Canada's Lancaster bomber to cross Atlantic for U.K. tour

What a great plane. ... flies over our head several times a year ...every Nov 11 without fail.

What a great museum (was a member, once ... should do it again).
My son slept under the wing of a B25 as part of "Night Ops" with his Wolf Cub Pack. We're doing it again, this year. I will join them, this time.

My son's grandfather (my dad) flew five of the different aircraft in that museum: Tiger Moth, Cessna Crane, Avro Anson, Westland Lydander and Consolidated PBY5 Catalina.

His brother was an instuctor on Harvards. Lots of connection for that plane.

Oh me nerves will be taut until it lands...

Maybe they can stop at Thule for gas and give the kids a thrill!

The sound of four Merlin engines is a wondrous thing.

The sound of nine of them is mind blowing! Here is our Lanc. in formation with a Mosquito, two Hurricanes and a Spit ... Hamilton Warplane Heritage Museum ... June 2013.

Pushing the throttle forward trumps that in spades................not to mention flipping one on its back. TONS of power.

Pushing the throttle forward trumps that in spades................not to mention flipping one on its back. TONS of power.

Many years ago was treated to a full throttle Hurricane & Spitfire low level pass, 3 times.....

Pushing the throttle forward trumps that in spades................not to mention flipping one on its back. TONS of power.

Many years ago was treated to a full throttle Hurricane & Spitfire low level pass, 3 times.....

This must be you then. My all time fav!!!!!

Me too, bloody Brits.

Still, it'll be awesome to see both of them flying together.


That trip I took to Dieppe last August, the Brit Lancaster was supposed to pass by
as well the Spit, but didn't cross the Channel. They really baby theirs, but have no problem
to ask ours to pop across the pond like it's no big deal.

I saw the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane memorial flight at the 2000 Farnborough International. Farnborough Airshow. Up till then I'd seen the Lancaster fly and when I was a kid saw John Paterson fly his Spitfire around the city from time to time, but had never seen a flying Hurricane. Super cool to see them all together!

What you will probably never see is a flying Mosquito. I believe that the one in the photo above is the only one. Plywood, unfortunately, is biodegradable. 1,032 of these incredible, high speed aircraft were built in Canada and nothing remains of them.

More Mozzies will be coming. Forms and jigs used to rebuild that one will be used to finish others. A few years down the road but there will be more and it may be that some of the non airworthy may return to flight.

On a sadder note.....

http://news.sky.com/story/1053172/burma ... -is-solved

Good find. I'd forgotten about that dig.

One of my great uncles bought a Lancaster after the war. He wasn't a pilot, but he wanted it for the parts. Used to drive it around his farm before he cut it up for parts.