History of Shorts

[casper]

Programme on UTV this Thursday (20th) - Short Stories - Tall Tales @ 7:30pm

Part two of two. Concluding the celebration of the centenary of Belfast-based aerospace company Short Brothers, looking at stories from the cockpit and the shop floor

[Dave]

I watched the first part of this last Thursday night, it was n just before the Red Arrows programme so I am surprised no one saw it. It had video footage of the Shorts Belfast Landing and taxiing along at Belfast City Airport. Impressive site. Will definately be tuning in again this week.

[casper]

Didn't know it was on last week but will definitely be Sky +ing it this week

[casper]

Just got around to watching this and all I can say is that I was thoroughly disappointed. The show was just too short to represent 100 years of time. Having said that the footage of the Sunderland, Skyvan, SC-1 and Belfast was fantastic.

[casper]

One thing in the show that I did wonder about was the story about the Sunderland that crashed. During the re-telling of this story they were showing wreckage on a mountainside. So I wonder if the wreckage is still there.

Edit - found this

Aircraft crashed at night into mountain side. Surviving crew members moved down the mountain the morning to raise the alarm. Weather conditions hampered rescue. Local Liam Briody wrote a book about the crash and many memorial events have been held over the years. A memorial plaque is present at the site. The last known survivor J Gilchrist died 64 years later in 2008 on the very same night. D. Tucker cousin of M V Wareing has created a  commemorative website. Details, photos and interview at Finn Valley Website. A collection of newspaper reports and links. [MA Files G2/X/1279 & ACF-S-201; F G Green service Record Lib/Arc Canada; Spoke with Eric Harrison of 228 Sqn association. Quinn p.60-69; IMA #B84; McCarron p.20 & 35; O'Loughlan Sunderland File/Names: 2004, Confusion of crew total; Memorial at site; Quinn p.60, Robertson p.208; Turns up on numerous sites. Trull later KIA in 1944; HOHGv2 p244; RCAF Casualty List 806, Contact made with D. Tucker relative of M V Wareing and the family of F G Green and relatives of Trull, Richardson and Copp all in 2008]

Looks like the wreckage is still there
http://www.freewebs.com/dw110/apps/photos/album.jsp?albumID=1163037

[Angry Turnip]

It is a War Grave and normally they leave the wreckage if it is in an isolated location-hopefully no-one goes grave robbing

There are many WW2 crash site around NI-most around airfields and high ground-just a pity the NIAAT site has gone.

[Dave]

Unfortunately I forgot about this programme and ended up going to the cinema At least I managed to see the first half last week. Perhaps they will replay the programmes at another date.