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    Arrow Bristol Blenheim MK.I - L1476 Crash Site May 2012.

    RAF Bristol Blenheim Mk.I L1476
    Sykes Moor, Bleaklow


    Blenheim Mk.I L1476 of 64 Fighter Squadron RAF crashed on Sykes Moor 30th January 1939 During a training flight from RAF Church Fenton.
    Both of the crew were new to the Squadron and Church Fenton and were getting used to the surrounding areas.
    The aircraft Never returned from the exercise and was Marked as missing,
    on the 12th February 1939 two weeks since the aircraft was lost the wreck and the two dead crew were discovered by a hill walker.
    South African airmen Pilot Officer Stanley John Daly Robinson and Acting Pilot Officer Jack Elliott Thomas were both killed in the crash.RIP
    Some info aquired from the web says The crew must have become hopelessly lost, Early searches were concentrated over the sea,
    but they were well inland when they flew into Sykes Moor and the aircraft disintegrated.,
    however In Peakland Air Crashes - The North (2006), Pat Cunningham says the bodies of the airmen were found some distance back along the the planes flightpath,
    suggesting the men had baled out, but Tragically they were too close to the ground to use their parachutes.

    There is a rememberence monument built at the crash site in 1991 by the cadets and staff of 1401 squadron ATC.



    1 looking west

    2 Engine

    3 Aircorps

    4 Reduct gear

    5 with hole

    6 Wreckage 2

    7 wreckage 1

    8 2Engines

    9 Crumpled

    10 looking east

    11 engine side

    12 plaque

    Thanks for looking

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    Default Re: Bristol Blenheim Mk.I L1476 Crash site visit 27.5.2012

    Quote Originally Posted by Clough View Post
    What's the actual plane look like?
    The Bristol Blenheim was a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company that was used extensively in the early days of the Second World War. It was adapted as an interim long-range and night fighter, pending the availability of the Beaufighter. It was one of the first British aircraft to have all-metal stressed-skin construction, to utilise retractable landing gear, flaps, powered gun turret and variable pitch propellers. A Canadian-built variant named the Bolingbroke was used as an anti-submarine and training aircraft. The Blenheim Mk I outshone most
    biplane fighters in the late 1930s but
    stood little chance against the
    German Messerschmitt Bf 109.....
    And it would have looked similar to this before it crashed
    Last edited by jay6600; 30-05-2012 at 11:01 AM.

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