Remember all the `Lanc’ bombers in “The Dam Busters”?
Of course that was only ten years after V-E Day that they made that film.
Wonder how many flyable Hurricanes & Spitfires are still about?
Remember the black lab’s name.
There were still a lot of Lancs in service until the early 1960s. The aircraft doing the tour was used by the RCAF for search-and-rescue until late 1963.
55 Spitfires and 13 Hurricanes are in airworthy condition. By contrast, there are over 150 P-51 Mustangs still in the air, and several dozen others in various stages of restoration.
-ccm