Originally I was just planning this as a casual running vlog for my new channel: www.youtube.com/@runwithstevetoday . I've seen crash sites before and usually there's very little left, they are not very interesting and it's hard to get information. This one astonished me as there's a huge amount of wreckage and scattered over a very large area. The fact this plane took part in Operation Crossroads makes it even more poignant as these were tests that took the world further to the brink of nuclear war. Or some might argue, led to the nuclear stalemate of mutually assured destruction that has held the world in relative peace since WWII. I wish I'd had more time to research and get more info for this video but it was a last minute run at the end of a busy day, here's a bit more info with a link for reading more. Boeing 'RB-29A 44-61999 was part of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division in the Strategic Air Command of USAF. The aircraft bore the name Over Exposed after it was flown in July 1946 by the 509th Composite Group during Operation Crossroads to photograph nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, including the dropping of an atomic bomb by B-29 Superfortress Dave's Dream. The aircraft had also taken part in the Berlin airlift during 1948.[1][2] The aircraft crashed at Higher Shelf Stones on the Bleaklow moorland plateau near Glossop in Derbyshire on 3 November 1948. The aircraft was on a routine daytime flight with two other aircraft, leaving RAF Scampton near Lincoln at about 10:15 and heading to the US Air Force base at Burtonwood near Warrington. The pilot Captain Landon Tanner and co-pilot Captain Harry Stroud were flying by instruments as the area was covered in low cloud. Based on the flight time, the crew believed it had passed the hills and began to descend. At about 11:00 the aircraft hit the ground at 610m above sea level, 300m north east of the summit of Higher Shelf Stones and it was engulfed in flames.[2][3][4] All 11 crew and 2 military passengers perished in the crash SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleaklow_Bomber
There is a Blenheim crash site less than a mile and a half away to the NNW with wreckage left www.google.com/maps/place/Blenheim+Mk.I+L1476+Crash+Site/@53.4646649,-1.8705383,2403m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x487bcd267b0c3419:0x772de5cc8c5f030f!2sHigher+Shelf+Stones!8m2!3d53.449768!4d-1.867547!16s%2Fg%2F11fml8fpdb!3m5!1s0x487bcfcc4104d6b1:0xad32d09353831a9e!8m2!3d53.4697345!4d-1.8764094!16s%2Fg%2F11nnm0b5yk?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEyNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
So glad to hear how well prepared you are. I live in the Highlands of Scotland and every year people die in the mountains locally. Satellite PRB's are not exactly cheap, but what price your life if you get seriously lost and/or injured, especially in winter. Also people wear camouflage gear! The last guy to die near me wasn't found for weeks despite mountain rescue passing within a couple of hundred yards of where he fell and broke his leg. His grey trousers and green jacket blended perfectly with the rock and scrub!
Really enjoyed this adventure Stephen. A deep RIP to my American brothers... Always wondered what the Peat District looked like and wow, what an amazing place. Thank you!
That video made me laugh, and almost cry, at the same time. excellent work brother, that was a great video. I love your upbeat personality, and a character to boot. I used to love to get muddy and run in the rain jumping puddles and love the smell of grass and dirt . HAPPY DAYS ✌️
More interested in the wreckage than the running (sorry), so glad you posted it on this channel. Also nice to see that visitors are still leaving poppies.
There was quite a bit more of her to see when we went up to visit the site but that was back in 2006. We had not long returned from SCUBA diving at Bikini Atoll, the dive trip of a lifetime, so it made sense to go see the plane which had shot that famous piece of film. You didn't mention why she crashed - it was basically lazy flying/pilot error. SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) for flying in low cloud was to approach your landing area at a sufficiently high altitude to avoid the highest ground on your route and then circle when your navigator calculated you had arrived losing height gradually until the runway was in sight for a landing. OverExposure's pilot knew his route well having flown it countless times during their posting to their Lincolnshire base so on this, a routine flight to Burtonwood near Warrington for collection of mail and supplies, instead of continuing at altitude and then circling, instead he commenced a long, slow descent into where he thought the airfield should be. The problem was that without realising it they had encountered strong headwinds on the east side of the Pennines and were therefore not far enough to the west to commence a descent safely. They narrowly missed an even higher part of the Pennine range above the Snake but still impacted with the ground and broke up completely. On a resupply run of this nature it was normal for the aircraft to be crewed minimally with only the pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and navigator, however their base in Lincolnshire was rather spartan so the chance to visit Burtonwood, which was an enormous USAAF base with literally all the comforts of home, meant that the entire crew and extra passengers were onboard for the chance of some fun downtime. Unfortunately it cost them their lives. If you want to see our article on the disaster together with our photographs taken 18 years ago then visit...www.jarrelook.co.uk/Urbex.htm and scroll down to the B29 Crash Site report thumbnail.
So envious Stephen. A motorbike accident ended my running days & now pretty much even my walking days 😢 I'd love to be able to do what you experience. 🌟
Interesting video, now that I'm getting up in years all my friends who were runners have major injuries from it, running is quick but hard on your body long term. Enjoy it while you can.
I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this filming in the last few seconds, where you are speaking extremely high and funny, has absolutely made my day. Thank you so much I’ll go hiking with you anytime as long as I can sit in my comfortable chair. Thanks.
My home town glossop and got dragged over all those moors as a child ,love it now though 😅 yep trail running is a form of condensed walk also makes you focus more on where you put your feet 😊
Thank you for taking the time and the effort to let us know about this crash. The title of this video is a bit misleading however. The plane may have been involved in some atomic testing, but had nothing to do with crashing years and thousands of miles away in bad weather. I’ve spent time on a crashed B29 in Alaska in Moses Point up by Nome. It was going to Russia as part of our lend lease WW2 support against Germany. Also over half of this presentation is about running and after over six minutes of it I fast forwarded to the 11 min to catch the subject I expected.
@@sqwidink1 I agree but I can barely walk nowadays - struggle to get from my bed to my indoor wheelchair to my outdoor wheelchair...but still I believe, if possible (& sadly it isn't for _me_ anymore) horseriding is the best form of leisure transport / travel...ever. (apart from, perhaps, a really comfortable, safe, well maintained & fuelled vehicle of some description!)
Love it up there, can get very busy in summer with people going to the crash site, a lot end up getting rescued as being lost or I'll prepared. There are numerous wrecks up there too. Great vid as always.
brilliant as ever Stephen, you captured the atmosphere of the place perfectly. I have been there a couple of times, albeit in better weather, but it is an amazing site.
I'm not a runner but a mountainbiker (the downhill type) but I salute anyone who gets out there and does what our bodies were meant to do: roam the earth on our own power - because it is awesome! 🤠 And loving the bonus of visiting a historic site, learning about that plane and its crew. Thats what made me click on the video.
Great video Stephen. My uncle died in a plane crash just south of Penrith April 1945 returning from a training run in a very similar and tragic loss. Very sad. On a lighter note: you’re still a big child at heart! What’s your running shoes as they must be easily cleaned 😁
Something especially tragic about deaths happening during training. My running shoes need hosed off after runs like this. They are an old pair of Salomon wildcross
Great and interesting video for something you described as being much easier to produce than one that would normally go on this channel. IMO not every video has to be super high stress for you, this one was every bit as informative and entertaining as any other that I've seen from you. Thanks!
They should of made this a memorial site. In Canada, we had the Sabena plane crash , Newfoundland, debris is still there and a memorial site / Cemetery.
Well done Stephen, they just get better and better. I’ve been lost up there too, until I worked out that I have a compass on my iPhone! I was walking from the southern start point of the Pennine Way at Edale, (great pub!) up to the Snake pass , and back. Didn’t know about the crash site not far over the main road. That has annoyed me a bit. Need to go back. Do it right. Pity about the mist. Standard conditions. These vids are really good. Keep it up. The vids I mean.
2:20 for once I’m a little disappointed Stephen 😂 missed a wonderful opportunity there! “Anyone who says differently is selling something” Dread Pirate Roberts/Wesley Great vid as always 👌
That is a very impressive crash site, with still a lot of remnants in place. And eventhough you were 'just' trailrunning there, you managed to get a couple of great shots there. The moody weather kinda helped too I guess, as that site will look totally different in sunlight with a blue sky.
Thanks for sharing this even though it was intended for your running channel. Yea we love the production quality of your videos but more so, we tune in for the adventure and entertainment factor. Happy running!
I'm so pleased you posted this here, as I totally forgot you started a separate running channel, and this type of video is probably the main reason I follow you. So thanks for the reminder, now subbed to your running channel too!! 😊
That was great, Stephen! You are always so joyously hyper when you go trail running. Interesting what you were saying about "if this was a main channel video...research...", because I was sat here waiting for all the background to the plane and crash, waiting for the story, that you always tell so well. You told us some, but it left me wanting more.
Love that part of country side. At first I was like I wish you had gone on a nicer day. But then your footage of the crash site was absolutely perfect. They need to designate it a grave site ! Sadly people have been steeling bits of the plane. Loved the video thanks for making this Steve
Very similar to the sight on Black Mountain in Wales. There's the wreck of a Wellington bomber that crashed in similar circumstances. It's been left exactly as it was the day it crashed. There's significant parts of the airframe there, including entire wing sections.
Brilliant Steve. I am really looking forward to you getting the UA-cam 100K subscriber plaque in the not too distant future. It will be so well deserved. Best wishes from an Ulsterman in Murcia, Spain.
My dad was USAF in the early fifties on a B-29 group and died young his brother was Army and and said that they flew through the clouds to test the survivability of the aircraft and crew I don’t think my mom knew my uncle was on the ground at a site also and died young please be respectful of these crash sites they were sons,brothers and dad’s . Thank you for the video I think of them every time I’m waiting while filling my car with gas I think one of those planes could empty a gas station
I have never been a runner. I have had a lifetime of rubbish knees and am due now to have replacements done. Years ago I did do quite a bit of hill walking which I loved, however those days are now long gone. 😞I still get out camping , bushcrafting and canoeing as often as possible, which I love. This video was wonderful to watch. I am an avid aviation geek and into military history, so this was fascinating. I knew a little about this tragic crash, but had never seen any of the site. Good to see the memorial and tributes up there. By the way...your squeaky voice ending was truly inspired!! 😂 All in all, a highly entertaining video. Thank you. 😊
Been to a B29 crash site up in Scotland Stephen, like that site, there is tons of wreckage, probably due to the size of the aircraft. I rode past one not far from Dalry, where you were on the bike recently, I'd stopped before so didn't bother this time as I was riding in a monsoon.. Very little wreckage there but a nice wee granite memorial in the dry stone wall. Next to a house called Brockloch Tower on the Dalry to Ayr road, it would have been almost completely cleared due to its proximity to the road. Have a look at BBC NI news, they have dug up some wreckage on Sawel Mountain in the Sperrins last few days. I hunted for that wreck twice and failed to find it. Grumman Hellcat I think. I also ran up to one on Agnew's Hill?? near your neck of the woods I think.
The squeaky voice was a cool addition. Good vid m8. It would be considererate & nice for anyone visiting to bring respect & lay it at the site in the way of flowers .
Hi Stephen been busy with life and family, and just playing catch up, I've seen this place a couple of times and it gets me every time, very spooky place to be, especially on your own, when it looks just like the weather they would have been flying in, we'll it's definitely not a flop . And I love watching camping and a bit of running and learning about most things, just one person missing you should have took are GARY, he would loved the weather. Take care as always and see you soon. Alan 💯👍🇺🇲🙏
Great video, thanks. You are lucky you didnt find the "bleaklow beast" that we have been warned about, apparently theres some waist deep peat bog patches just off the Pennine way!
Brilliant video Stephen - I've seen other videos of that crash site but that was a really good look around. The atmospheric conditions suited the sombre subject. 👍🏻
I agree on the trail running thing, it's a nice walk, but quicker! 👍 How's the Harrier jacket holding up? I've just bought one and am very impressed on the first few uses!
I just watched another video of a Superfortress that crashed in Newfoundland Canada. The wreckage remains just as it did when it crashed 70 or so years ago. The entire crew was lost then too and because the forest was so thick and the fire so hot they couldn't recover all the United States of Americas soldiers bodies. I believe eight out of eleven US Soldiers bodies were recovered. Chech it out, please. *🙏🏻We must never forget their sacrifices🇺🇸*
My father was a USAAF B-29 navigator 1944-1945. He died in 2016 age 94. He saved - and I have - his original flight jacket with squadron insignia. It is possible/likely that he flew missions in this plane (_Over Exposed_ 44-61999). At that time he was part of the 1st Reconnaissance Group and the aircraft was designated as a F-13 variant later changed after the war to RB-29.
That’s a devastating and eerie site, tragic. I spent the last few years running to plane crash sites in my backyard, Eryri. A mix of fascination and horror at each location. This has been a very good video, thanks. Have you got the Derbyshire peat stain out of your feet yet? It was always a sign I’d had a good few days running around the moors. I also had to get used to the funny looks I got at the swimming pool. Who makes the running jacket? I like the idea of the double zip for extra ventilation - I get so bloody hot running, even in the cold.
@@dewindoethdwl2798 I use the socks to make peat tea now. 😂 It’s a harrier Trail running jacket, Derbyshire based company too! Great for colder weather
I’m with you there…on both ones I love hiking and trail running is fun….while still living in the city I tried going trail running but it required a lot of time…but I loved running through paths with roots and just it was fun the landscape was changing…I had to reverse back to road running as had no time to travel to hills…but I’m hoping once my foot heals get to trail running finally as we live out of the city now with less hills around 😅 but more nature like places 👏 I’ve got once lost in close by hills exactly in these sort of conditions which came during the day and I was on the top of the hill very flat one…I was going in circles for hours until I heard voices and finally found a rout….it was a learning experience! 😬 this was really interesting…I’m surprised so much is still there…it makes one think of a story behind and trying to picture them flying and crashing…😢 plus the creepy atmosphere in such weather 👏
You only get lost in those kind of conditions once. Happened me once too. Now I always make sure to have offline maps, battery pack and often even a map and compass
Yea on snake pass then follow up the path and round to the trig point and u shall see it :) but most people need to be warned its not an easy thing to go to and easy to get lost on bleaklow area!
Our 4 engine Martin Mars waterbombers were powered by the same Wright Cyclone R-3350 engine as the destroyed examples at that 1948 crash site. They made an awesome sound
I can't believe all that debris is all just sitting about there after all this time. That's crazy. How/why is it not in a museum or been collected to avoid being taken. And that leads on to how has it not been taken in all these years?! Obviously a good thing, but in this day and age, I'm surprised there's anything left.
It's a very good idea not to move pieces of an historical relic around, as it can make future archaeology more difficult. (These pieces of metal may flap around a good bit, so it's slightly less important but still not a bad idea to avoid moving them)
"I have offline maps and battery backups for offline maps" my guy, have you considered a compass and printed & laminated topo maps? A good compass would keep you oriented too when climbing in and out of those ditches.
I regularly carry map and compass as backup. Most people never will though, so it’s easier to encourage people to use offline maps and make sure their phone is charged up.
More than 250 crash site in that area including v1 doodle bug helicopters and a red arrow. Within 300 metres of the b29 wreckages of a Dakota and a Lancaster can be found.
a new subscriber effective this date and time per your channel I guess these are now referred to. Having spent considerable time inand around the UK, and the other nearby nations, I was a little surprised at how much of the wreckage actually remains. The prop hub having had probably the last remaining prop blade on it, was more than likely the target of some Ebay souvenir hunter / sellor. seen that done a time or three for US Western history items and UK items though much more infrequent due to laws enacted to thwart such occurences. The cold damp miserable constant wet adds to the foreboding atmospheere of something tragic having happened so long ago.To the casual outside observor, most wouldn't even know of any of this were it not for your efforts, time and energy placed into the making of it all , none of this would be told and the memories of those who were on board that flight that fateful fogged over day, would long since be forgotten. You speak for them. You speak for all of those whose voices were suddenly and with tragic results were cut off in mid-sentence. You speak to and for , all of us. I respectfully salute you sir. In our military, we use the two word phrase of Bravo Zulu to indicate and signify a job, or task, well done. BRAVO ZULU You earned this one. 9th Infantry 7th Special Forces Group Combat Medic Vietnam 72-75 US Army. *Salute*
I think they were beginning their descent but as with a lot of early aviation accidents they miscalculated where on their journey they were. They must have thought they had passed the moorland hills already.
My local fave spot to visit. Lot of inst turds have been taking pieces as souvenirs recently unfortunately 😢 Remember being up there in a snowstorm at night up there, was a tiny bit creepy that time ha!
Originally I was just planning this as a casual running vlog for my new channel: www.youtube.com/@runwithstevetoday . I've seen crash sites before and usually there's very little left, they are not very interesting and it's hard to get information. This one astonished me as there's a huge amount of wreckage and scattered over a very large area. The fact this plane took part in Operation Crossroads makes it even more poignant as these were tests that took the world further to the brink of nuclear war. Or some might argue, led to the nuclear stalemate of mutually assured destruction that has held the world in relative peace since WWII.
I wish I'd had more time to research and get more info for this video but it was a last minute run at the end of a busy day, here's a bit more info with a link for reading more.
Boeing 'RB-29A 44-61999 was part of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division in the Strategic Air Command of USAF. The aircraft bore the name Over Exposed after it was flown in July 1946 by the 509th Composite Group during Operation Crossroads to photograph nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll, including the dropping of an atomic bomb by B-29 Superfortress Dave's Dream. The aircraft had also taken part in the Berlin airlift during 1948.[1][2]
The aircraft crashed at Higher Shelf Stones on the Bleaklow moorland plateau near Glossop in Derbyshire on 3 November 1948. The aircraft was on a routine daytime flight with two other aircraft, leaving RAF Scampton near Lincoln at about 10:15 and heading to the US Air Force base at Burtonwood near Warrington. The pilot Captain Landon Tanner and co-pilot Captain Harry Stroud were flying by instruments as the area was covered in low cloud. Based on the flight time, the crew believed it had passed the hills and began to descend. At about 11:00 the aircraft hit the ground at 610m above sea level, 300m north east of the summit of Higher Shelf Stones and it was engulfed in flames.[2][3][4] All 11 crew and 2 military passengers perished in the crash
SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleaklow_Bomber
Less than a mile away is the Blenheim Mk.I L1476 Crash Site from 1939
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a WW2 bomber actually as it served in the Pacific War
There is a Blenheim crash site less than a mile and a half away to the NNW with wreckage left www.google.com/maps/place/Blenheim+Mk.I+L1476+Crash+Site/@53.4646649,-1.8705383,2403m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x487bcd267b0c3419:0x772de5cc8c5f030f!2sHigher+Shelf+Stones!8m2!3d53.449768!4d-1.867547!16s%2Fg%2F11fml8fpdb!3m5!1s0x487bcfcc4104d6b1:0xad32d09353831a9e!8m2!3d53.4697345!4d-1.8764094!16s%2Fg%2F11nnm0b5yk?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEyNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
What was the date you were there? Looks cold, but you didn't feel the cold.
@@mcdowelltw was October, so was around 10C I think, which is warm if I keep moving
So glad to hear how well prepared you are. I live in the Highlands of Scotland and every year people die in the mountains locally. Satellite PRB's are not exactly cheap, but what price your life if you get seriously lost and/or injured, especially in winter. Also people wear camouflage gear! The last guy to die near me wasn't found for weeks despite mountain rescue passing within a couple of hundred yards of where he fell and broke his leg. His grey trousers and green jacket blended perfectly with the rock and scrub!
Such a beautiful place.
May they rest in peace
Been to the B29 crash site many times in different weather, my first ever visit was a day just like you got, its a sombre place for sure.
Really enjoyed this adventure Stephen. A deep RIP to my American brothers... Always wondered what the Peat District looked like and wow, what an amazing place. Thank you!
That video made me laugh, and almost cry, at the same time. excellent work brother, that was a great video. I love your upbeat personality, and a character to boot. I used to love to get muddy and run in the rain jumping puddles and love the smell of grass and dirt .
HAPPY DAYS ✌️
More interested in the wreckage than the running (sorry), so glad you posted it on this channel. Also nice to see that visitors are still leaving poppies.
There’s definitely a spooky vibe up there. There are a few more crash sites close by too.
There was quite a bit more of her to see when we went up to visit the site but that was back in 2006. We had not long returned from SCUBA diving at Bikini Atoll, the dive trip of a lifetime, so it made sense to go see the plane which had shot that famous piece of film. You didn't mention why she crashed - it was basically lazy flying/pilot error. SOPs (Standard Operating Procedure) for flying in low cloud was to approach your landing area at a sufficiently high altitude to avoid the highest ground on your route and then circle when your navigator calculated you had arrived losing height gradually until the runway was in sight for a landing. OverExposure's pilot knew his route well having flown it countless times during their posting to their Lincolnshire base so on this, a routine flight to Burtonwood near Warrington for collection of mail and supplies, instead of continuing at altitude and then circling, instead he commenced a long, slow descent into where he thought the airfield should be. The problem was that without realising it they had encountered strong headwinds on the east side of the Pennines and were therefore not far enough to the west to commence a descent safely. They narrowly missed an even higher part of the Pennine range above the Snake but still impacted with the ground and broke up completely. On a resupply run of this nature it was normal for the aircraft to be crewed minimally with only the pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and navigator, however their base in Lincolnshire was rather spartan so the chance to visit Burtonwood, which was an enormous USAAF base with literally all the comforts of home, meant that the entire crew and extra passengers were onboard for the chance of some fun downtime. Unfortunately it cost them their lives. If you want to see our article on the disaster together with our photographs taken 18 years ago then visit...www.jarrelook.co.uk/Urbex.htm and scroll down to the B29 Crash Site report thumbnail.
So envious Stephen. A motorbike accident ended my running days & now pretty much even my walking days 😢 I'd love to be able to do what you experience. 🌟
Interesting video, now that I'm getting up in years all my friends who were runners have major injuries from it, running is quick but hard on your body long term. Enjoy it while you can.
I thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this filming in the last few seconds, where you are speaking extremely high and funny, has absolutely made my day. Thank you so much I’ll go hiking with you anytime as long as I can sit in my comfortable chair. Thanks.
My home town glossop and got dragged over all those moors as a child ,love it now though 😅 yep trail running is a form of condensed walk also makes you focus more on where you put your feet 😊
The weather gives your video a ghostly vibe and I don’t even believe in ghosts. Timing was perfect.
Thank you for taking the time and the effort to let us know about this crash. The title of this video is a bit misleading however. The plane may have been involved in some atomic testing, but had nothing to do with crashing years and thousands of miles away in bad weather. I’ve spent time on a crashed B29 in Alaska in Moses Point up by Nome. It was going to Russia as part of our lend lease WW2 support against Germany.
Also over half of this presentation is about running and after over six minutes of it I fast forwarded to the 11 min to catch the subject I expected.
Hate running but love your videos pal ❤
Thanks Paul 🙂
Walking is better if you have good legs
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I agree but I can barely walk nowadays - struggle to get from my bed to my indoor wheelchair to my outdoor wheelchair...but still I believe, if possible (& sadly it isn't for _me_ anymore) horseriding is the best form of leisure transport / travel...ever. (apart from, perhaps, a really comfortable, safe, well maintained & fuelled vehicle of some description!)
Love it up there, can get very busy in summer with people going to the crash site, a lot end up getting rescued as being lost or I'll prepared. There are numerous wrecks up there too. Great vid as always.
brilliant as ever Stephen, you captured the atmosphere of the place perfectly.
I have been there a couple of times, albeit in better weather, but it is an amazing site.
I'm not a runner but a mountainbiker (the downhill type) but I salute anyone who gets out there and does what our bodies were meant to do: roam the earth on our own power - because it is awesome! 🤠
And loving the bonus of visiting a historic site, learning about that plane and its crew. Thats what made me click on the video.
None the less, nice vid, buddy, I like your editing of the crash site. Simon
Great video Stephen. My uncle died in a plane crash just south of Penrith April 1945 returning from a training run in a very similar and tragic loss. Very sad. On a lighter note: you’re still a big child at heart! What’s your running shoes as they must be easily cleaned 😁
Something especially tragic about deaths happening during training. My running shoes need hosed off after runs like this. They are an old pair of Salomon wildcross
Great and interesting video for something you described as being much easier to produce than one that would normally go on this channel. IMO not every video has to be super high stress for you, this one was every bit as informative and entertaining as any other that I've seen from you. Thanks!
They should of made this a memorial site. In Canada, we had the Sabena plane crash , Newfoundland, debris is still there and a memorial site / Cemetery.
Well done Stephen, they just get better and better. I’ve been lost up there too, until I worked out that I have a compass on my iPhone! I was walking from the southern start point of the Pennine Way at Edale, (great pub!) up to the Snake pass , and back. Didn’t know about the crash site not far over the main road. That has annoyed me a bit. Need to go back. Do it right. Pity about the mist. Standard conditions.
These vids are really good. Keep it up. The vids I mean.
2:20 for once I’m a little disappointed Stephen 😂 missed a wonderful opportunity there! “Anyone who says differently is selling something” Dread Pirate Roberts/Wesley
Great vid as always 👌
That is a very impressive crash site, with still a lot of remnants in place. And eventhough you were 'just' trailrunning there, you managed to get a couple of great shots there. The moody weather kinda helped too I guess, as that site will look totally different in sunlight with a blue sky.
Thanks for sharing this even though it was intended for your running channel.
Yea we love the production quality of your videos but more so, we tune in for the adventure and entertainment factor.
Happy running!
Great vid! The poop weather really added to the atmosphere 😊
I'm so pleased you posted this here, as I totally forgot you started a separate running channel, and this type of video is probably the main reason I follow you. So thanks for the reminder, now subbed to your running channel too!! 😊
Amazing find! Chilling to think about the history behind this crash sir
That was great, Stephen! You are always so joyously hyper when you go trail running.
Interesting what you were saying about "if this was a main channel video...research...", because I was sat here waiting for all the background to the plane and crash, waiting for the story, that you always tell so well. You told us some, but it left me wanting more.
My next video has A LOT of research. 🙂
Incredible discovery! Thanks for sharing this piece of history Sir
Love that part of country side. At first I was like I wish you had gone on a nicer day. But then your footage of the crash site was absolutely perfect. They need to designate it a grave site ! Sadly people have been steeling bits of the plane. Loved the video thanks for making this Steve
Great video Steve
Thanks
If you think that is low production quality, let me invite you to the rest of UA-cam. Awesome video, fantastic story!
Very similar to the sight on Black Mountain in Wales. There's the wreck of a Wellington bomber that crashed in similar circumstances. It's been left exactly as it was the day it crashed. There's significant parts of the airframe there, including entire wing sections.
Similar crash site on the Arenigs in North Wales too.
Sad situation for the crew and families. You do an amazing job with this.
Bonkers but a great vid! Thanks for posting!
Excellent Stephen. Nice to see a bit of history from across the shuck.
I loved the video. Probably because you were about 5 miles from my Mum’s house and yes it can be creepy up there. Fantastic dance skills 😂
You morphed into Bernadette from TBBT at the end. Great video, glad you decided to expand it and put it on here.
That was a really well produced video. Beautiful weather given the subject.
I'll be honest and admit that for me to run anywhere, there's got to be a hungry bear not far behind. Reallly enjoyable vid though.
No bears here but rumours of the odd werewolf
Great video Stephen, thoroughly enjoyed that! Even with your madness 😂
Great video, interesting and Stella, love watching ❤❤
Brilliant Steve. I am really looking forward to you getting the UA-cam 100K subscriber plaque in the not too distant future. It will be so well deserved. Best wishes from an Ulsterman in Murcia, Spain.
Great video..keep these coming.. thanks for sharing 👍
My dad was USAF in the early fifties on a B-29 group and died young his brother was Army and and said that they flew through the clouds to test the survivability of the aircraft and crew I don’t think my mom knew my uncle was on the ground at a site also and died young please be respectful of these crash sites they were sons,brothers and dad’s . Thank you for the video I think of them every time I’m waiting while filling my car with gas I think one of those planes could empty a gas station
I agree. People died up there and its disrespectful to pick pieces up and toss them anywhere.
@@paulatterby7507 50% of the small pieces that were there 5 years ago are now gone because it was made popular by tik tokers who kept taking pieces.
Wouldn't a compass be quite helpful for maintaining a straight route to the wreck and also for finding your way back to the main route?
Wooly headed ninny muggins. I love these subtle movie references you put in r videos
This was very good. Thank you Sir.
i liked the video keep it up👍
reminds me of the manx marathon [12 mountain peaks accross the island , and the the 3 peaks too, ... i can see the glee in yer face
The bit with the squeaky voice was my favourite part of this one 😂
I have never been a runner. I have had a lifetime of rubbish knees and am due now to have replacements done. Years ago I did do quite a bit of hill walking which I loved, however those days are now long gone. 😞I still get out camping , bushcrafting and canoeing as often as possible, which I love. This video was wonderful to watch. I am an avid aviation geek and into military history, so this was fascinating. I knew a little about this tragic crash, but had never seen any of the site. Good to see the memorial and tributes up there.
By the way...your squeaky voice ending was truly inspired!! 😂
All in all, a highly entertaining video. Thank you. 😊
Think I’ll do all my videos in the squeaky voice from now on
@StephenJReid 😂🤣😁
Been to a B29 crash site up in Scotland Stephen, like that site, there is tons of wreckage, probably due to the size of the aircraft. I rode past one not far from Dalry, where you were on the bike recently, I'd stopped before so didn't bother this time as I was riding in a monsoon.. Very little wreckage there but a nice wee granite memorial in the dry stone wall. Next to a house called Brockloch Tower on the Dalry to Ayr road, it would have been almost completely cleared due to its proximity to the road. Have a look at BBC NI news, they have dug up some wreckage on Sawel Mountain in the Sperrins last few days. I hunted for that wreck twice and failed to find it. Grumman Hellcat I think. I also ran up to one on Agnew's Hill?? near your neck of the woods I think.
😂 it is good to wacht you films on Monday. Good start of the week. When you get bored by your homeland areas, please feel invited to Poland.
The squeaky voice was a cool addition.
Good vid m8.
It would be considererate & nice for anyone visiting to bring respect & lay it at the site in the way of flowers .
Hi Stephen been busy with life and family, and just playing catch up, I've seen this place a couple of times and it gets me every time, very spooky place to be, especially on your own, when it looks just like the weather they would have been flying in, we'll it's definitely not a flop . And I love watching camping and a bit of running and learning about most things, just one person missing you should have took are GARY, he would loved the weather. Take care as always and see you soon. Alan 💯👍🇺🇲🙏
Great video, thanks. You are lucky you didnt find the "bleaklow beast" that we have been warned about, apparently theres some waist deep peat bog patches just off the Pennine way!
Yep, there is one just before the steps (if you're coming from Snake Summit). Both sides of the path.
Great video mate a lot of thought and work as usual went into it.
Brilliant video Stephen - I've seen other videos of that crash site but that was a really good look around. The atmospheric conditions suited the sombre subject. 👍🏻
I visited the crash site of a B-36 in Newfoundland Canada. It had been there over 70 years but looked like it had crashed only a year ago.
I agree on the trail running thing, it's a nice walk, but quicker! 👍 How's the Harrier jacket holding up? I've just bought one and am very impressed on the first few uses!
Great video as always! Great scenery for those of us who don’t have moors in our backyard. ❤ Oh, a question: What the heck IS a moor?
An area of heather and boggy peat and sad looking sheep ,bleak but beautiful
It's where Frodo saw the little lights
wasn't that the Dead Marshes?
I did appreciate the American Werewolf In London reference :)
@@dermym1 😁
Plenty of interest there!
Not a runner, but enjoyed every bit of it. Respectful and interesting. Comparison on visibility and speed was very good.
I just watched another video of a Superfortress that crashed in Newfoundland Canada.
The wreckage remains just as it did when it crashed 70 or so years ago. The entire crew was lost then too and because the forest was so thick and the fire so hot they couldn't recover all the United States of Americas soldiers bodies. I believe eight out of eleven US Soldiers bodies were recovered. Chech it out, please.
*🙏🏻We must never forget their sacrifices🇺🇸*
Oh how I wish I still had the knees for running :)
Have you tried running the washatch 100? It's 100 miles in the washatch mountains of Utah.
My father was a USAAF B-29 navigator 1944-1945. He died in 2016 age 94. He saved - and I have - his original flight jacket with squadron insignia. It is possible/likely that he flew missions in this plane (_Over Exposed_ 44-61999). At that time he was part of the 1st Reconnaissance Group and the aircraft was designated as a F-13 variant later changed after the war to RB-29.
That’s a devastating and eerie site, tragic. I spent the last few years running to plane crash sites in my backyard, Eryri. A mix of fascination and horror at each location. This has been a very good video, thanks.
Have you got the Derbyshire peat stain out of your feet yet? It was always a sign I’d had a good few days running around the moors. I also had to get used to the funny looks I got at the swimming pool.
Who makes the running jacket? I like the idea of the double zip for extra ventilation - I get so bloody hot running, even in the cold.
@@dewindoethdwl2798 I use the socks to make peat tea now. 😂 It’s a harrier Trail running jacket, Derbyshire based company too! Great for colder weather
Thanks for the top-tip. Definitely keen to support a homegrown company.🎉🎉
I’m with you there…on both ones I love hiking and trail running is fun….while still living in the city I tried going trail running but it required a lot of time…but I loved running through paths with roots and just it was fun the landscape was changing…I had to reverse back to road running as had no time to travel to hills…but I’m hoping once my foot heals get to trail running finally as we live out of the city now with less hills around 😅 but more nature like places 👏 I’ve got once lost in close by hills exactly in these sort of conditions which came during the day and I was on the top of the hill very flat one…I was going in circles for hours until I heard voices and finally found a rout….it was a learning experience! 😬 this was really interesting…I’m surprised so much is still there…it makes one think of a story behind and trying to picture them flying and crashing…😢 plus the creepy atmosphere in such weather 👏
You only get lost in those kind of conditions once. Happened me once too. Now I always make sure to have offline maps, battery pack and often even a map and compass
@@StephenJReid exactly
That is so eerily cool, yet sad all in one. Wow!
Yea on snake pass then follow up the path and round to the trig point and u shall see it :) but most people need to be warned its not an easy thing to go to and easy to get lost on bleaklow area!
Our 4 engine Martin Mars waterbombers were powered by the same Wright Cyclone R-3350 engine as the destroyed examples at that 1948 crash site. They made an awesome sound
Ahh! Intentional or no, a whiff of Reeves and Mortimer at the end there. Very nice!
Thanks for the info 👍
Wish I was that fit
Id get lost in a place like that especially misty
Great video but, the last time i ran was 1982, after a bloody burgler! Fawcinated by that aircraft wreck and its history.
Did you catch them?
Want to go to this wreckage. Seen a few videos on it.
However I wouldn’t touch and move pieces out of respect.
Elmo J Reid at the end lol
Would love to do a calaboration video with you. You’re my inspiration 😊
thumbnail looks veryy high quality bro
Been up there a few times just shows how technology has evolved and the chances of a crash happening today like this today are slim to none
Fascinating! 😊 UK.
I can't believe all that debris is all just sitting about there after all this time. That's crazy. How/why is it not in a museum or been collected to avoid being taken. And that leads on to how has it not been taken in all these years?! Obviously a good thing, but in this day and age, I'm surprised there's anything left.
It is very difficult to look at this place of disaster and death, when there are too many of them around us today ...
"I haven't seen anybody all day. I know, I'll crawl through an opening in the rocks that I'll probably get stuck in."
It's a very good idea not to move pieces of an historical relic around, as it can make future archaeology more difficult. (These pieces of metal may flap around a good bit, so it's slightly less important but still not a bad idea to avoid moving them)
There are a ridiculous amount of aircraft wrecksites on that hill.The dark humour of the name of the aircraft makes it even more poignant.
"I have offline maps and battery backups for offline maps" my guy, have you considered a compass and printed & laminated topo maps? A good compass would keep you oriented too when climbing in and out of those ditches.
I regularly carry map and compass as backup. Most people never will though, so it’s easier to encourage people to use offline maps and make sure their phone is charged up.
More than 250 crash site in that area including v1 doodle bug helicopters and a red arrow.
Within 300 metres of the b29 wreckages of a Dakota and a Lancaster can be found.
20:40 bro became tiny tim🤣
I live not far from there, there's actually a few plane wreckages
Great video Stephen. Are you trail running shoes waterproof?
they used to be 🤣 no shoes stay dry in those conditions for long
a new subscriber effective this date and time per your channel I guess these are now referred to.
Having spent considerable time inand around the UK, and the other nearby nations, I was a little surprised at how much of the wreckage actually remains. The prop hub having had probably the last remaining prop blade on it, was more than likely the target of some Ebay souvenir hunter / sellor. seen that done a time or three for US Western history items and UK items though much more infrequent due to laws enacted to thwart such occurences.
The cold damp miserable constant wet adds to the foreboding atmospheere of something tragic having happened so long ago.To the casual outside observor, most wouldn't even know of any of this
were it not for your efforts, time and energy placed into the making of it all , none of this would be told and the memories of those who were on board that flight that fateful fogged over day, would long since be forgotten.
You speak for them. You speak for all of those whose voices were suddenly and with tragic results were cut off in mid-sentence.
You speak to and for , all of us.
I respectfully salute you sir.
In our military, we use the two word phrase of Bravo Zulu to indicate and signify a job, or task, well done.
BRAVO ZULU
You earned this one.
9th Infantry
7th Special Forces Group
Combat Medic
Vietnam 72-75
US Army.
*Salute*
The question is why was it flying so low .? , cheers shane uk 🇬🇧
I think they were beginning their descent but as with a lot of early aviation accidents they miscalculated where on their journey they were. They must have thought they had passed the moorland hills already.
My local fave spot to visit. Lot of inst turds have been taking pieces as souvenirs recently unfortunately 😢
Remember being up there in a snowstorm at night up there, was a tiny bit creepy that time ha!