VV955 on tal-y-fan.
One of 2 propeller bosses still on the mountain
One very heavy duty hydraulic ram .
Part of one wing most of the wreckage is in the stream bed and as you can see some of it is very large the impact site has lost of parts strewn about including on of the bomb bay door rams .
ref top of wreck site .
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1 comment:

Sean said...

Another two plaques we didn't get there. Mind you, we did get the shiniest one, here: http://peakwreckhunters.blogspot.com/2008/04/avro-lincoln-rf511.html

Seán
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