Aircraft crash

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Post by PaulinBont » Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:47 pm

Day out on the mid-Wales hills to visit a crash site

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Post by PaulinBont » Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:48 pm

Just inside the treeline; this forestry wasn't here during WW2

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Post by PaulinBont » Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:50 pm

GS friendly track

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Post by PaulinBont » Mon Sep 25, 2017 3:52 pm

Twin 9 cylinder rotary engine off a P-47 Thunderbolt

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Post by PaulinBont » Mon Sep 25, 2017 4:51 pm

The engine is remarkably intact

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Post by Old Git Ray » Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:23 pm

Yeah, hook up a battery and give it a go.

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Post by PaulinBont » Mon Sep 25, 2017 6:37 pm

At the going down of the sun
and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Post by big al » Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:26 pm

Hope you gave the bike a good clean after that run Paul

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Post by Q plate » Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:12 pm

Hi Paul is this the one..i walked up to it didn't know you could ride

http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk ... ydd-copog/

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Post by bowber » Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:20 pm

There's one above Hardnott or wrynose pass, can't remember which. I knew people that had visited it shortly after it crashed.

Steve