Morning folks hope your all ok. I thought I'd post some pics which some of you may find interesting.
Yesterday I took a walk out onto the high moors of Derbyshire to visit a crash site I only found out about a couple of weeks ago.
The pictures show the wreckage of USAF B-29 Superfortress "Over Exposed", belonging to the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron.
On the 3rd November 1948 her crew took off from RAF Scampston in the county of Lincolnshire to fly to the U.S airbase at Burtonwood in the county of Lancashire; a flight of about an hour. She was carrying mail and pay. At approximately 11am the plane crashed on Bleaklow Moor, about 200yards from an outcrop known as Higher Shelf Stones at 2000ft ASL. The plane burst into flames; all 13 of her crew were killed instantly.
The plane was descending in low cloud that covered England on that particular day. High Shelf Stones is the outcrop of rock background middle left, and looks higher. But if you stand by the wreckage you can see that if they'd of been no more than 20 feet higher they'd of cleared the summit.
You can see 4 of the Cyclone engines.
One of the undercarriage.
Remains of one of the wings.
Scattered across the site are pieces of wreckage that point to the intensity of the blaze. A piece of the aluminum structure that has melted.
There's a small memorial stone at the site, and people come up every year to lay some poppies and a wreath.
Bleaklow is appropriately named. Although just over a mile from the A57 Snake Pass and 3 miles from the town of Glossop, in an English winter it seems a grim and lonely place.
And a couple of very good sites that tell the story of "Over Exposed" in far more detail.
http://www.glossopheritage.co.uk/b29.htm
https://www.peakdistrictaircrashes....t/boeing-rb-29a-44-61999-higher-shelf-stones/
Anyway hope you've found it interesting.
Is it worth printing a few posters, maybe offer a small reward?
