http://www.wattisham.org.uk/wtm-1981-12.htm
December 1981,17th WH972 CM Canberra T17 100 Sqn Overshoot
Martin
“The Weymann’s bus and coach works in Addlestone was adapted to manufacture vehicle bodies for ambulances, lorries, cabs and prison vans, and troop carriers. The Addlestone based Airscrew Company (formerly the Lang Propeller Company) manufacturing propellers for fighter planes during the Second World War and also manufactured the Walrus seaplane which was based at Chertsey Meads. The world’s only factory manufacturing darts for the troops at this time was also based in Addlestone. In Egham, Lagonda (Staines) Ltd ceased manufacturing cars with the out-break of war in 1939 and instead made shells, flame throwers, and aircraft fuel tanks. The Chertsey and Longcross “Tank Factory” was built in 1939 and tanks were tested on Chobham Common”
http://chertseymuseum.org/bully-beef
“Saunders Row of Addlestone set up a building and a circular concrete installation on Chertsey Meads to in order to water-test the small slow 3 seat ‘Walrus’ amphibian aircraft.“
http://www.rocremembered.com/chertsey-meads-ww2-sea-plane/
Simply amazing!!!
I never new the Americans flew these.
“…about 25 Westland Lysanders went to the USAAF in the UK.”
Lysander Light support aircraft Westland
http://www.airpages.ru/eng/uk/lys.shtml
First doubts in BBC Mundo about the 2015 findings (sorry only in Spanish) http://www.latercera.com/noticia/mundo/bbc-mundo/2015/02/1433-617173-9-bbc-los-mitos-del-avion-que-aparecio-dos-veces-en-53-anos-en-el-sur-de-chile.shtml
Martin
Maybe this article could be of help http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/87513703/from-sunny-search
Martin
edit: “Not as far as I know for the RAF machines. There was at least one two seater fitted with radar by (for?) the USAAF. 44-72210/VF-S with a “Lark” system but details are scarce.” http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=304708
You can find 19 photos from 1961 and a good describtion of the crash-site and the assumed reasons why the DC-3 crashed that night in the Andes! (sorry in Spanish!)
http://modocharlie.com/2015/02/el-accidente-del-douglas-dc-3-lan-210-equipo-green-cross/
Martin
Hi Jan
MAybe of help http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=58659
Martin
I have a question for DC-3 specialists:
If you compare the old foto from 1961 in post #8 with these detail of a photo taken on January 26, 2015, assuming it is a tail wheel section of a plane, than it’s a different plane they found last month.
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But over to the experts!
Martin
Interesting sentence in this article:
“The wreckage was not where official publications indicated that it would be, according to the mountaineers.”
@Moggy
Looking at the ICAO report and the ASN report on the one side and all the articles that appeared the last days on the other side –
the “old” crash site is located around 44 km SE of Linares at an elevation of 7.000 ft
the “new” crash site is located around 77 km NE of the “old” and at an elevation of 10.500 ft!
These are two different locations!
Here you can find a photo – it shows the horizontal stabilisers
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Such a remarkable piece of the plane – why haven’t they took a shot from this piece during the January 2015 expedition?
“Rescuers found the tail end of the aircraft and some human remains a week after the crash, an official who asked not to be named told Reuters, but the recovery effort was abandoned near the snow-capped peaks due to its dangerous and remote location.”
The main question remains: Which plane do they found April 10, 1961 and made a detailed describtion of the crash site in the ICAO report 1963??
Martin
edit: to be precise – it is a ICAO circular (69-AN/61) mentioning the report of the Directorate of Aviation – Chilean Air Force Headquarters, Chile.
It’s a bit irritating – the datas from the ICAO report (1963) and what is now mentioned in new reports (2015)
The two locations are about 48 miles apart, and the elevation of the two places differs between 7.000 ft and 10.500 ft.
This is from the ICAO report:
“From the wreckage’s position it was determined that the flight was on a southweat heading, although owing to the aircraft’s being entirely destroyed and burnt out it was not possible to state i t s speed or altitude, or whether the left engine had failed, At impact it appeared that the right engine was functioning normally.”
What have they found in the past and what today?
Martin
Just to add the “ICAO Circular 69-AN/6l” – the crash is mentioned beginning page 65
http://aviation.mid.gov.kz/images/stories/contents/069_en.pdf
“re-discovered” – http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/football-teams-plane-wreck-found-5107420
and here is an article from 2011 in Spanish http://editorialmanutara.blogspot.de/2011/04/cincuenta-anos-del-accidente-del-lan.html