"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
11/07/2020 at 12:42 • Filed to: Planelopnik
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"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
11/07/2020 at 12:42 • Filed to: Planelopnik | 15
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I was going to spend more time on this, but considering our impending doom, I’ll just get it posted now. I’ve been wanting to get to this thing for 4 or 5 years, and finally wound up in Tofino with dry weather.
In 1945, an RCAF Canso (Canadian Catalina) took off from the Tofino airport. Very shortly after takeoff, the port engine failed. The pilot tried to turn back to the airport, but they were too low, and the wings were already starting to clip treetops. There were 12 people onboard.
The pilot managed to keep the nose up, and aimed for, or was lucky enough to hit a few trees before hitting the hillside.
All 12 survived, but they had a miserable slog back to civilization. There is a hiking trail to the crash site now, as it’s a popular unofficial destination in Tofino, but even with a trail it’s a slow, muddy, boggy trail, that’s more of a climb once you get under the plane.
So without further ado, here’s a photdump of a WWII plane crashed into a hillside.
I’ll leave you with some of the trail, including a WWII bunker that the trail goes through. I have more Tofino pics to post, which I can hopefully do before Oppo is dead. It’s taking so long to do this on mobile, it’s crashed and had to recover the post like 7 times. Anyways. Trail and bunker.
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> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 12:47 |
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I can show people lots of aircraft bits around Oahu, some grew up into trees etc.. I know of an engine that tumbled down a hill and has grown into a tree trunk.
ttyymmnn
> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 13:06 |
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wafflesnfalafel
> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 13:11 |
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very cool - there is a “whole” one down in Oak Harbor we saw on display at NAS Whidbey a couple years ago.
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gmctavish needs more space
> ttyymmnn
11/07/2020 at 13:31 |
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I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t that
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ttyymmnn
> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 13:34 |
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You haven’t seen that movie? It’s a classic. A bit uneven across the board, but it’s fun, especially in a late show setting at a theater while in a certain state of mind that is shared by those around you. If you catch my drift. Your picture reminded me of the airplane graveyard in the movie.
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gmctavish needs more space
> ttyymmnn
11/07/2020 at 13:53 |
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Ha, I do catch your drift, but no I haven’t seen it, I’ll add it to the list!
It does look similarly jungly
Bylan - Hoarder of LS400's
> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 14:15 |
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This is so cool! Thanks for sharing the pics
sn4cktimes
> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 15:22 |
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Looks like parts have been removed from the engine, but nobody ever bothered to take the entire thing... Lemons project in the making there.
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gmctavish needs more space
> sn4cktimes
11/07/2020 at 15:51 |
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Two mostly complete engines actually. Would be a hell of a job to get them out though, you wouldn’t even be able to get a quad in there
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sn4cktimes
> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 16:54 |
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It’d require some preemptive planning for sure. Custom carts perhaps. Likely have to lug an engine hoist back there unless some trees line up perfectly. Is it a protected site at all? O r just “there” as are many old things in B.C..
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gmctavish needs more space
> sn4cktimes
11/07/2020 at 17:18 |
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It would have to be narrow enough to fit on one of those boards, since on some sections of the bog it’s just one board wide, and able to get up and down steep sections with tons of mud and roots and trees....it would either be impossible, or effectively impossible due to the terrain...honestly the most reasonable way to get them out would be with a helicopter.
It’s just there, but it is in a national park, so I don’t know what that means for scavenging the engines
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sn4cktimes
> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 18:46 |
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Hmmm, most national parks stuff is a no touchy scenario.
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> gmctavish needs more space
11/07/2020 at 20:13 |
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Woah, now that is cool! Such a crazy thing to have exist way out in the bush. No one would ever go there if someone hadn’t ended up there by accident first. I'm surprised it is so intact.
I also really like the abandoned bunker pics. That's not something you usually expect a trail to pass through.