Blimey, this is a grim looking spot. My Dad was in the Fleet Air Arm in the 1950s, based at Lossiemouth for some time. They lost a few aircrew, with them flying into mountains hidden in the fog and clouds. They referred to this hazard as "Granite Overcast".
There are similar memorials to other crashes all over the country - one, to a B17 on top of Arenig Ffawr, one to a Spitfire pilot at Dylwyn, another on the marshy moorland saddle between Brown Clee and Titterstone Clee, which commemorates both British and German crews lost there and a new one near me, just north of Waseley Hills on the Illey Way. There are a great many more for those who look. "Lest we forget".......
It was a reconnaissance variant of the B-29 it was fitted with cameras rather than weapons. It was one of two aircraft that took pictures of the trinity nuclear weapons tests. Hence the name with a double meaning “OVER EXPOSED” and the reason it’s believed to have not been recovered, due to radiation.
The way your channel contents has changed in the last month , for me, is much more interesting. Telling these short stories about the area you live in (morbid, sad, mysterious), really is a radical change but incredibly more interesting (at least to me). This video, which you made into a short, was recommended to me by TH-cam. Great stuff.
Thank you! It's been a big pivot but these are really fun to research and make, and people seem to enjoy them. I'm glad you find them interesting. I've still got a lot of aspects to improve but I'm keep working on them.
The plane was carrying the payroll £7000 in their valueation currently worth qtr of a million at least today i think, dont quote me though, the payroll was for American airbase Burtonwood when it went down.
@1:10 to me that looks like an intetcooler radiator system, 1 fitted in situ with each prop engine "behind the prop n engine between the wing edge mount
There's a great site called peak district crashes, they have a list of all 173 here: www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/category/crash_sites/peak-district/
@@anitavarley1975 Oh I see what you mean, sorry. I hadn't looked at every pin but like you say some are outside like those around stoke. Looking at the description it says "most of the crash sites are within the National Park with others close to its boundaries" - I guess they did include crashes near the boundary to make them easier to categorise?
@@lebowski7717 Definitely worth a go! It’s hard to capture the scale of it on video. I’d say just try get a dry day and get the location saved on Google maps or something before as the path was a bit tricky to follow.
You may like our video about that plane. We tell some of the history including some more recent stuff about a find at the crash site th-cam.com/video/_lGteb-i0e0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sHcaW0kIjS1PC2Te
Yeh very sad 😕 a lot of pilots had trouble navigating in that region because of the weather and their equipment was a lot more basic than what we have today.
Blimey, this is a grim looking spot. My Dad was in the Fleet Air Arm in the 1950s, based at Lossiemouth for some time. They lost a few aircrew, with them flying into mountains hidden in the fog and clouds. They referred to this hazard as "Granite Overcast".
There are similar memorials to other crashes all over the country - one, to a B17 on top of Arenig Ffawr, one to a Spitfire pilot at Dylwyn, another on the marshy moorland saddle between Brown Clee and Titterstone Clee, which commemorates both British and German crews lost there and a new one near me, just north of Waseley Hills on the Illey Way. There are a great many more for those who look. "Lest we forget".......
It was a reconnaissance variant of the B-29 it was fitted with cameras rather than weapons. It was one of two aircraft that took pictures of the trinity nuclear weapons tests. Hence the name with a double meaning “OVER EXPOSED” and the reason it’s believed to have not been recovered, due to radiation.
The way your channel contents has changed in the last month , for me, is much more interesting. Telling these short stories about the area you live in (morbid, sad, mysterious), really is a radical change but incredibly more interesting (at least to me). This video, which you made into a short, was recommended to me by TH-cam.
Great stuff.
Thank you! It's been a big pivot but these are really fun to research and make, and people seem to enjoy them. I'm glad you find them interesting. I've still got a lot of aspects to improve but I'm keep working on them.
@@northernintrovertseems to be working, keep it up. Just look at the amount of views compared to the 'old' content. Cracking work.
Very well put together video dude. Cool to see some short documentary style videos of the cool stuff in the uk. Looking forward to watching more
Thanks a lot! Plenty more on the way soon 🙂
Great video, many thanks for posting ....
Great video mate
The plane was carrying the payroll £7000 in their valueation currently worth qtr of a million at least today i think, dont quote me though, the payroll was for American airbase Burtonwood when it went down.
Awesome video really enjoying your channel subscribed
Close enough. Welcome back Tom Scott!
Big fan of Tom Scott!
@1:10 to me that looks like an intetcooler radiator system, 1 fitted in situ with each prop engine "behind the prop n engine between the wing edge mount
The more you know. This is very interesting to say the least
Where did you get 170 I can’t find more than 9 recorded
There's a great site called peak district crashes, they have a list of all 173 here: www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/category/crash_sites/peak-district/
@@northernintrovert but there from all over the area of the UK as I said 9 from that actual area of Bleaklow plus there all from during WW11
@@anitavarley1975 Yeh that's right, the 173 are across the entire Peak District rather than just Bleaklow.
@@northernintrovert but it’s not all the Peak District granted a lot are but they go as far as stoke on Trent
@@anitavarley1975 Oh I see what you mean, sorry. I hadn't looked at every pin but like you say some are outside like those around stoke.
Looking at the description it says "most of the crash sites are within the National Park with others close to its boundaries" - I guess they did include crashes near the boundary to make them easier to categorise?
Where is this place exactly?
It's just off from a place called Snake Pass Summit. It has a pin on google maps if you search for "B29 OVEREXPOSED".
1:13 intercooler or radiator. Correct me if I’m wrong
This is the one over snakes pass isn’t it mate?
Aye that's the one, a mile or so walk from snake pass summit.
@@northernintrovert Drove past it many times might have to check it out after this vid
@@lebowski7717 Definitely worth a go! It’s hard to capture the scale of it on video. I’d say just try get a dry day and get the location saved on Google maps or something before as the path was a bit tricky to follow.
You may like our video about that plane. We tell some of the history including some more recent stuff about a find at the crash site
th-cam.com/video/_lGteb-i0e0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=sHcaW0kIjS1PC2Te
Nice video! Interesting to see how it looks without the cloud too.
@northernintrovert thankyou
First also that actually like kinda sad
Yeh very sad 😕 a lot of pilots had trouble navigating in that region because of the weather and their equipment was a lot more basic than what we have today.
Sad. You don't know a engine. When ya see it