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Post by obiwan27 on May 8, 2011 17:54:44 GMT 12
www.ziln.co.nz/video/1032Join Wellington local Henry Chisholm in the Rimutaka foothills behind Wainuiomata as he goes in search of and finds the wreckage of a RNZAF P-40 that crashed in low cloud in 1942.
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Post by baz62 on Jul 14, 2011 16:26:38 GMT 12
www.ziln.co.nz/video/1032Join Wellington local Henry Chisholm in the Rimutaka foothills behind Wainuiomata as he goes in search of and finds the wreckage of a RNZAF P-40 that crashed in low cloud in 1942. Yes amazing footage, I think the first heavy steel tubing he finds is actually the engine mount. And of course the undercarriage leg is the bit with the heavy bevel gears which enabled the P40 undercarriage to rotate 90 degrees as it retracted and extended. |
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Post by Tony on Jul 14, 2011 22:53:33 GMT 12
I originally posted this in the MoTaT Thread (P.13)
Thought I would repost it here for completeness:
"I took a trip up to the wreck site way back in the late '60's.
The scar was visible from Wellington Road (and still is I believe).
The rudder was in a property at the end of Sunny Grove and was visible as we started the walk up the stream.
The engine had been carried (rolled) down and was partially buried by the stream.
The armour plate had also been carried down but abandoned and that was also by the stream.
The experts in our team found what they wanted (fibrelock nuts from the tail-feathers?).
I scooped up some small items of wreckage but the best was a fabric piece still in its Sky Blue. I lost it a couple of years ago dammit!
Oh and we also recovered a bright green tipped armour-piercing .5 round that we handed into the police.
I really would like to visit the site again. "
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