Paging the aeroplanisties.

"Bomber Crew" - channel 4, next Monday at nine.
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This was trailed last night as showing people competing for "a chance to
crew one of the few remaining Lancaster bombers still flying". ICBW, but I
thought that there was/is only one - the "City of Lincoln" in the Memorial
Flight.

 

As discussed a couple of months ago there's at least one other. I took
these in Ottawa in September of this year.

http://members.rogers.com/sv650s/Lancaster/lanc.jpg
http://members.rogers.com/sv650s/Lancaster/lanc1.jpg

 

Oooh, well, colour me Ginger. Thanks for that.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Andy Wegg"

That's the one owned by the two farming brothers?
Must be nice, having a bloody great runway on yer land. And hangers. And
a bomber.

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I used to live anout 2 miles from there and vaguely know one of the
brothers. Apparently the airframe has far too many hours on it and would
need to be completely rebuilt in order to make it airworthy. They've now got
4 working engines though and they do taxi it out of its hanger and down a
short piece of runway on occasion so it does make you wonder whether it
might be a long term goal to see it flying again.

 

Don't let me forget!

 

Or to use for spares?

<Checks Ebay for slightly used Lancs>

 

Ahh yes, I'd forgotten where it had come from.

 

Is it the one that used [1] to be the gate guardian at Scampton? I've
been in that one.

I think I was about 7 at the time; all I can remember was it smelt
'funny', not at all like service aircraft [2], and I was too short to see
out. My Dad was on 9 sqdn at the time.


[1] Is there no longer one there?
[2] Which smell of sweat, vomit and old television sets.

 

Small world... my Dad was in 9 sqn, prolly a bit later though, he saw
the change from Vulcans to Tornados... Waddington '82/'83?
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No, we left Lincolnshire in 1977 for Singer Link Miles down here in
Sussex for the Tornado simulator project.

He was on Victors at Marham '81 - '87/88 [1] and part of the group of
Victors stationed at Ascension during the Falklands.

[1] I can't remember exactly but it was when they 'forgot' to tell me
they'd moved to Boscombe Down.

 

sweller says...

My Uncle Stan was at Marham then. Huge tall bloke he is, was married a
Maltese woman about half his height.

 

I was a guest of the station CO while working for Marconi saw a
*wonderful* demonstration of Vulcan flying for foreign visitors while I
was there.

An awesome aeroplane.

 

They still have one parked just inside the main gate there.
An aeroplane that looked wonderful.
http://www.rafmarham.co.uk/gallery/index.htm

 

I think that makes two sad kids.

I live about 8 miles from Marham now.

 

Probably there with my cousin at the same time then! He was on Vulcan, and
changed to Tornados at Waddington then.

 

The hotel I stayed at in Colorado Springs has some plane, which forms
part of the restaurant. You can eat inside the fuselage (it's got
tables and waiters and stuff).

http://www.benblaney.co.uk/hotel.jpg

So, what kind of plane is it?

 

A big one ?

 

Call yourself a planespotter, eh? Come on - G or L?