Thanks for that Steve. Good excuse to get me boots out and go do some
walking!
When I was @ Tangmere we had a badly bent 4 gun tail turret but I can't
remember what it was attributed to... I'll go look & see if it's still
there.
mike

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> From: Whitley_project@... on behalf of Steven
> Reynolds
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> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:17 am
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> Subject: [Whitley_project] Undercarridge
>
> Hi,
>
> There were substantial undercarriage parts at the wreck site of BD232 at
> Llyn Dullyn, Caernedd Llywellyn. This is one of the biggest fields of
> wreckage from a Whitley, but what is left is mostly smallish to medium
> fragments, badly broken up and corroded. There were some large and
> interesting components there, years ago, such as a near intact rear
> turret. Unfortunately many of these large components have been "recovered"
> but I've never managed to find out what happened to them...
>
> Elliot organised a recovery at this site last September. All the parts to
> be recovered were supposed to be placed in nets and then the RAF were
> going to loan a Chinook to lift the nets off the mountain.
>
> Well, that was the idea. I was looking forward to going along to this one,
> but at the last minute it had to be cancelled due to some paperwork
> problems with the site being an SSI, or something.
>
> I haven't heard from Elliot since, so I don't know if it got re-booked and
> done at a later date, or if it now has to wait until the better weather in
> the spring.
>
> Either way, there are some large undercarriage parts 'about', somewhere!
> Last time I looked at then (up the mountain) they were so broken and badly
> corroded that it wasn't possible to tell very much about how they folded
> up.
>
> Steve
>
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