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Posted on 05/01/2015 11:27:45 AM PDT by Doogle
It has been 50 years since two Avro Lancaster bombers flew side by side. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Avro Lancaster, VeRA, flew from Hamilton, Ontario to meet her British counterpart, Thumper—the only other surviving flight worthy Lancaster bomber in the world—the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's (BBMF) Lancaster in England.
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Eventually several did get .50 caliber machine guns and one version did use the Bristol Hercules radial engine. But the Merlin engine was more reliable and was also used in several other aircraft, like the Hurricane, Spitfire and Mosquito .
The British and the Americans came to an agreement in 1942 that had the British flying at night, the Americans during the day.
For several years (about 30 years ago) we lived on the West Mountain area of Hamilton, around Mohawk and Rice. It was great every year to sit in our backyard and watch the Hamilton Air Show. The Lancaster was featured every year. Beautiful bird.
Around 1990?, when I was a kid flying F-16’s out of Tyndall AFB the Brits brought one over on a farewell tour. I got to go intercept it and fly formation with it. Loved it.
I got to crawl around the B-17 “Nine-o-Nine” a few years back..and boy is it tight, got stuck on the cat walk between the bomb racks...thought for a moment I was gonna be part of the tour the rest of the year..”this is what happens when you got a beer gut and think your capable of squeezing..Ok folks move along, plenty of people outside waiting to get in and see this fool”
Heh.. I had a similar experience aboard the CAF’s B-17 “Texas Raider”. They’re tighter in there than you’d think when looking at them from outside.
ya got to be part spider to wiggle up into the cockpit
At the 1:10 mark in the clip..there’s a squadron pic..I think it’s the “Dam Busters” and at the bottom, you can clearly read the autograph “Barnes Wallace” the genius who invented the bouncing bomb..
Janey... the one from Canada is on its way to 2015 EAA's Airventure.
This is what four of them must have sounded like..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6c3v9iihgw
I spoke with an elderly Dutch guy in the 90’s who lived on the coast during WW2. He told me about how his family sat in their home listening to hundreds of Lancasters passing over head most nights and how the sound of so much raw power gave them hope during the occupation.
Listening to that video gives just an inkling of what he must have heard.
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