So do I Ian, TBF Andrew, you have to make a specific effort to come across it, its hardly strewn across the Pennine way. I had intended to visit the site this afternoon and take some new photos but alas, something happened which scuppered my plans for the day. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Superfortress RB-29A 44-61999 Over-Exposed! (aka the Bleaklow Bomber). Yes a sad losses indeed, three crew dead. The return journey is probably a bit easier head south east and turn right when you reach the Pennine Way. The recovery of the occupants took place the following morning and their bodies were taken to Burtonwood. There is also a poignancy to this walk as it visits an aircraft crash site which claimed 13 lives. It sold for a whopping 7300. Bleaklow is a high peat covered, gritstone plateau North of. I had taken a bearing from my bivi site and tramped across the moor in the darkness, planning on catching the first of the sunlight. Or what is equally likely, bearing in mind that both aircraft were in very steep climbing attitudes, is that, in reaction to his leaders over-hasty pull, Flight Lieutenant Green had pulled even harder, got high, and being momentarily unsighted from his leader, had collided in blindly pushing back into position. A memorial was erected at the site in 1988. Republic P-47D-1-RE Thunderbolts, 42-7872 and 42-7898. Sad tale Ian. B29 'Overexposed' crash site walk, Bleaklow (6km, circular): including Higher Shelf trig point . However, the steep and restricted nature of the 1,750-feet-above-sea-level site had made it difficult to turn into wind, so that, without the assistance of the full wind speed, the helicopter had required its maximum torque to lift off, and then move forwards from the hover. Scattered across an area of Bleaklow moorland is the remains of the American World War II era Boeing Superfortress bomber called the B-29 'Overexposed'. The boulders throughout the Bleaklow area are spectacular and worn into different shapes and figures from the harsh weather conditions that have battered them and if you have a good imagination you can see all sorts of things when looking at the strange shapes. I was thinking, he must be coming here, theres nothing else out here except this place But I hadnt slept all night so it did cross my mind I might be hallucinating! Airspeed Oxford NM683, Rushup Edge, Peak District. bless you for helping us to remember. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: To have a sign with the words, AIRCRAFT WRECK SITE Follow waymarked route, just a few metres from the lay-by at the top of the Snake Pass (circled in the image below) could have led unprepared visitors deeper into the moors. These two sites are a bit awkward to get to, well away from the path, over a fence and down some steepish roughish ground.
