https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRTC69_C12g&feature=youtu.be
http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/USAAFe/USAAF129-440912-stinker.html
(the above is a profile illustration).
By: Bomberboy - 3rd March 2015 at 00:22
Here is a tale to share with you all, related to the 398th Bomb wing from which “Stinker” came.
Why did you change the OP’s original thread reference and now keep calling it the 398th Bomb Wing?
It was the 398th Bomb Group, not wing.
For completeness, the 398th Bomb Group along with the 91st and 381st Bomb Groups, was part of the 1st Bomb Wing of the 1st Air Division of the 8th US Army Air Force/Corps.
In the woods to the south of the runway at Nuthampstead, (you can see them if you look on Google maps, marked at the bottom left as East Wood) there are a small number of Redwood (Sequoia?) trees. Not an indigenous species, these were planted from seeds brought over by Army Air Corps personnel. The plantings were made to commemorate the loss of aircraft/aircrew from the base.
I’ve got a pal who knows the woods there well, from whom the story came.
Never heard of that one before?
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Can’t understand where all the stainless exhaust shield and fire wall has gone surely can’t have completely corroded away?
The exhaust sections themselves are made from Inconel, not stainless steel, but there’s no sign of them either.
That armoured glass section from the tail is nice.
I’d agree, but the profile illustration link added in the OP’s initial post, shows a Cheyenne tail, which this glass would not be appropriate to.
By: Ndege - 2nd March 2015 at 17:40
Here is a tale to share with you all, related to the 398th Bomb wing from which “Stinker” came. In the woods to the south of the runway at Nuthampstead, (you can see them if you look on Google maps, marked at the bottom left as East Wood) there are a small number of Redwood (Sequoia?) trees. Not an indigenous species, these were planted from seeds brought over by Army Air Corps personnel. The plantings were made to commemorate the loss of aircraft/aircrew from the base.
I’ve got a pal who knows the woods there well, from whom the story came. There are apparently still a few still growing there. Now that Spring is arriving, I’ll go and search one out.
Ndege.
By: Orion - 17th February 2015 at 14:23
Lots of info and some photos here:
Simon
A war grave. I hope everybody respects this when swimming at the site.
Regards
By: tomward - 17th February 2015 at 11:34
Can’t understand where all the stainless exhaust shield and fire wall has gone surely can’t have completely corroded away? That armoured glass section from the tail is nice.
Seawater corrodes stainless steel. I work in the pump industry and we manufacture our pumps from high chromium steels known as Duplex or Super Duplex for sea water duties. Not necessary on an aircraft that isn’t designed to be used at sea though so more conventional stainless steels would be used.
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th February 2015 at 11:15
602 squadron, 398th bomb wing? A Nuthampstead based aeroplane. Did the crew get out? Any idea of what brought it down?
I’ll raise a silent glass to them next time I’m in the Woodman.
Lots of info and some photos here:
Simon
By: Ndege - 17th February 2015 at 09:59
Can’t understand where all the stainless exhaust shield and fire wall has gone surely can’t have completely corroded away? That armoured glass section from the tail is nice.
602 squadron, 398th bomb wing? A Nuthampstead based aeroplane. Did the crew get out? Any idea of what brought it down?
I’ll raise a silent glass to them next time I’m in the Woodman.
By: Arabella-Cox - 17th February 2015 at 07:32
Can’t understand where all the stainless exhaust shield and fire wall has gone surely can’t have completely corroded away? That armoured glass section from the tail is nice.
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