Thank you Post 10 for bringing this horrific crash site into the light. I don't remember anything about it, but then I was only 8 yrs old in 1963. I find it despicable for those who have damaged this hallowed ground & I hope they are ashamed for their actions, but I doubt it. It's like destroying or damaging a cemetary or battleground site.
Most people don't share your view on it unfortunately. I would personally clean it up as it is just polluting the environment. People die all the time, why would this be more special. That's basically the bottom line.
@@Drakey_Fenix and some of the fluids and carcinogenic chemicals are seeped out as the parts degrade. the thing that was “special” about this was that it was a b52 bomber aircraft that crashed some half a century ago. on another hand it Would have been better the parts are sent to different museums around the state instead of degrading and susceptible to robbery.
Great to go to on atvs and snowmobiles. Elephant mountain is beautiful. There is a book about it sold by moosehead marketplace on Facebook. They were working on the road this year. So much great stuff in the moosehead lake region
@@Drakey_Fenix I’m really surprised that they didn’t pick up all the pieces and instead just left it out to rot. That seems disrespectful to the environment and to the memorial itself. Those plane parts won’t be there forever. They will rust into scrap beyond recognition before long, ruining the point of the whole thing.
Where I come from it's "Take nothing but 'trinkets & keepsakes'. Leave nothing but the things you don't want anymore (ie. trash)" Not quite as catchy as yours though. ;)
reminds me of a C-130 crash that happened back in the early 90's in Morgan Co. WV 20 miles from where I grew up...My dad was still in the Air Force and knew some of the lost souls aboard that ill fated flight...I still get chills every time i visit Berkeley Springs...very respectful visit Post 10 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
We all know there's dumb @$$ people out there that don't care about anything but themselves carving out there names into stuff like that lol true story on that
Imagine how self absorbed those people must be. When they see a wreckage, a memorial to those who died in the crash, what they're thinking is "how can I make this about me".
Post 10, I know you are respectful everywhere you go, but thank you for being extra respectful because that is a grave site. I am an Air Force Veteran and my uncle (who I never got to meet) was on that plane. Awesome Job, brother!
I reckon they must've surreptitiously followed him there, then planted themselves on the route his hike was taking. Because Post 10 ain't walking by a blocked culvert wherever he is, period. ;)
@@Jacobtheunwise Did you not read the sign near the beginning of the video? ( at 1:09) the wreckage had previously been removed and then it was put back to create the memorial... Regardless it's still extremely disrespectful to vandalize a memorial!
I was a B-52H crew chief for 8 years, so this video hits pretty close to home. I've been to a crash site when I was deployed to Guam, but I doubt I'd ever make it out to this one. Thank you for posting this video and for the respect you show to the site.
In El Paso, Texas, I would visit the plane crash site of a B-36 bomber. Myself and a park ranger made a dedication hike and installed a plaque with the names on the site of the crash. Praise to you for honoring those that crashed and sharing it with us.
The fact you get to explore these sites alone always amazes me. Wouldn’t matter where I went in the UK here its always packed with people. Really interesting though and made me read more about what happened. Thanks Post.
Steve, this is in a very remote part of Maine. It's about a 30 minute drive from Greenville, population like 1,500... and that's easily 1.5 hrs north of Bangor. Literally the "middle of nowhere". That's why there's so few people... though on holidays like the 4th or Memorial Day, there's usually a few boy scout troops or a bunch of Vets doing something. But the off days? Yeah, totally silent place to reflect.
thats one of the reasons i want to move from the UK to America, the population density is much lower especially in rural areas as well as a lot more places to explore and experience
I agree the UK is overcrowded, but it's still possible to be as isolated as on this video. Just choose your times. I've done a lot of 2/3 hour walks here in the south and not seen a soul. That's the beauty of the summer, light till 10pm and all the tourists head home at 5/6 pm. Plus, get yourself a map, so many footpaths....
Thanks for sharing. I was 10YO and living in East Longmeadow when the crash happened. I remember hearing about it but was too young to really understand what happened. Very glad to see the flags of remembrance, but ,I wish people had more respect.
This video touched my heart of the people that perished in this plane. They might have been on a training flight. The Vietnam war was going on in 1963. I enjoyed your video but it also saddened me.
they had to investigate the cause of the accident, so they had to take all the pieces they could find to labs. it was so completely out of the blue. Thankfully, they were already using the same grid system as archaeologists, and made a ton of photos, so they were able to put the pieces back for the memorial.
But why out essentially trash back into the nature?? Put flowers up, native ones, and trees, and benches maybe. But not the the airplane left to decompose, at least do it respectfully to nature..
Nice to see some footage of what it looks like in summer. I was there once on snowmobile in deep snow and not much beyond the cockpit was visible. Thank you
I had never heard of this plane crash. I looked it up and ended down a rabbit hole about the crashes of B-52's in the early 60's. Thanks for this video.
My brother and I drove up to Elephant Mountain about 15 years ago to visit this site. Wreckage and debris is still everywhere. Most amazing to me was the condition of the stainless steel fasteners on the engines - they still look brand new.
Thank you for your respect. On 24 January 1963 a United States Air Force Boeing B-52C Stratofortress with nine crew members on board lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting stresses during turbulence at low altitude and crashed on Elephant Mountain in Piscataquis County, Maine,
That was a huge moose! Im happy you finally got to see the b52 crash site. Thanks for documenting it ive only seen it by snowmobile when much of the wreckage is buried. Thx brutha
WOW. Thank you for sharing this. I didn't know anything about this crash. My dad faught in the United States army during WW2. So I have an immense interest in this time period. If anybody's wondering my dad married my mom when he was in his early fifties and she was in her mid twenties I was born in 79. It was always cool to have a dad that was older like that some of my friends when I got in the middle school called him grandpa but he didn't seem to mind. But the history of that time. Went in the my youth and if I wouldn't have had a dad from that time. It wouldn't have been as, well lets put it this way I wouldn't have been saturated in it as much. Now my grandfather my mom's dad he fought in the war as well but he was in the Navy out in the pacific. They're both deceased now so I guess I thought I'd mentioned that here. . thanks again post10
I was a navigator on B-52s 1954-1966 barely remember this crash, don't remember where i was stationed SAC moved members every3-4-6 months. I wouldn't be able to visit this place......I attended funerals at Arlington watching the family members receiving the folded US flag was heart breaking. The military does care about those who fall and their survivors
Thanks for sharing this with us. It's bothersome that sum ppl have no respect for the ppl that lost their lives. Carving their names is very disrespectful.
Your video reminded me, when I worked at a local Philadelphia newspaper in the ‘90s, I remember going to a New Jersey residential neighborhood (Florence) where there was a mid-air collision overhead. A small plane struck a larger one, and the falling wreckage of one burned down a new house. When I went to the neighborhood, I parked a few blocks away, and it was surreal to see plane parts in the residential streets. No survivors in the planes, but at least no one was home in the house at the time.
As a Californian I'm 99% positive is never ever see this memorial, so thank you for taking the time to film it and show respect to the soldiers that lost their lives
There’s one in England in the Peak District called Over Exposed, near Glossop Derbyshire. It’s about a 4 mile hike into the hills to see the crashed plane.
There's a great book called "Final Mission, The North Woods" which gives excellent history about the crew, the mission, the flight, the crash, rescue attempts, and the survivors. The book is an easy read and very reasonably priced on Amazon. I've been to the crash site, it's no small miracle anyone survived. Snow cover and temperatures in the Maine woods in late January can be life threatening on their own let alone trying to survive the impact of a 250 ton aircraft.
Hey post, do you think you would ever like to do a video on how you can tell in nature when something is old or new, how you can tell how old trees are or how long ago plants were damaged or if they are or aren’t growing back, etc.. Just things like outdoor awareness maybe I’m not sure what the term would be. I know I and so many of your watchers would love to see that and gain some of your knowledge!
i remember building the b52 stratofortress model as a kid. was impressed reading about it as they could fly with bullet holes in the wings, and pieces of it missing...must have taken a lot for this one to go down. was a huge plane!
I think there of lots of mosquitoes in his car... > I'd wager that he ran away to lure them and than ran back to his car... (Post10 did it just for a change in his video outros...)
I really enjoy these videos from out there in the woods, places I will unlikely ever to be visiting. Doesnt have to have a clog and flood in it, if it has some historic value such as this crash site (because everything related to the cold war era fascinates me).
Not NEARLY enough wreckage for an entire B-52; I'd say less than 5%. No wings, engines, cockpit and only a small portion of the fuselage. Apparently when they replaced it, they only put a representative sample back.
You described in an onscreen caption, that area of woodland as junk trees, not heard that term before. Myself I much prefer broadleaved woods to conifer /pine woodland, much more attractive in my view.
hey! i wish i knew you where in the area!! I love ATVing.. even teach the safety class in Maine.. and love going up here.. wow , great video ! awesome! a lot of the local ATV clubs do a trip to there.. it gets maintained and cared for .. road gets busy and they close it every once and while. PS Post 10 - this is mostly a road for ATVs, maintained by the local volunteer clubs.. very seasonal .. vehicles dont really go there. and we have a bad tick problem this year. .. u taking your vehicle this, is a bit funny, next time, i will take ya with the atv group.
We went there in the late 80's when the only way in was a 1 mile hike ,I went back 2 years ago and quite a bit of the plane has been taken away by scavengers , It is a shame there was so much more there back then
I know I would never see this if I wasn't for you going here and video taping this. You make it very interesting. Soooo sad to think of the lives that were lost. 😞 Thank you for sharing and showing everyone this place. Prayers 🙏 for the lost souls. P. S. I thought they took all the parts back to reconstruct and understand and know what happened. Or do they? I admit, not much on history or this.
Further reading: Wikipedia article on 1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 crash as well as other web sites. RIP USAF crew members. Surprised this much wreckage survived and that two of crew survived crash in middle of a Maine winter. Google Earth search of Elephant Mountain clearly shows wreckage against forest green background.
This debris looks curiously fresh. Hydraulic cylinders normally show rust and corrosion after half a century (yes, even “stainless” steel rusts given enough time). Debris is just sitting there. Ever been to an auto junk yard? Nothing just sits. It slowly sinks into the soil, at least partially.
Post 10, can you do some magnet fishing in some of the creeks and streams near the culverts you unclog? Or metal detecting on the trails you hike? Love your videos 💖from🇨🇦
i was far from being alive when this accident happened so i don’t know the complete history of it but from someone who loves aviation, the fact that people carve their names into the wreckage is just disgusting.
The B52 crash site is remarkable. Pity about the graffiti showing no respect. Near where I live (in Salford near Manchester UK) there is a crash site of a Lancaster bomber that crashed and exploded on 30th July 1944. It was part of the WW2 invasion of Europe after D-Day. The squadron of bombers had to turn back from a bombing run due to low cloud. They couldn't ditch their bombs in the English Chanel because of all the Allied ships, so they had to return to base in Lincolnshire. The "Salford" bomber (PB304) had to do a wide sweep which took it over Salford. It lost height and tried an emergency landing, but hit the river bank and exploded, killing its 7 man crew and 2 civilians on the ground. Every year we (The Friends of Salford Cemeteries Trust) hold a memorial Service on the nearest Sunday, around the memorial stone at the nearby Agecroft Cemetery. This year is in 1st August.
There is a very well executed Memorial for the crews of an Air force B-47 and B-52 that Went down years apart at The same location in northern Wisconsin. It I located off an RV / ATV trail near the File Flowage near Montreal Wisconsin. The covered Memorial includes an Engraved plaque of all Crew members names. A cockpit seat and aircraft Windshield are built into The shelter over the memorial Very moving and emotional To know these brave fliers Died for us on what were Routine training missions. Dangerous business flying A bomber.
Thank you Post 10 for bringing this horrific crash site into the light. I don't remember anything about it, but then I was only 8 yrs old in 1963. I find it despicable for those who have damaged this hallowed ground & I hope they are ashamed for their actions, but I doubt it. It's like destroying or damaging a cemetary or battleground site.
It’s trash, pollution and junk
Most people don't share your view on it unfortunately. I would personally clean it up as it is just polluting the environment. People die all the time, why would this be more special. That's basically the bottom line.
@@Drakey_Fenix and some of the fluids and carcinogenic chemicals are seeped out as the parts degrade. the thing that was “special” about this was that it was a b52 bomber aircraft that crashed some half a century ago.
on another hand it Would have been better the parts are sent to different museums around the state instead of degrading and susceptible to robbery.
Great to go to on atvs and snowmobiles. Elephant mountain is beautiful. There is a book about it sold by moosehead marketplace on Facebook. They were working on the road this year. So much great stuff in the moosehead lake region
@@Drakey_Fenix I’m really surprised that they didn’t pick up all the pieces and instead just left it out to rot. That seems disrespectful to the environment and to the memorial itself. Those plane parts won’t be there forever. They will rust into scrap beyond recognition before long, ruining the point of the whole thing.
Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.
Where I come from it's "Take nothing but 'trinkets & keepsakes'. Leave nothing but the things you don't want anymore (ie. trash)"
Not quite as catchy as yours though.
;)
@@5amH45lam Where do you come from that has that horrid mentality?
I guess in that place it says
“Leave every United States flag you got sticking in a plane”
@@UnknownUnknown-nd6ho nothing wrong with that? There wasn’t a whole lot anyway.
@@smilemore1997
I swear that’s more flags I’ve seen my entire life
It’s like polluting the environment with flags
reminds me of a C-130 crash that happened back in the early 90's in Morgan Co. WV 20 miles from where I grew up...My dad was still in the Air Force and knew some of the lost souls aboard that ill fated flight...I still get chills every time i visit Berkeley Springs...very respectful visit Post 10 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
I wish people wouldnt carve their names in stuff like that.
Or shoot them.
We all know there's dumb @$$ people out there that don't care about anything but themselves carving out there names into stuff like that lol true story on that
Mostly urban morons, probably from Massachusetts.
If I was among the dead, I'd be flattered.
Post 10 left his vehicle & returned to the wild never to be seen or heard from again :P
The mosquitoes drove him nuts!
Rake's day off. Beavers taking advantage..........
He saw the calamity covert and then had a heart attack due to fear and stress
Hahahahaha! Nice.
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Such disrespect of those individuals who decided it what be "fun" to carve their name or initials into the pieces of the wreckage.
Imagine how self absorbed those people must be. When they see a wreckage, a memorial to those who died in the crash, what they're thinking is "how can I make this about me".
Sometimes other pilots will put there names on crashed planes
The fact any remains are left is amazing to me. surprised morbid collectors have not removed anything nailed down.
humans are the worst.
I'm just surprised that there hasn't been more vandalism and pieces taken away.
My husband was Air Force too. He knew some of these people. He is probably reunited with them now because he died last May.
Sorry for your lose
@UCJdUdT5UzaSFzNasXuJx53g stfu and show some respect kid.
Post 10, I know you are respectful everywhere you go, but thank you for being extra respectful because that is a grave site. I am an Air Force Veteran and my uncle (who I never got to meet) was on that plane. Awesome Job, brother!
Thank you for your service, and I'm sorry for your loss. Here's hoping that crashes like this become less and less likely in the future. 🙏
What is amazing is that he went to a memorial site and still managed to find clogged culverts
Someday there will be a Post 10 memorial. "No son, leave that culvert clogged".
I reckon they must've surreptitiously followed him there, then planted themselves on the route his hike was taking. Because Post 10 ain't walking by a blocked culvert wherever he is, period. ;)
Glad I wasn't the only one impressed by that 😅
And a moose
@Adam Statham till you find a snake- then that practice ceases
I just googled this and found out that 2 survived. Amazing considering the damage and the terrain. Thanks for sharing!
It also says such on the black plaque on the first large piece of cabin is the video.
They survived by ejecting. The terrain has nothing to do with it, they were not in the plane when it hit the ground.
@@cassidywest5539 that's not what was said. Read it again please
And the sub-0°F temperatures too! 🥶
There was a reunion with the rescuers and survivors on the 50th anniversary , the local snowmobile club went and found the site when it happened
The fact that people carve their names into the wreckage is disgusting
Edit: spelling
Do you actually mean disgusting?
(Not critizing, but sometimes autocorrect or mistyping happens...)
The Prince of Tides was neither about princes nor tides, discuss.
@@Jacobtheunwise Did you not read the sign near the beginning of the video? ( at 1:09) the wreckage had previously been removed and then it was put back to create the memorial...
Regardless it's still extremely disrespectful to vandalize a memorial!
what do they be saying?
@@SpudderRail it’s extremely disrespectful to pollute the ground with all rubber
I picked a great time to start binging Post 10 videos with all these new vids coming out
I was a B-52H crew chief for 8 years, so this video hits pretty close to home. I've been to a crash site when I was deployed to Guam, but I doubt I'd ever make it out to this one. Thank you for posting this video and for the respect you show to the site.
In El Paso, Texas, I would visit the plane crash site of a B-36 bomber. Myself and a park ranger made a dedication hike and installed a plaque with the names on the site of the crash. Praise to you for honoring those that crashed and sharing it with us.
The fact you get to explore these sites alone always amazes me. Wouldn’t matter where I went in the UK here its always packed with people. Really interesting though and made me read more about what happened. Thanks Post.
I know what you mean, poeple jogging, walking dogs,iron men on their expensive bikes,poeple riding horses and keen walkers.
Steve, this is in a very remote part of Maine. It's about a 30 minute drive from Greenville, population like 1,500... and that's easily 1.5 hrs north of Bangor.
Literally the "middle of nowhere".
That's why there's so few people... though on holidays like the 4th or Memorial Day, there's usually a few boy scout troops or a bunch of Vets doing something.
But the off days? Yeah, totally silent place to reflect.
@@LuciferTJ yeah I guess I lose track of the scale in that part of the world. Would love to go some day.
thats one of the reasons i want to move from the UK to America, the population density is much lower especially in rural areas as well as a lot more places to explore and experience
I agree the UK is overcrowded, but it's still possible to be as isolated as on this video. Just choose your times. I've done a lot of 2/3 hour walks here in the south and not seen a soul. That's the beauty of the summer, light till 10pm and all the tourists head home at 5/6 pm. Plus, get yourself a map, so many footpaths....
Thanks for sharing. I was 10YO and living in East Longmeadow when the crash happened. I remember hearing about it but was too young to really understand what happened. Very glad to see the flags of remembrance, but ,I wish people had more respect.
What a nice little memorial. It's a shame people carve their names into it.
Also, B52s are so cool.
Nice vid Post! I’m a maintainer on the B-52 up in North Dakota! It’s a hell of a plane!!
She is a sweet ride!
Thanks for your service Jacob.
Thank you to whomever respectfully placed the flags there. Never even knew this crash happened. Thank you, Post.
Thanks for taking us to all these places we have never seen or heard of
This video touched my heart of the people that perished in this plane.
They might have been on a training flight.
The Vietnam war was going on in 1963.
I enjoyed your video but it also saddened me.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Elephant_Mountain_B-52_crash
@@joshuaguenin9507 Thank you for additional information Joshua.
@@joshuaguenin9507 incredible that 2 people survived this
Wait so they took the wreckage out. Then just brought it back and dumped it. Idk kinda ruins the whole point. Still. Looks like a nice hike
they had to investigate the cause of the accident, so they had to take all the pieces they could find to labs. it was so completely out of the blue. Thankfully, they were already using the same grid system as archaeologists, and made a ton of photos, so they were able to put the pieces back for the memorial.
@@minigolfkid ohhh, thanks for the details. I was wondering about that detail and wondered how they decided where stuff was put back.
its a huge memorial plus tourist and local spot, gets closed from time to time, but its a great memorial and reminder. and a good back story
But why out essentially trash back into the nature?? Put flowers up, native ones, and trees, and benches maybe. But not the the airplane left to decompose, at least do it respectfully to nature..
@@annem1816 there’s not a lot wrong with putting the plane back besides the rubber wheels.
Nice to see some footage of what it looks like in summer. I was there once on snowmobile in deep snow and not much beyond the cockpit was visible. Thank you
Thank you for sharing this! I used to hear about the crash from family and friends in the area. I never knew the wreckage was left there!
POV: you get an upload from post10 notification while watching a post10 video. 😍😍😍
Fascinating video, 1963. Well preserved. RIP YEALL
I've never heard of a crash recovery where plane parts were brought back to the site. Odd. Pilot and co-pilot lived, 7 others crew perished.
Amazing video, thank you for showing!!! The sunset in the background was beautiful!!! ♥️
I had never heard of this plane crash. I looked it up and ended down a rabbit hole about the crashes of B-52's in the early 60's. Thanks for this video.
You travel everywhere! That wreckage is on Elephant mountain near Greenville. I'm about 40 miles south of Greenville near Dover-Foxcroft.
I bet post 10 could fly a plane , haven't seen anything yet he couldn't do
Could you organize a clean up of the park drains? Like a volunteer group.
Did the mosquitos jack your ride at the end.🤣😂🤣
My brother and I drove up to Elephant Mountain about 15 years ago to visit this site. Wreckage and debris is still everywhere. Most amazing to me was the condition of the stainless steel fasteners on the engines - they still look brand new.
Thank you for your respect.
On 24 January 1963 a United States Air Force Boeing B-52C Stratofortress with nine crew members on board lost its vertical stabilizer due to buffeting stresses during turbulence at low altitude and crashed on Elephant Mountain in Piscataquis County, Maine,
I've snowmobiled up to this crash site on these trails. I was staying at Forks, Maine. Nice seeing it w/out snow.
That was a huge moose! Im happy you finally got to see the b52 crash site. Thanks for documenting it ive only seen it by snowmobile when much of the wreckage is buried. Thx brutha
WOW. Thank you for sharing this. I didn't know anything about this crash. My dad faught in the United States army during WW2. So I have an immense interest in this time period.
If anybody's wondering my dad married my mom when he was in his early fifties and she was in her mid twenties I was born in 79. It was always cool to have a dad that was older like that some of my friends when I got in the middle school called him grandpa but he didn't seem to mind. But the history of that time. Went in the my youth and if I wouldn't have had a dad from that time. It wouldn't have been as, well lets put it this way I wouldn't have been saturated in it as much. Now my grandfather my mom's dad he fought in the war as well but he was in the Navy out in the pacific. They're both deceased now so I guess I thought I'd mentioned that here.
. thanks again post10
Awesome. I got the same sort of feeling watching this video as when I visited the Flight 93 Memorial a couple summers ago.
Horseflies were my faaaaaaaaavorite thing when I was summer camping in Maine. Absolute. Treat.
I was a navigator on B-52s 1954-1966 barely remember this crash, don't remember where i was stationed SAC moved members every3-4-6 months. I wouldn't be able to visit this place......I attended funerals at Arlington watching the family members receiving the folded US flag was heart breaking. The military does care about those who fall and their survivors
Thanks for sharing this with us.
It's bothersome that sum ppl have no respect for the ppl that lost their lives.
Carving their names is very disrespectful.
Your video reminded me, when I worked at a local Philadelphia newspaper in the ‘90s, I remember going to a New Jersey residential neighborhood (Florence) where there was a mid-air collision overhead. A small plane struck a larger one, and the falling wreckage of one burned down a new house. When I went to the neighborhood, I parked a few blocks away, and it was surreal to see plane parts in the residential streets. No survivors in the planes, but at least no one was home in the house at the time.
This reminds me of one of my favorite hikes. Van Wick in the catskills has 2 plane crashes on its ridge. One is a jet!
Well done. For the people who might not otherwise ever get a chance to walk this sacred ground, thank you for making this effort.
As a Californian I'm 99% positive is never ever see this memorial, so thank you for taking the time to film it and show respect to the soldiers that lost their lives
There’s one in England in the Peak District called Over Exposed, near Glossop Derbyshire. It’s about a 4 mile hike into the hills to see the crashed plane.
What sort of plane is it?
Thanks for doing this video. Such respect for the fallen.
How do you come up with all of your ideas?
thanks for taking us on this post10, a beautiful monument
How bout some history on this flight?
It’s origin, it’s crew, what happened? Why’d they remove it then bring it back?
There's a great book called "Final Mission, The North Woods" which gives excellent history about the crew, the mission, the flight, the crash, rescue attempts, and the survivors. The book is an easy read and very reasonably priced on Amazon. I've been to the crash site, it's no small miracle anyone survived. Snow cover and temperatures in the Maine woods in late January can be life threatening on their own let alone trying to survive the impact of a 250 ton aircraft.
Hey post, do you think you would ever like to do a video on how you can tell in nature when something is old or new, how you can tell how old trees are or how long ago plants were damaged or if they are or aren’t growing back, etc.. Just things like outdoor awareness maybe I’m not sure what the term would be. I know I and so many of your watchers would love to see that and gain some of your knowledge!
Thanks! Very informative.
Post 10 thanks for all these great adventures you take us on , your a special guy
Its so hard to imagine anyone survived this
Some of them had ejection seats. But they still had a rough go of it
i remember building the b52 stratofortress model as a kid. was impressed reading about it as they could fly with bullet holes in the wings, and pieces of it missing...must have taken a lot for this one to go down. was a huge plane!
THANK YOU POST 10! Great video and beautiful sky's! Hope everything is good after running away.
Very interesting visit. We were once in Gander, New Foundland with a similar crash with military troops coming home from service. Very moving.
Thank you for sharing this.
I give thanks to those who gave all for my country.
Stay safe everyone. Get vaccinated 🍻
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This was fascinating! I googled the crash and read all about it
What were you running for at the very end?
I think there of lots of mosquitoes in his car...
> I'd wager that he ran away to lure them and than ran back to his car...
(Post10 did it just for a change in his video outros...)
He looked in his rear view and saw the silhouette of a DOT inspector in his back seat
I’ve been there a few times on snowmobile. It gives you an indescribable feeling looking at it.
Thanks for uploading Post that was really interesting, cheers mate
Wow. Two survived after parachuting out. 1 just passed about 5 years ago
I really enjoy these videos from out there in the woods, places I will unlikely ever to be visiting. Doesnt have to have a clog and flood in it, if it has some historic value such as this crash site (because everything related to the cold war era fascinates me).
hey post, in regards to the infamouse lake drain, how much of the flow do you think is actually going through the pipe?
100 percent is entering the pipe at some point and leaving but maybe 10 percent is not entering in the right spot
Nice profile picture 👍
Will there be a follow up? Where were you running towards?
I thought it would be a good outro, so many questions it left
@@post.10 Then for sure it was a good outro! Everybody is going to watch your next one!
Not NEARLY enough wreckage for an entire B-52; I'd say less than 5%. No wings, engines, cockpit and only a small portion of the fuselage. Apparently when they replaced it, they only put a representative sample back.
I went there in the 80's scavengers have removed a lot of what was there
Thanks for the tour and information.
You described in an onscreen caption, that area of woodland as junk trees, not heard that term before. Myself I much prefer broadleaved woods to conifer /pine woodland, much more attractive in my view.
hey! i wish i knew you where in the area!! I love ATVing.. even teach the safety class in Maine.. and love going up here.. wow , great video ! awesome! a lot of the local ATV clubs do a trip to there.. it gets maintained and cared for .. road gets busy and they close it every once and while. PS Post 10 - this is mostly a road for ATVs, maintained by the local volunteer clubs.. very seasonal .. vehicles dont really go there. and we have a bad tick problem this year. .. u taking your vehicle this, is a bit funny, next time, i will take ya with the atv group.
Wow that sunset at the end 😍
We went there in the late 80's when the only way in was a 1 mile hike ,I went back 2 years ago and quite a bit of the plane has been taken away by scavengers , It is a shame there was so much more there back then
I know I would never see this if I wasn't for you going here and video taping this. You make it very interesting. Soooo sad to think of the lives that were lost. 😞
Thank you for sharing and showing everyone this place. Prayers 🙏 for the lost souls.
P. S. I thought they took all the parts back to reconstruct and understand and know what happened. Or do they? I admit, not much on history or this.
Further reading: Wikipedia article on 1963 Elephant Mountain B-52 crash as well as other web sites. RIP USAF crew members.
Surprised this much wreckage survived and that two of crew survived crash in middle of a Maine winter.
Google Earth search of Elephant Mountain clearly shows wreckage against forest green background.
Another interesting video, thanks for posting 😊
Love your videos and I don’t completely know why lolol keep it coming though!
Fascinating debris field.💚💚
WOW. I never knew about this.
i never know how you stay this beautiful.
Damn that blue sky is amazing
Up the ol Prong Pond Rd!
Love that area of the state. Welcome! :)
Thanks for posting 😁🇬🇧
Great video thank you for sharing great footage great peace of history.. I wonder what happened to the plane
Looks like a beautiful afternoon
Interesting Video,
Thanks for showing us this Post 10...😃👍🇬🇧
The way that moose was looking at you your probably the first human it's ever seen!
they out number the people here 3 to 1
What a cool crash site. Thanks for sharing!
This debris looks curiously fresh. Hydraulic cylinders normally show rust and corrosion after half a century (yes, even “stainless” steel rusts given enough time). Debris is just sitting there. Ever been to an auto junk yard? Nothing just sits. It slowly sinks into the soil, at least partially.
You had me at "clogged culvert pipe"...
Awesome! Love these kind of videos
Post 10, can you do some magnet fishing in some of the creeks and streams near the culverts you unclog? Or metal detecting on the trails you hike? Love your videos 💖from🇨🇦
Keep the content coming love the unclogged videos
How do you know which roads to stay off of because trucks may be logging ? Thanks for the B52 vid.
i was far from being alive when this accident happened so i don’t know the complete history of it but from someone who loves aviation, the fact that people carve their names into the wreckage is just disgusting.
The B52 crash site is remarkable. Pity about the graffiti showing no respect. Near where I live (in Salford near Manchester UK) there is a crash site of a Lancaster bomber that crashed and exploded on 30th July 1944. It was part of the WW2 invasion of Europe after D-Day. The squadron of bombers had to turn back from a bombing run due to low cloud. They couldn't ditch their bombs in the English Chanel because of all the Allied ships, so they had to return to base in Lincolnshire. The "Salford" bomber (PB304) had to do a wide sweep which took it over Salford. It lost height and tried an emergency landing, but hit the river bank and exploded, killing its 7 man crew and 2 civilians on the ground. Every year we (The Friends of Salford Cemeteries Trust) hold a memorial Service on the nearest Sunday, around the memorial stone at the nearby Agecroft Cemetery. This year is in 1st August.
There is a very well executed
Memorial for the crews of an
Air force B-47 and B-52 that
Went down years apart at
The same location in northern
Wisconsin. It I located off an
RV / ATV trail near the File
Flowage near Montreal
Wisconsin. The covered
Memorial includes an
Engraved plaque of all
Crew members names.
A cockpit seat and aircraft
Windshield are built into
The shelter over the memorial
Very moving and emotional
To know these brave fliers
Died for us on what were
Routine training missions.
Dangerous business flying
A bomber.
The Counterstrike player in me immediately read the title as "B-site".
I should go outside and touch grass :)
Good man, grass is friendly.
go outside and smoke grass ;)
Touch and goes. Daily training on how to abort a landing. Everyday we trained with touch and goes. Or (with my F-111) practice bombing sorties.
You really need a pickup truck . Nice video thankx for sharing.
even when he's "off duty", he's on duty! gotta keep those culverts clear.
Wow…. How do I look this up on Google maps?