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Hi Greg,

PM sent with my FB contact details.

Cheers, Simon.

Hi Greg,
as I may have mentioned earlier I am friends with the bloke who's father recovered Red Ass. He has loads of info on the plane. He uses FaceBook. If you use this form of social media, then...

One of the volunteers at our local charity shop told me that the best item he has seen come into the shop was a complete WW2 R.A.F uniform.

Nice shell, and it would look good in any collection. I'm biased, I collect shell cases.

R.I.P. Steven.

What a lovely grouping :-)

Best of wishes for a speedy recovery.

I'll dig back up an old thread :-)

I've been asking around and opinion seems to be split on the subject of detecting on common land in the UK.
Some say that yes you can as long as you leave the...

Hi b17 rescue,
I got my msg back about Red Ass. I have permission to send the complete msg to you, but shall post a selection here:-

"Now the first people to go near the crash site with the aim...

It looks like a sequel is being considered......

Well spotted.

Here's another good site:- CANNON, MACHINE GUNS AND AMMUNITION

I've just been given contact details for a member of the group who dug this B17. I've pm'd him and am now waiting a reply.

Nice, a cut down 40mm Bofors shell cool militaria

I've asked an Aviation group for any info on contact details for members of the other group, The Southend Historic Aviation Society, who excavated the plane in the 80's.

From what I remember of what I was told of the plane crash, Red Ass got into trouble, ditched her bomb load in the Blackwater, and crashed into the farmhouse.
The front of the plane was never...

Sure can. Will send you the link in a pm.

If I remember right, this plane came down hitting the top of Cannon Barns farm. The land is close to the main entrance for the Water Works at Hanningfield...

as a note to the above, parts of the B17 that crashed in West Hanningfield can be found for sale online.

If this is the B-17 that crashed in West Hanningfield near Chelmsford Essex, it was the first plane crash site that I visited as a child. It was about a mile and a half from my parents house. The...

They found loads of spigot mortar rounds that had been thrown in the river Chelmer just after the war.

Some very nice finds.

Shame all the rivers near me were dredged within the last 10 years.

Its amazing that somewhere like this can be left with all that stuff inside for all those years, and its in Birmingham.

lol

Just measured mine, NCA is correct 6 foot by 5 foot.

I agree, it looks ok.