2 Lancs

[Clunk60]

Both Lancs E of RWB :D:D, heading your way Chickenlover!!;)

[unclenelli]

Clunk60, sorry to steal your thunder, but here (http://www.sleafordstandard.co.uk/news/local/video-three-lancasters-wow-crowds-and-don-t-miss-your-souvenir-special-1-6289218) is 12 Merlins in harmony.

Due to be repeated on 14th Sep 2014!

[smujsmith]

Heard the throaty roar, knew what it was, and only caught a Spit and Hurricane, I'm getting old I reckon. I'm sitting in the back garden on 14th if its to be a repeat.

Smudge:ok:

[racedo]

Will they be doing a Dover to London flight on BoB weekend ?

[smujsmith]

Unclenelli,

Any forecast for overhead RWB/Swindon on Sunday ?

Smudge:ok:

[NutLoose]

They are doing it again this weekend, I don't know what's planned but I could tell you Monday as I have my ticket :D

Smuj, try

Try

Flying Programme 11 - 15 Sept 2014 (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/news/index.cfm?storyid=EA2A001E-5056-A318-A8FCB4F2CB42DFFF)



Lancaster Bomber 2014 UK Tour (http://www.warplane.com/lancaster-2014-uk-tour.aspx)

RAF BBMF - Display Info (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/displayinfo/)

[smujsmith]

Thanks Nutty,

Some interesting stuff in there. Enjoy it M8 (as they say). I wish I were free to partake in the day. Thanks again for the info.

Smudge:ok:

[MPN11]

yeah, just my luck to be in the USA when they displayed in Jersey :{

Best wishes to them both for their display season ... may the sun shine on your wings.

[MPN11]

... and more, at the Jersey Air Display.

Photos and video from the Jersey Evening Post at this link ...

Pictures and video: Lancaster bombers steal show at air display « Jersey Evening Post (http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2014/09/12/pictures-lancaster-bombers-steal-show-at-air-display/international-air-displaypicture-peter-mourant/)

[NutLoose]

I do like how the BBMF website appear to have adopted the nose art names for the Lanc and others and tell their story.

RAF BBMF - Lancaster Thumper Mk III (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/theaircraft/lancasterthumpermkiii.cfm)

[NutLoose]

Smuj, for the rest of the BBMF fleet you cannot track them live now, see

Track our Aircraft Live! (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/news/index.cfm?storyid=122DB3D3-5056-A318-A8946DB778012B50)

[NutLoose]

You can track the Canadians here


Tracker (http://lancasterbomberale.co.uk/tracker/)

[nimbev]

2 Lancs and 3 Spitfires in formation over Goodwood for the Revival Weekend. Earlier today there were 2 Hurricanes, 3 Spitfires and an ME109 flying in formation. Wonderful sounds!

[NutLoose]

And there'll be three Lancs at East Kirkby tomorrow...

Nutloose.... Pprune at Ten reporting from a near by B & B :p

[Willard Whyte]

2 Lancs and 3 Spitfires in formation over Goodwood for the Revival Weekend. Earlier today there were 2 Hurricanes, 3 Spitfires and an ME109 flying in formation. Wonderful sounds!

Not quite as loud as the BRM V16 though!

[smujsmith]

A nice shot from the Telegraph today:

http://i1292.photobucket.com/albums/b572/smujsmith/18f586a2e8a80ec0576e12ace25761c6_zpse8d4e722.jpg

Wish I was there.

Smudge:ok:

[Wander00]

However many people tried to get into Duxford today and were disappointed - other than me that is! In the P&R at about 1000, 25 mins into queue for P&R ticket machine when told gates were closed. After some thought and an abortive try for one possivle vantage point, ended up on the verge by a roundabout at Sawston. Great head-on view when they arrived, and some good crossing shots. Afternoon enhanced by being parked next to a car in which a guy had brought his 92+ year old mother, who had been a WAAF at Scampton on the night of the dams raid. Had an interesting take on the death of the dog we cannot name. Promised to e-mail them some pics. Glad I went - and in future I shall be less critical of those watching airshows from the roadside. Thanks BBMF and the Canadian warplane Heritage

[NutLoose]

Make that errrmm three :cool:

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/Lancs/Lanc2_zps632efd0a.jpg

http://i536.photobucket.com/albums/ff321/taylortony/Lancs/Lanc1_zpsc31f8262.jpg

[CoffmanStarter]

Really nice pics there Nutty ... Well done and thanks for sharing with us :ok:

[54Phan]

Nice pictures, Nutloose, as is normal. I wonder if the Committee Against Aviation would have any qualms about Jane flying with that H2S blister?

[NutLoose]

Two Lancs to do the dams, chances of getting near........... slim

Iconic and Unique 2 Lancaster Flypast! (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/news/index.cfm?storyid=29250E9D-5056-A318-A861958C0A76C57F&rss=true)

[CoffmanStarter]

Now ... If it had been the German Dams ... :E

[Agaricus bisporus]

Just two Lancs...

If you were the hand on the throttles of Just Jane in that photo how tempted would you be to just get a foot of air under the wheels for the cameras, and sod ever being invited back?

I certainly know what I'd do.

[CoffmanStarter]

The aircraft are passing over Derwent Dam in Derbyshire, on their way back to RAF Coningsby from Southport Air Show, at a new earlier time of 16:15 BST.

Hopefully Nutty will be there with his camera ;)

[NutLoose]

Not going, getting anywhere near was going to be grief and having seen it twice I thought if I don't clog up the road it may give someone else the chance.

[CoffmanStarter]

Fair do's ... Hopefully someone will post some pics IDC :ok:

[racedo]

Is the flying over as not seen them :(

[NutLoose]

She goes home Wednesday, programme here

Lancaster Bomber 2014 UK Tour (http://www.warplane.com/lancaster-2014-uk-tour.aspx)

[racedo]

Just might be able to get there to see her off.

Any suggestions for best place for viewing Photos etc ?

[Gannet Driver]

Pse post photos of here departure! And wish her a safe trip home, we miss her over here.

[NutLoose]

Racedo, at Coningsby I don't know, hopefully someone can hellp

[Valiantone]

I hope to be there..

I wonder if they get a fitting send off.....like what was planned when they arrived even though the weather wasn't very kind in the end.

V1

[Gannet Driver]

Thanks V1, hope to see your pix.

Did the Derwent Flyby take place? have been searching for clues

[ETOPS]

Yes it did :ok:

BBC News - Lancaster bombers flypast at 'Dambusters' Derwent Dam (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29295272)

[Wwwop]

Derwent flypast took place followed by one run over Chatsworth. Superb! :D

A small but very enthusiastic crowd was at Chatsworth. We hadn't planned to go anywhere near Derwent preferring a lurk near J29 on the M1 instead. However, a BBMF tweet early afternoon mentioning Chatsworth got us up and out over the hills to the big House. Plenty of space.

Vera starts her journey home on Tuesday.

Wwwop's daughter.

[CoffmanStarter]

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77730000/jpg/_77730301_77730096.jpg

Image Credit : BBC News

News story and video here ...

BBC News - Lancaster bombers flypast at 'Dambusters' Derwent Dam (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29295272)

[Gannet Driver]

THANK YOU BOTH! Have already posted the link in World Naval Ships Forum which has shown interest all the way

Terry`s Propeller Bombers - Page 5 - World Naval Ships Forums (http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10124392#post10124392)

Mike

[CoffmanStarter]

A pleasure GD :ok:

[Brian W May]

My daughter who was at Chatsworth phoned me this afternoon as the two Lancasters flew over - so I could hear them.

That was a lovely thing to do. It is a long time since I sat on the RH mainwheel on Thumper holding the trolley acc connected (1971).

[NutLoose]

Filmed from both Lanc's, just look at the traffic!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJ4htNDoHI&feature=youtu.be

[Gannet Driver]

Nutloose, that's brilliant, thank you from Canada! Am circulating the link asap.

Frustratingly, cannot post the picture mentioned below, but World Naval Ships Forum has a thread entirely devoted to the ship paintings of Jim Rae - who also paints aircraft.

So, please try this link:-

Jims Ship Paintings - Page 132 - World Naval Ships Forums (http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3338&highlight=jim%27s+ship+paintings&page=132)

......he shows the partially completed water-colour and then, lower down, the finished article of the initial arrival at Coningsby.

Mike

[CoffmanStarter]

GD ...

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/23C0E4E8_5056_A318_A830877809125686.jpg

Image Credit : MOD RAF

Some more cracking pics here :ok:

UK Forces TV (http://forces.tv/86329589)

Lancasters Pay Homage to Dambusters (http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/lancasters-pay-homage-to-dambusters-22092014)

[Captain Radar....]

I made the tortuous journey there and back through the multitude, cars were parked nose to tail literally miles back from the dams. I was in the forest on the hunt for a good viewing point well before flypast time when the Spitfire and Hurricane flew down the valley (I'd thought they were going to arrive with the Lancasters so I only glimpsed them flashing past through the trees!). Great to see the Lancs in such a setting though and nice to see the Puma ending the day with its own flyby down the valley. That would have made a nice picture from where I was but it took me by surprise, I only had time to wave back at the crewman, I couldn't help myself!

[NutLoose]

She departed this morning on her homeward journey and is just north of Perth heading to Iceland, the BBMF put up two Hurri's Two Spits and the Lanc for a farewell flypast over Lincoln this morning...

you can track her enroute live here



Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker! (http://www.flightradar24.com/CGVRA#56.61,-3.54/10?&_suid=141147031629606649183503063809)

Thank you to the Canadians for a memorable visit.

[Wander00]

Very many thanks - will contribute to the engine fund, and have a safe trip back. you have made many, many friends over here

[NutLoose]

Gannet Driver, have you seen this one? It's the two Lanc's in formation with the Vulcan and filmed from the BBMF Lanc


3 Avro Sisters: BBMF, CWHM, Vulcan to the Sky - YouTube

[CoffmanStarter]

Departure ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&list=UUuHpyqzAjGfCx4UEgxIWrTw&v=NZ8jtGg9Lyw

[Pozidrive]

Nutloose,


Love the ground shadows at about 2.20!


Coffman Starter,


Apart from the aircraft, that pic shows what a dry summer its been.

[Valiantone]

Well I suppose it had to go home at some point:sad:

I still never got to chat with the guys as the fenceline was busy today, although not quite as crazy as the weekend of the first return from the 3 Lancs.

Dunc Mason when asked if they would come back said simply 'Never say Never'.

I saw her arrive, do the 3 practices PDAs then the formation with the Vulcan, return from the first East Kirkby bash. And finally the flypast over Waddington after revisiting the dams and finally watched her go today.

I have still got some pics to sort but will add some over the next few days.

Cheers and safe journey guys

[Gannet Driver]

Thanks guys, wish her well!

[unclenelli]

Will BBMF ever plan a reciprocal visit?

[NutLoose]

Good news. It's looking like they may end up in the black costs wise for bringing her over... $340,000 fuel bill :eek:

Fuel for Lancaster bomber's tour of U.K. rings in at $340,000 (http://m.thespec.com/news-story/4888805-fuel-for-hamilton-s-lancaster-rings-in-at-340-000/)

BTW in case you do not know, we may be getting a visit from a B29 soon too, FIFI may be coming over :ok: