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Posted by ravensworth2674 on October 3, 2006, 3:01 pm
Please log in for more thread options Actually, there is a Christmas ghost story which I wrote up in Star
News, the Journal of RAF 31 Squadron Association.The ghost was real
enough, it was the day when Glenn Miller disappeared on the 14th
December 1944. On the same day, a Flying Fortress was separated from
its squadron and re-appeared over the Scottish Lowlands - coming from
the North instead of going to a Cambridge airfield. In the late winter
clouds it landed in what it believed to be a lit airfield. There was
one only a mile or two away. The B-17 crashed at 2670 feet- but in a
snow field called the Hell Hole on Cheviot. It is still there,
preserved in the peat and as the viscosity changed bits of it rise out
of the ground - and then disappear again.
Is it just a story? The records of both crashes are documented- in what
was my old airfield and now the RAF Museum at Hendon. In that story, is
the other story about - well, another body. A Bronze Age one, oh and a
skull with the top sawn off. Nope, ours is a lady, this was is a
gentleman's.But I digress- like the B-17 and Miller's Norseman which
was heading 400 miles off course.
Norm
dingbat@codesmiths.com wrote:
> Andrew Mawson wrote:
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> > It seems peat is a marvellous rust inhibitor
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> It is. It has a higher affinity for oxygen than the steel does, so a
> peat bog is effectively anoxic. They're even pulling aluminium aircraft
> out of those bogs in restorable condition.
>
> OTOH, _flowing_ water through peat is as bad as ever.
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>http://www.mil.hiiumaa.ee/2000_09_14_kurtna_T-34-36/
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>I presume that there must have been precious little oxygen in that
>lake