within a stones throw of numerous camp sites !

Caernarfon airfield and museum are 35 miles miles north and Llanbedra is a mere 5 miles south. These could be used for initial removal. Both are right on the coast and there is a dock very close to Caernarfon airfield, Fort Belan.

Hi Alan, Thanks for your input.

Firstly we really do need to be very careful about when any photo was taken. The Metadata can tell you this but this can of course be changed but I see no reason why this would have been done.
The photo accompanying the video on the Skyonix site has the following data, Date Created 04/12/2014 which is the date I downloaded it. however the DATE TAKEN is recoded as 31/10/2012. An image downloaded from Mr. Mearman’s web site HAS THE SAME Metadate DATE TAKEN 31/10/2012. From this I suggest it is reasonable to assume that all these pictures were taken some years ago. The publication date of reports and photos does not necessarily have any relation to when the photos were actually taken. The photos on Flickr seem to only show the uploaded date.

I take your point regarding the tide on December the 2nd and some tides in August but as I said I have carefully studied all the photos available and in my opinion we located the likely location. We were on the beach at the lowest tide point and surveyed the whole beach and the waterline. A further sandbank was visible a short way off from the water line and no doubt that would be uncovered if the tide had been lower. This is not reflected in our pictures, which were taken later in the afternoon, as there was nothing to take pictures of at low tide. I appreciate that this was not your point but that the tide was lower when you were there in August.

Could you let me know the dates you were there please.

I am reluctant to discuss an accurate location although personally I think that that ship sailed long ago.

What do other forumites think, discuss location or not? I would only use existing pictures in the public domain to illustrate why I feel the aeroplane has been reburied.

The point is there is now no aeroplane to be picked by scavengers.

Paul

Thanks for that Mike adds interest.

I am right in understanding that the outboard pylon pods are for refuelling? When researching which mark it was I noticed pictures with and without these pods were both referred to as an MC130H, is there no further letter for the tanker version or is it just thought of as optional kit?

Thinking that the pictures on the link to a website recently posted were taken this year I thought it was time I visited the site as I only live about an hour away. The intention was to make a full photographic record of the condition of the wreck.
So last Tuesday we visited the beach which we had to ourselves.

The aeroplane was almost completely uncovered lying in a shallow pool of water.

I am very pleased to report that, with some help from my wife, I was able to recover the entire airframe.

Bearing in mind the need to prevent fizzing of the aluminium I immediately started treatment.

I did squeeze all the lemons as suggested but I wonder now if I should have peeled them first.

Hi Strata sorry o lunch just seen your comment. Hmm it obviously works ok for me, is anybody else having trouble?
Can only suggest accessing it by sear hung within Facebook for the Blenheim Society group and hopefully get in that way. Cannot say I get on very well with Facebook so do not fully understand how to navigate it.
Paul

Just found a finely detailed set of images of the P38 taken in June 2014 from a drone/UAV
http://joseph.mearman.co.uk/

Help me out here please. Do you know that these images were taken on that date or is that the date from the website of the publication? Thanks

May have my own answer as I have downloaded one of the photos and it has a date tag of 10/2012!!

Think it would look better with the prop spinning….

funny you should say that I thought the same thing together with a surround sound system playing a recording of a merlin fly past☺

(Waits for the thread prefect to arrive to moan about the thread drift….)

And quite rightly so!!

When it comes to pictures we are blessed with fellow forumites who not only give their time but also choose to share their professional standard work with us on an almost daily basis. I, along with many others I am sure, are most grateful and very appreciative of their contributions. Cannot recall the phrase I am looking for but something like “quality is worth waiting for.”