Mondays adventure, WWII bomber crash site in NH (pics)

[scudweiser]

For some time now i wanted to check this site out, and since i have been a jobless susy homemaker for the past couple of weeks i decided i had the free time, so i saddled up and went. In 1942 a B18 bomber crashed on Mt. Waternomee outside of Lincoln, NH. IIRC 5 out of the 7 crew members were ok, and walked away :eek: . It was kind of cool because the engines were all torn up so some cylinders were missing the head, some were a bit torn up, and some were completely intact. The landing gear had taken out a huge *** maple tree too, that was neat, and leading up to that was a huge debris field with melted metal, pieces of the airframe and all of the rocks had huge gouges in them from the landing gear bouncing off them. Heres pics:


my hiking budday


:us:




WW eleven.


one of the engines


connecting rod


a piston


one of the valves


detail of a valve spring, not bad for being exposed for like 68 years


valve spring and stuff


piece of an electric motor i think


a chunk of aluminum that melted


toby checking out one of the wings


it was pretty creepy hiking up to it, but once i got there it was just cool as heck.

[DJ metadelic]

dude, that is awesome. this is something i want to check out as well, but i bet it'd be a bit eerie.

[turbomaxx]

That's incredible, man! Any more pics?

[visualpoet]

Sweet. I love bits of the past like this, great pics, they make me want to go see the site someday.

I gotta ask though, WTF word did you use to describe the maple tree?

...huge *** maple tree too,...

[Pandemic]

I hiked to a wreckage in New Mexico. That was pretty cool too.

[DJ metadelic]

zach, it's too bad there's no fuselage left up @ camel's hump. just one engine i think, or a wing? can't remember, but there's not much left of that one either. both from the same era though i believe

[scudweiser]

Sweet. I love bits of the past like this, great pics, they make me want to go see the site someday.

I gotta ask though, WTF word did you use to describe the maple tree?

i used a vulgar word for "butt", ass actually, i just copied and pasted this from another forum im on, and it was censored on there.

[Ralphie]

^^^ LOL!

He is trying to circumvent the censor system....off with his head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Na but thats cool as hell. Scott should come in here and see this.

And props on your hiking budday...thats the way to do it.

[Pandemic]

Were there 9 more wars that I didn't hear about?

[visualpoet]

Were there 9 more wars that I didn't hear about?

lol, WW7 was a mother fucker!
The government sends out a ray that blocks memories of WW3-WW11 because they were so horrible we'd all go insane.

[deevergote]

Were there 9 more wars that I didn't hear about?

I was wondering if I'd be the first to say something about WW11! I wonder why they didn't say WWII... I mean, was their capital I key broken?

[Pandemic]

maybe they forgot a plus sign?