A plane crash site near Manchester (Boeing RB -29A Superfortress)
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- In today's video I visit the crash site of a US air force Boeing RB-29A Superfortress.
The crash site is on Bleaklow in Derbyshire near Glossop and Manchester.
On the 3rd of November 1948 the aircraft crashed on a day time flight when the area was covered with low cloud.
13 people tragically lost their lives.
Nice video. The leaving the wreckage there is a brilliant memorial to the fallen. Beautiful location seems very eerie. Loving the geeky facts!
@chrisbaines4339, thank you for the comment. Definitely worth a visit if you ever get a chance and you are correct a brilliant memorial.
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Nice video. Glad it has not been stripped.
Hey @ davidkozinski. Agree mate, very eerie experience and of course very sad that all them people needlessly lost their lives
Great video
@julieleah9913 thank you 🙂
Thanks for sharing this. I'm sure that after the crash the US Air Force came out and removed the remains if possible and any sensitive equipment from the crash site.
I'm from the US, and I study WW2 history, so this video was very interesting.
Thanks again for sharing.
@toddmcclellan979 thank for your comment and all your information. I'm really happy you enjoyed mate 🙂
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Very interesting location!
@Viking88Power, I really is mate
Very surprised any of it is still there. Kind of expected this to have been cleared up decades ago.
Hello @peterbest5938. Yeah it amazing how much of it is still remaining.
I think it classed as a place of memorial and that's why it remains.
I believe that the long tube with spaced rings shown at 2:23 is part of the communication tunnel that connected the front and back of the place, running on the top of the bomb bays.
@4000ChacoRoad, oh fantastic! That's really interesting and very much appreciated.
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That would make sense. The cockpit and areas where the crew stations were located were pressurized. The tube/tunnel was a way to connect the pressurized portions of the aircraft and extended from the cockpit through the fuselage to the crew stations in the rear of the aircraft. Pressurizing allowed flying without oxygen masks and the cold weather clothing like in the earlier B-17/B-24/B-25s
@@geodes4762 thank you for your comment and all that information. Really interested and I am now getting to learn a lot more about this particular aircraft.
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