Drones

Looks nice and quiet there Jack, I suppose at this moment in time were lucky to have such places to visit.

Where would you rather be there or Gaza? Doesn't even warrant a reply mate!

Getting difficult finding a interesting location usually I drive but the bike is better 

Are you doing anymore old USAAF Airfields Jack?

Can do Bob most around here are just fields 

No air in 'em! 🤣 

There was 80 odd years ago Pat, when the old B17s and B24s were ready to take off!

My mother lived in Wellingborough, surrounded by airfields. She said their childhood entertainment was to go into town during the blackout to watch the Yank airmen coming out of the cinema. As they were largely black all she could see was eyes and teeth in the darkness! One of her aunts followed one back to America at the end of the war to find he had a wife and kids, and then was arrested in the southern state for 'consorting with negroes'! Her father had to go over and rescue her and she never did marry! Mum always spoke about the night the air was filled with rumble of the thousands of planes heading for Arnhem!

Aint gorra Drone but used to bimble in the Dark Peak Pennines to visit WW11 crash sites, Stirling, Wellington, Spitfire but best of all the B29 on the top of Beaklow just off the Pennine Way. Wreckage spread over a quarter mile, the alluminium shines as good as new.

The father in law was obsessed with a spitfire that crashed just off the coast here and was determined to find it. I spent many hours being dragged around underwater and did actually find a couple of bits including a bit of the skin a few .303" bullets and part of a hydraulic ram from the undercarriage, but sadly never the main part. A mate of his came over from Wales bringing a few bits he'd picked up from around the Brecon Beacons crash sites and we used to conceal them in our diving gear and bring them up to present to him as Spitfire bits. Eventually he contacted the local aircraft historical society and they came and got the bits, later ringing him to say that several were from a Wellington and others from a 1950's Vampire! He wasn't a bit pleased that we'd scammed him for years and swore revenge, but I got mine first by marrying the arsehole's daughter! 🤣 

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I believe that somewhere in the UK, an ME109 was found crashed in a wood with what remained of the pilot in the cockpit!

When living in N W Shiny Sheff near the South Yorks Pennines one Sun afternoon a Hawker Hunter on its way back from an air show nose dived into the peat bogs on Broomhead Moor. Recovery operation only found the pilots false teeth, so still theer burried deep down. Only marker is a wooden post put theer by gamekeeper mate Dave Beaumont.

Poor bugger what a way to go, in a thousand years time he might be found like peat bog man perfectly preserved .

With his joystick in his hand!

Hope he manages to scoff, minus flase gnashers!

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