[Newsbot]

Title: Lancaster bomber faces scrapyard
Category: Videos
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2014-05-01 14:23:35
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

Noooooo!

What does the video say?

[Gunnair]

WTF?

[Hyack]

Read more in the news, apparently there is hope for it with a group doing another restoration in Ontario.

[Jabberwalker]

Hyack Hyack:

Read more in the news, apparently there is hope for it with a group doing another restoration in Ontario.

There is another one that had a similar history (sitting on a pedestal for half a century) in Toronto ... Downsview, that is being restored. It was also in rough condition and it may or may not fly again. There is a huge amount of metal they need to replace out. It may make sense to cannibalize ne to get the other one flying, again (if that's all that is needed).

[DrCaleb]

Hyack Hyack:

Read more in the news, apparently there is hope for it with a group doing another restoration in Ontario.

Good news if they could get one plane using parts of the two. I was hoping it wasn't the one in Nanton, AB. I see it sometimes when I pass through town, and always hope to hear the engines fire up.

[xerxes]

You think the gov't could pony up the dough. Even $1 million for a restoration would be chump change.

[Jabberwalker]

I was in the Warplane Heritage Museum three weekends ago for a sleep-over with a few hundred Cubs. Their Lanc ... the "flying" one, had all of her engines stripped off for re-build. They are going to fly her across the Atlantic this summer for the fly-by commemorating the 70th anniversary of D-Day (likely the last one with many actual veteran attending). That's a long fight and they are leaving nothing to chance.