By: roy9 - 6th September 2012 at 08:41
“The crash site was the subject of an inquiry as to recovery” this may be why the site is more disturbed than i remember it as a lad in the 70s
By: roy9 - 6th September 2012 at 08:36
The crew was Flight Lieutenant Roy Howard Mitchell DFC, and Flying Officer Alan Bywood, and their bodies were removed for burial by their families. Mitchell had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for sinking a German U-Boat in 1944.
What little remained of the plane was found again when the surrounding forest was felled in the 1980s, but dense new planting now surrounds the crash site once more. The aircraft is being left in peace for the forest slowly to reabsorb and so is deliberately not indicated on any map.
By: Al - 6th September 2012 at 08:29
It was largely untouched when I first saw it in the 1970s, and the engines were much more buried. The tailwheel had obviously been sawn off even then though!
I remember large sheets of armour lying around, turret rings, stainless exhausts, chromed undercarriage legs, bits of geodetic, loads of exploded .303, and even scraps of serge RAF uniform.
I’ll try to dig out more photos…
By: Whitley_Project - 5th September 2012 at 21:36
It’s the Warwick wreck in Culbin forest.
By: Creaking Door - 5th September 2012 at 20:42
Vickers Warwick I or VI with Pratt & Whitney R-2800.
The other object with a gear on it directly below the missing cylinder on the engine in ‘warwick3’ looks like a large electric motor; with a gear that size on it, it has to be the engine starter motor, surely?
By: Creaking Door - 5th September 2012 at 20:23
Well, ‘warwick5’ has got to be the tail-wheel crutch, surely? And ‘warwick4’ looks like undercarriage too.
The engines are American (which I’d forgotten were used on the Warwick) and the long rusty object in the foreground of ‘warwick2’ is one of the (four?) main undercarriage ‘oleos’ (spring / damper struts).
I’m pretty sure the two geared ‘spinning-tops’ near the engine in ‘warwick3’ are the two-speed supercharger gears / clutches; not sure if that is correct for these engines…
…R-2600? I’ll look it up.
By: Wyvernfan - 5th September 2012 at 15:26
Those pieces look familiar. If you use the search button you might find another thread that i’m sure had information about the same site.
Rob
By: Blue_2 - 5th September 2012 at 15:23
Other than the obvious engines I assume?
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