Peter

I use http://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-translator.php for converting the Cassini references to lat / long and then plot onto OS NGR using Fugawi (similar to Memory Map).

I like the system on WTP though.

When are these airframes going under cover, especially as some of them are in good condition inside and out?

Of the 34 Jacksons who died between May 8th 1945 and December 31st 1959 only two died on days when either an Anson or Oxford was lost.

No.1

Acting Pilot Officer George Anthony Alexander Jackson, RAF Holme on Spalding Moor, 16th May 1952. Same day, Oxford AT670, No.14 FTS, Holme on Spalding Moor, crashed at Common Farm, Brough, East Yorkshire.

No.2

Squadron Leader Archibald Reginald Gerald Jackson MBE AFC, RAF Mount Batten, 14th August 1957, also lost Anson TX222, No.19 Group Communication Flight (RAF Mount Batten being under the command of No.19 Group), crashed Botley Hill, Kent.

The others died on days when there was no aircraft loss of there was a loss involving another type from the same unit / station.

There will be various nasties lurking around former airfield sites, mainly in and around the former dumps.

Here is a short list of the ones that I can think of right now.

Muntions – from both sides!
Hydrocarbons (fuels etc)
Asbestos
Acids / Alkalis
Glycol
Metal / Metal compounds
Solvents

If you want more take a look at the Department of Environment Industry Profiles on the Environment Agceny web site. There isn’t one for defence sites but you can piece it together from some of the others, mainly aircraft manufacture, airports and explosives manufacture.

Actually I think the date was right, there is a very brief mention.

“On 3rd June 6 accidents occurred, but only in one case was the pilot injured.”

Not what you would call wonderful information but it is start.

Gordon

There wasn’t any mention of that crash in the No.58 OTU ORB, a fatal crash close to the airfield was mentioned on the 29th June and there was no month end accidents list for July.

Alan

The recovered items were on display in Hanger 3 at Waddington airshow last weekend.

They are also available form the commercial suppliers of accident reports, http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/reports.htm#USAF and http://www.accident-report.com/Serials/models.html

If you are interested in aircraft that were used in the European theatre then don’t expect much from the records. I got on for a P-47 that was used by the 78th FG and 495th FTG but its record stopped when it was loaded on to a ship in the US. Only its eventual write off was noted.