Chuck,
The Brecon Beacons (National Park) is situated in South wales,
Snowdonia is North Wales. Both spectacular in their own way.
Within the boundaries of the Brecon Beacons National Park there are approx 40
aircraft crash sites. these are NOT all of 1939/45 vintage. these sites include
wellington, Mustang, Vulcan, Liberator, Spitfire, Lysander, Flying Fortress,
Thunderbolt A10, Blenheim, and Lightning crashes.
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2010/07/30/booklet-reveals-where-warplanes-crashed-in-beacons-91466-26960503/
The illustration for this article is incorrect, it shows the crash site of
wellington MF509 on Carreg Goch. However the article does refer to the crash
site we visited. Due to mist and fog visibility was about 15/20 yds. We left
the
site after about 45 mins and immediately the mist blew off giving 10ml
visibility! My misinformation was when I said crew was on a training flight,
they were actually returning from bombing Bordeaux and descended thinking they
were over east Anglia, a fatal mistake!
The Canadian training flight that crashed was on Waun Rhydd the next peak
across.
The Brecon Beacons National Park does a good pamphlet on Aircraft Crash
Sites.Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
----- Original Message ----
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, 11 December, 2010 10:57:39
Subject: Re: [OM] Battery gunk
Is that within Snowdonia (the only Welsh mountains I'm familiar with)?
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/11/2010 3:56 AM, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
> Thanks Chuck,
> Thats exactly what I was looking for. Should have
googled
> it myself but was half asleep as well as suffering from a head cold. Just
about
> to leave for a service of remembrance for a Canadian crew of a Wellington
>bomber
> which came down on one of our local mountains during a wartime training
flight.
> It is a bleak spot at the best of times made even worse by our present spell
of
> bad weather.
> Regards
> John Duggan,
> Wales, UK
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