here it is
FLYING FORTRESS .. POSITION 50 46 19N 00 00 19W DEPTH 17 M
WINGS REMOVED BY NAVY AFTER FATAL ACCIDENT WITH DIVER ,AIR IS STILL IN ONE LANDING WHEEl.

LANCASTER FROM 50 SQN.
POSITION 50 49 00N 00 23 24E DEPTH 10M
CAME DOWN AFTER RETURNING FROM A NIGHT RAID OVER GERMANY ON OR AROUND 9TH OR 10TH JULY 1943.
HALF BURIED IN GRAVEL TWO ENGINES SALVAGED.

SPITFIRE POSITION 50 46 51N 00 01 16W
SITS 3M HIGH ON THE SEABED

[QUOTE=peter;1075048]Most of the views are outdated but interesting though.

If the picture has the birds eye option its usually a fairly recent pic ,maybe 1 or 2 years old.Unfortunatly not everywhere has this option

yep fair point damien ,I was just pointing out its not to hard to get to from the M25 as a central area.

the dvd will be one of these types you can instantly switch from outside the aircraft to an inside the cockpit view so should be good , if you ordered at the show you got a free red arrows dvd aswell, the shoreham dvd is due out in January.

I know this tail to be true!

My late father flew with the RAF (182 & 616 sqn’s) and after WWII was not demobilized until late 1947, much to his annoyance (his demobilization delayed several times due to officer shortages) anyway on his return to the UK in 1947 he was tasked with (being the only officer available at the time) to de-store a RAF station which I believe to be RAF Sawbridgeworth (as he was living/billited in Essex at the time) I remember him telling me that half a dozen or so RAF AEC Matador’s trucks with hugh trailers arrived and every thing from beds frames to complete Rolls Royce engines and large aircraft components were loaded on, then oddly and much to everyone’s displeasure they we told to head off to Cornwall.

After three days of driving they arrived at an exhausted tin mine where everything was unceremoniously dropped down the hole. The engines (and other large items) were unpacked out of wooden crates and dragged by a large truck mounted winch to the edge of the pit shaft and levered over the edge, after which apparently several seconds of silence was punctuated by very large noises from the depths of the earth as the one way journey ended. During the time of this disposal a similar Army/REME team arrived with several large trucks full of ‘stuff’ and they too began disposal down the pit shaft, so much equipment was tipped over that bets were taken on if they were going to fill it up and the duration of silence between the drop and the crashes.

I remember asking ‘why go to Cornwall?’ and he could only say that the government owned the pit so they allowed it use as a land fill, as this method of disposal of the scrap was more cost effective than selling it on a worn surplus flooded market.

I remember reading about the clean up operation of chemical weapons etc.. at RAF Portreath in Cornwall and the article did mention several extremely deep pits that had been used for dumping excess material including contaminants ,maybe this was where your father was .
Other than aircraft I know from several different guys that they remember seeing hundreds of military vehicles being lined up at the end of a valley in Brighton and then being covered with soil, this valley then became the areas local council tip which was in use until a few years back when basically the valley was full. Unfortunetly this means the vehicles would now be over a hundred feet beneath tons of domestic waste plus a sports field.So close yet so so far away.

charles bronson , tail gunner on b 29s

this is where you can book a flight in a harvard at Shoreham airport http://www.warbirdflying.com/harvard.asp