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Thursday, 24 July 2008

anson vv955 foel lwyd

Anson vv955 crashed on the 20/05/59 during a divert to valley the plane hit the ridge on the right side of the wall and came to rest at the top of the ridge in this picture, the wreckage in the next photo is about in the middle of this picture at the bottom of the slope
This is all i found on this visit there was / is somewhere near a hollow where the bulk of the wreckage was burnt but i didn't find it or any other signs of remains

ref 115/722722
best use the ref on the peak wreckhunter blog , the stone cairn shownon their site is about 100 mtrs away to the left on the top of the ridge in the top photo

oxford n4568

The pictures here are taken around area that oxford n4568 crashed in the sychnant pass on the 03/08/41 the given grid position puts it just lower than the top picture !
Didn't find anything this time as the ground cover is very bloody spikey and dense try again winter!
ref 115/757769

Sunday, 20 July 2008

love google earth

Found this site on dolwen hill missed it completely last time the plane in question is lancaster w4326 which crashed here after a photo flash went off in the rear of the plane causing a structural
break up on the night of 16/11/42!
will post up more g/e pics when i get them

Mosquito w4088

This site is about 1/2 a mile from the vampire site there is 3 main areas of remains !

The largest items are the main u/c and struts about 100 yrds below impact point

Impact point! there are many small remains the other wreckage is in the stream bed !
will try to get better refs but still trying to get me g.p.s sorted!

best ref is map 115/543552
this is the spread of wreckage that i found if there is anymore i could be further down the stream but i didn't find anything else !

Friday, 18 July 2008

Denbigh p-47 41-6195

Great day got soaking found nothing and me g.p.s which I'm new to didn't e'r well g.p.s heyho well some where in the frame of this picture p-47 41-6195 crashed will try again !
bike went fine though lol !

ref 116/916593

Mynydd mawr vampire VZ874

This site is of vampire VZ874 of 7fts crashed near the summit of mynydd mawr on the 12/10/56.

There are many small items in the hollow in the center of the picture !this site is worth doing as it is very close to mosquito w4088 !

ref115/539547

Thursday, 10 July 2008

Mill hill liberator b-24j 42-52003

This site on mill hill is the final resting place of b-24j 42-52003 which crashed here on the 10th Oct 1944 .
The planes remains as can be seen a very large and spread over quite a distance !.
Both undercarriage units remain on site and 3 of the engines of what remains of them !.
This picture shows one engine the most complete of the units and the large wing section lying very close to the pennine way only about 50 mtrs away on the left !
A very good site to visit is "peak wreck hunters" set up by mick and Sean lots of good details more than me on here!.