Another Flying Lancaster?
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The original gate guardian at Scampton was, as has been pointed out, R5868 which was dismantled and trucked out to eventually be placed in the RAF museum. That aircraft was then replaced by NX611.
I was posted from Scampton in Feb 1974 so the changeover must have happened a couple of years previous to that.
I was posted from Scampton in Feb 1974 so the changeover must have happened a couple of years previous to that.
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Is NX611, the East Kirkby Lanc, the one that was gate guardian at Scampton, or was it the one that I saw on its return to the UK when I was at the Biggin Hill Airshow in 1965. I recall a Lanc flew in after a marathon repatriation journey. It was in all-over white, and from memory was an ex French Navy maritime patrol aircraft that had been in use in the Far East.
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Story of a Lanc (NX611)
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Looks more like the photo was taken at Biggin, In front of the T2 hangar now used by Jet Aviation. not Lakenheath as stated at the foot of the photo
Anyone more knowledgeable than me, able to confirm the location ????
Anyone more knowledgeable than me, able to confirm the location ????
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The Just Jane guys are asking for opinions - from their web site.
Should we fly NX611?
Send us your opinion to- [email protected]
Send us your opinion to- [email protected]
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As it's a double Bank Holiday weekend and as my wife is away until Sunday, I've spent most of today and yesterday finally scanning in my last remaining aircraft photos from the 1970s and 1980s. I knew I had it somewhere and today I found it-the negative of a photo I took of "Just Jane" in 1973 at Blackpool:
ScanImage 2e | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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What flew over South London this morning!
Heard a familiar noise about 11:00hrs this morning (4 May) and looking up it looked like a black Lancaster heading towards Biggin Hill, no mention of flight on BBMF so was I mistaken or can anyone tell me what I saw?
According to the BBMF schedule she did Hyde Park then off to Holland
You can download the Excel spread sheet of the BBMF flying programme for the season here
Welcome to the BBMF - May 2011
Edit just realised her flypast over London could well have been for the laying of the foundation stone for the BoB memorial
You can download the Excel spread sheet of the BBMF flying programme for the season here
Welcome to the BBMF - May 2011
Edit just realised her flypast over London could well have been for the laying of the foundation stone for the BoB memorial
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Biggin Hill Air Fair 1965
Found a few images of G-ASXX at Biggin Hill 1965. Sorry about quality but Box Brownie was never that sharp.
View from cockpit. Remember climbing over mainspar to get there. Don't think the general public would be allowed to climb inside these days.
Bomb aimer's view through the rain to IL18.
Hope they are of some interest.
Keith
View from cockpit. Remember climbing over mainspar to get there. Don't think the general public would be allowed to climb inside these days.
Bomb aimer's view through the rain to IL18.
Hope they are of some interest.
Keith
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Photos of other Lancasters
Forgive me if I've posted links to these photos before, but here are two Lancasters other than NX611 and PA474 and the one in the RAF musuem, that I have photographed over the years.
Firstly, the one in Sir William Robertson's one time collection at Strathallan, in 1976:
JetPhotos.Net Photo » G-BCOH (CN: 277) Private Avro Lancaster by Michael Blank
And secondly, one at the Calgary Aerospace Museum:
646 Calgary 17-9-05 Lancaster FM136 (i) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
When I showed the Calgary photo to an Air Britain audience some time ago, I said I thought the colour scheme might be some kind of maritime reconaissance one, but several people thought it was just some kind of primer. Can anyone here say for sure?
Firstly, the one in Sir William Robertson's one time collection at Strathallan, in 1976:
JetPhotos.Net Photo » G-BCOH (CN: 277) Private Avro Lancaster by Michael Blank
And secondly, one at the Calgary Aerospace Museum:
646 Calgary 17-9-05 Lancaster FM136 (i) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
When I showed the Calgary photo to an Air Britain audience some time ago, I said I thought the colour scheme might be some kind of maritime reconaissance one, but several people thought it was just some kind of primer. Can anyone here say for sure?
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Lancaster B X FM136
Manufactured in 1945 by Victory Aircraft Ltd., assigned to No. 20th and 30th Maintenance Units in England, never issued to active Squadron. Returned to Canada and converted to Maritime Reconnaissance. Taken on strength by No.404 ‘Buffalo’ (MP) Squadron (Greenwood, Nova Scotia) as RX-136. Transferred to No.407 ‘Demon’ (MP) Squadron (Comox, BC). Struck off strength April 1961. Lancaster FM136 was purchased from Crown Assets Disposal Corporation by Lynn Garrison, in 1961. He created The Lancaster Memorial Fund to see the aircraft displayed, in 1962, on a pedestal at McCall Field, Calgary, as a memorial to those who trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. It was subsequently moved to Aerospace Museum of Calgary in 1992.
Lancaster B X FM136 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Manufactured in 1945 by Victory Aircraft Ltd., assigned to No. 20th and 30th Maintenance Units in England, never issued to active Squadron. Returned to Canada and converted to Maritime Reconnaissance. Taken on strength by No.404 ‘Buffalo’ (MP) Squadron (Greenwood, Nova Scotia) as RX-136. Transferred to No.407 ‘Demon’ (MP) Squadron (Comox, BC). Struck off strength April 1961. Lancaster FM136 was purchased from Crown Assets Disposal Corporation by Lynn Garrison, in 1961. He created The Lancaster Memorial Fund to see the aircraft displayed, in 1962, on a pedestal at McCall Field, Calgary, as a memorial to those who trained under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. It was subsequently moved to Aerospace Museum of Calgary in 1992.
Lancaster B X FM136 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Dunno, but I do know this......ugly.
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