Another Flying Lancaster?
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FI still not changed caption.
I also believed it was Biggin, and further posters agreed.
Looked at the Lanc on FI today, and it is still wrong caption.
glf many years parked in same spot on that grass.....
Looked at the Lanc on FI today, and it is still wrong caption.
glf many years parked in same spot on that grass.....
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Proplinerman,
The Grey paint on the Calgary machine was indeed a primer to help cover the thing up before too much corrosion set in.
I was there about a month ago and there was a guy and a girl sanding the thing down in the big plasit hangar, and they had unearthed two sets of fusleage codes on a Black scheme which was the same as WW2.
Speedbird48
The Grey paint on the Calgary machine was indeed a primer to help cover the thing up before too much corrosion set in.
I was there about a month ago and there was a guy and a girl sanding the thing down in the big plasit hangar, and they had unearthed two sets of fusleage codes on a Black scheme which was the same as WW2.
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G-asxx = nx611
G-ASXX Flew into Blackpool in 1971
, I was in a Cherokee six G-AWCY that landed at Hullavington to pick up the Navigator. We trundled down south to deliver said Nav, and then SXX got airborn with Neil Williams at the controls. En route she did a Bomb run across Lake Bala in Wales, rear turret reported two sailing boats blown over on this pass! The aircraft belonged to Reflectair/Histoic Air Preservation Society. We ran the engines regularly at Blackpool, It was then purchased by Lord Roberts, it was dismantled, found it's way to Scampton, I remember the RAF "Chiefy" air tech saying that SXX was in better nick that their flying Lanc. The RAF one had been butchered several times in the Centre Fuse to house all kinds of experimental gear. I also remember SXX being in its White French Marine color, there are patches on the bomb doors where she took "incoming" when at Dien Ben Phu!.
Not a lot of people know that!
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, I was in a Cherokee six G-AWCY that landed at Hullavington to pick up the Navigator. We trundled down south to deliver said Nav, and then SXX got airborn with Neil Williams at the controls. En route she did a Bomb run across Lake Bala in Wales, rear turret reported two sailing boats blown over on this pass! The aircraft belonged to Reflectair/Histoic Air Preservation Society. We ran the engines regularly at Blackpool, It was then purchased by Lord Roberts, it was dismantled, found it's way to Scampton, I remember the RAF "Chiefy" air tech saying that SXX was in better nick that their flying Lanc. The RAF one had been butchered several times in the Centre Fuse to house all kinds of experimental gear. I also remember SXX being in its White French Marine color, there are patches on the bomb doors where she took "incoming" when at Dien Ben Phu!.Not a lot of people know that!
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