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What the hell, Jan? You have to wear a reflective vest so the civilians always know where you're at?
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What the hell, Jan? You have to wear a reflective vest so the civilians always know where you're at?
Here's mine with an Aircraft. (I am on the left side of the pic. Conducting the Honor Guard for the CAF (Commemorative Air Force) expo. The Plane behind us is a B-29 called "FIFI."
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They use Anchor Steam as one of the components of concrete over there. And as a floor wax......I had no idea it was popular overseas.
We have a few US...eerrrmmmm..... intoxicating beverages, that could, possibly, be used as an individual libation, in some quantity, but of questionable quality....
http://www.lamr.co.uk/Crashes/44-68072.htm16 brand new B-26 Marauders were being flown from the air base at St Mawgan in Cornwall to the USAAF depot at Burtonwood near Warrington. It was the last leg of a long journey which had taken several days from Morrison Army Airfield in Florida to the south western tip of England via Trinidad, Brazil, Dakar and Marrakech.
Upon arrival at Burtonwood the crews and the aircraft would be dispersed around the country for operational duty.
Marauder 44-68072 and the 5 airmen on board never made it. After take off, the weather deteriorated and while cloud cover obscured their view, winds had pushed the bomber off course and instead of descending to land at Burtonwood at the expected ETA, the aircraft crashed on the summit ridge of Y Garn in the mountains of Snowdonia killing all those on board.
The long southerly journey – using the Mid-Atlantic Air Ferry Route – was designed to keep them from the dangers of winter weather over the north Atlantic. But no matter how safe the trans-Atlantic route, British weather caught them out just 100km from their final destination.
The body of one the crew was found near the summit, the rest were all in the wrecked aircraft which broke up on impact, with the front of the bomber careering over the cliffs of the north face of Y Garn and down into Cwn Cywion where some of the wreckage remains today.
CREW
2nd Lt. Kenneth W.Carty (pilot) from California
2nd Lt William H. Cardwell (co-pilot) from Utah
1st Lt. Nolen B. Sowell (navigator) from Texas
Cpl. Jack D. Arnold (radio operator) from Dakota
Cpl. Rudolph M . Aguirre (engineer) from New Mexico
Good stuff Alex. I have a small book covering most of the crash sites in Snowdonia and North Wales. Also got an OS map of my local area which I marked with every known crash site (in the Peak District) about thirty years ago, and there are lots!
Many of the crashes were due to the same thing - descending in bad weather for Burtonwood, only to find that the clouds had hills in them.
I think I visited about half of them, so probably about 30 or more, back in the days when I was still fit. Now, because of the stupid arthritis, I wouldn't even be able to get over a dry stone wall, let alone tab across the peat and tussock grass for miles!