Canadian Lancaster to visit UK in August 2014!

My footage of the two Lancasters, plus the BBMF Spitfire and Hurricane at Dawlish Air Show last Saturday.



As well as the English Electric Canberra.

 

Saw them again at the Little Gransden airshow on Sunday. Could hear them coming for miles. Each year the show features a short service of remembrance and the arrival was timed to coincide with the prayer for airmen. I barely held it together then and I can barley hold it together now just thinking of it. One of the most moving moments I've experienced ever.

 

Lovely stuff.

 

Ditto & Ditto!

 

The Canadian lanc is currently grounded on account of an engine failure. Only the BBMF lanc made it to Shoreham yesterday, and it sounded like it would be the same today while spares were sourced and fitted for the Canadian one. Hopefully it won't disrupt the programme for later on.

Apart from that, Shoreham was a great show - photos later if I get a chance to sort through!

Tom

 

It blew a supercharger seal on Thursday on no.4 engine. The BBMF has loaned them a replacement and the plan is to have it fitted in time for the three Lancasters event on Tuesday. The Canadians have admitted it will be tight but will do everything they can to meet the deadline.

 

Latest news on the web site say's 3 lancs cancelled tomorrow VERA has not been repaired they are trying to get another date and the tickets will be honored if they can arrange a new date

 

Vera has been repaired but not in time to do the required ground and air tests on the replacement engine. Same result though - no flying Lancs at East Kirkby tomorrow.

 

Fingers crossed for good weather and serviceability on Sunday then....

 

Aye. And my mates chuckled when I told them I'd booked both days.

 

Air test a success and now approaching Coningsby. Well done everybody.

 

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LINCOLNSHIRE AVIATION HERITAGE CENTRE

3Lancasters - 2nd Sept 2014- Rescheduled
By the kind permission of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum we have been able to replace the cancelled flying on the 2nd September 2014 with an event on Sunday 14th September 2014.
All those who had tickets for the 2nd September 2014 will gain free entry to the event on presentation of your ticket. If you cannot attend the replacement event please do contact the Centre and if we can resell your ticket we can arrange a refund for the face value of the ticket.
The 3Lancasters events are raising fund for the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Avro Lancaster NX611 and a charity chosen by RAF BBMF.
Tickets for the 2nd September 2014 are NOT valid on the 7th September 2014.
Our mailing address is:
Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre
East Kirkby Airfield
East Kirkby
Spilsby, Lincs PE23 4DE

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Well the forecast for Lincolnshire looks good, so hopefully they'll be flying today, although the schedule is manic to try and cover some of the events cancelled yesterday! Looks like 16:00 for the fly past at East Kirkby after a long day's flying....I'm off to get in the car

 

The 2 Lancs went over my house on the North side of York this morning at 09.35 heading North.
2 Spits or similar circling at about 16.00 possibly for a flypast at Elvington this afternoon

 

Best we could manage from where we were this afternoon:

 

An amazing and emotional day at East Kirkby today. Looks like Big Stu was towards the end of the flight line, further down from me.

 

Wish I was there, but tickets sold out the day they were issued. I'm sure they'd have funded a fair chunk of the restoration of 'Just Jane' if they allowed more than 5,000 in! There's always the possibility of a return visit in future (I understand there's a second Canadian Lanc going for gold?). I'm just glad I saw them at Clacton.

 

I'll second that Ian - I had a 'dust in the eye' moment watching them fire up Just Jane earlier in the day, let alone when the exhortation was given over the PA after the flypast. We thought we had worked out the best place to stand (having overheard NX611's pilot describing the anticipated flypast sequence earlier in the day), but actually it was impossible to get good shots of all three in the two head on passes across the airfield from where we were - PA474 & FM213 went right over the top of us both times. Sadly we were nowhere near as well prepared as those people who brought chairs and camped out on the flight line all day...

A fantastic day all round - even the carnage of the free for all to get out of the car park amused us

Most interesting fact of the day - I didn't know there's another taxyable Lancaster (and a quick Google shows it to be FM159, in Canada, where there is also a fifth aircraft, FM212, under restoration for return to flight). At this rate those Canadians will end up with more working Lancs than us!

http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/lancfm159.html
http://www.ch2a.ca/

Stu

 

And then people would have said they couldn't get a good view. Crowd was several rows deep as it was. They did advertise an overflow day - which today was - once the event on the 2nd sold out so that's 10,000 tickets sold so you were a bit slow if you missed that one as well.

 

Guilty as charged m'lud. EK provided a good supply of their own chairs FOC. Very nice of them. Got talking to some fellow photters and we watched each others stuff when calls of nature needed attending to.
I was out within 10 minutes of starting the car. Got there early so was very close to the exit.