At a later date, when I was going through the video clips that I took when we were
in what I calculated to be the exact area that the Corsair should have been in, I
came across a four second clip that I had taken of a tree that had intrigued me in
that had broken off at (by memory) about 8 foot above the ground.
I’m not saying that it had been broken off by an impact as I took it that it had
snapped off probably due to rot and a heavy snow fall. Whichever way, it had been
broken a long time ago.
In one of the movie frames, when I looked just to the right of the stump, in the
background, my eye was attracted to a heavily moss covered wing shaped object!
I’m once again, not saying that this is the wing of the Corsair, but, No.1: it is
in the right area and No.2: it is further compounded with a black area that may
well be a collapsed section between the wing ribs (shown just to the left of the
arrow point in photo below)
The bush can give many illusions of just about anything you care to see if you look
hard and long enough, so I’ve learnt to take much of these sort of observations ‘with
a grain of salt’.
However, this observation has taught me just how much our minds are conditioned by
television, movies, etc, to what to expect to see, when in reality, it may be totally
different.
I had been looking for a huge aircraft just sitting there in all its glory with a
few vines growing over it, when what we should be looking for after all these years
is a heavily moss covered mound of dirt! Most of the aluminum would by now be corroded
away in the damp conditions and the engine would have broken away and appear like
a moss covered rock .
The possible wing shown in this photo is lying roughly on the same angle as shown
in the aerial photo, but there is only one way to find out if it genuinely is it
or not......... and that costs lots for me to get there, so at this point of time,
I’m leaving it to some very keen people, who live much closer to the area, Daniel
Hayes, Mark Church, and friends. I hope to post news of their attempts of tramping
in to the site soon, so watch this space.....
