Often high ground wrecks were harder to access and 30..40 years ago it was considered that digging would unearth better items for museum display and also for the sale of parts which would offset the cost of the hire of plant machinery. The remote locations of high ground did however favour a lot of looting of smaller items many of which are still hidden away in sheds etc. The BAAc was formed to try and improve attitudes but came too late to save a lot of high ground wrecks from the looters and scrapmen(they never gave a toss for the historical aspect of the wrecks). The pace of looting has increased with the arrival of quads and building of many hill tracks. Some really good work has been done regarding Whitleys and Wellingtons for recognised projects but with ostrich attitudes from some landowners I feel its only 5 years left for the approx 200 sites left.
Regarding CAF at St Mawgan it is an opinion based on my own experience of helping at a seaside aviation museum where we struggled to get visitors across the admission barrier. I certainly wish them well but in the end the balance sheet will decide.
Talk of the P38 on the beach in North Wales had me googling the high ground P38 Plylimon site. Interested to note that the supercharger has been cut out and the landowner was not pleased. He is of the “leave it all on the hill as a memorial” group.Surely by now it is time to get the good items down and undercover away from the scrappers? A wreck local to me has the same problem, the Lancaster on the Monadliaths east of Kingussie.
Can anyone add an update as to the state of Uk co ordination of landowners in regards to high ground wrecks ? Is the BAAC still active?
The website suffers from poor translation and has not been proof read. My own use of English may be roepy and I crant type but then I am not trying to portray myself as a top class business when scribbling here.Using incorrect aircraft type references in the press release hardly inspires confidence.
The Wellington section is not from Loch Ness, from memory its part of L7775 Braemar high ground ,cant be certain of id until I locate the stored AAA mags.
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