Lancaster Number 2
 

BBC News today talks of a second Lanc, currently 'cleared' taxying and soon hopefully to fly, having been restored by dedicated enthusiasts in Lincolnshire.

I have looked back two pages in search here and cannot find a thread on this. If there is one, can someone 'refresh it' to the top please and I'll 'kill' this one, otherwise let's use this one for promoting a fantastic achievement? True dedication, and assuming they get it airborne, a wonderful success. Even if not, well done to the Panton brothers and helpers.

BBC News - Pensioners restore rare WWII bomber

BOAC,

I'm sure you knew this, but it would actually be Number 3.

Number 2 is here CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE
and something I didn't know until today, you can actually go for a flight in it!

However, never mind the number, more power to Panton brothers.

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...two-years.html


http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...lancaster.html

I thought there was even more up to date threads than this - it has certainly been a current topic on some other fora.

If you have chance to get to East Kirkby and see the museum I would whole heartedly recommend it.

- indeed and I was shamefacedly being 'parochial' (probably not quite the right word....):)

Edited for incompetence

Just watched the news item. Its cleared for taxying and you can pay for a ride. Money goes towards preservation. Will go myself as soon as I can.

Wishful thinking, I fear.

Could well be - are you in a position to judge?

BOAC . Great news. Bet you'd fancy having that on your ticket?

It has been taxying, and taking passengers on those taxying runs, for years already...

- yes, I'd love it, but the employment prospects are somewhat limited.:)

Is money the only barrier to flight?

Yes plus the CAA! There is another thread running on Mil which suggests it may need a new main spar (expensive) and I hear from another source that the a/c had languished outside RAF Scampton as a gate guardian for a long time. It does, however, look LOVELY and I wish them all the best of luck. A superb effort.

What barriers_to_flight can the CAA erect?

Hide behind EASA

Just realised that I had an internal tour of her, at the Biggin Hill Airshow, must have been 1967 or 1968. She was marked as HA-P then. They had all their coloured brochures lined up on an internal longeron, retained by a long length of string: as I entered I managed to tug on it and the whole lot ended up on the floor. Happy days...........

Well I'd love to be proved wrong.

But the BBC's confusion between "pristine" and "airworthy", plus the fact that it hasn't actually flown since 1970, would suggest that "soon hopefully to fly" is a more than a tad optimistic.

DaveReidUKI would agree but the BBC journo has no means of verifying this - expect by paying money to an 'expert' to give their opinion.

Recently, I participated in an interview with a reputable newspaper about my specialist field. The journo reported me accurately. Just as she also reported what other people in the field told her - that I knew to be wrong. Not badly wrong or misleadingly wrong, just not the whole story.

That's modern journalism. MONEY. It does not matter if it's print or electronic, folks are not prepared to pay for the product so there is less money to pay for the product to be made.

Happily, if this Lanc never gets airborne, it has fewer ways to crash ... (Sorry)

This link

Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre

shows they have been gathering spares for a number of years and they always said they wouldn't plan to start any restoration until they knew they would have all the spares required. They received their 4th airworthy engine just before Christmas.

I wish them all the best!

Whatever happened to G-ASXX?

Er, it ended up in Lincolnshire, where a couple of blokes are planning to restore it to airworthy condition. :)

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...umber-2-a.html