[PROCON]

WOO-HOO!

[AZamericonnie]

Pro....happy weekend to you Mr. #3!

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, sir! And WOOHOO!!! to you also!

[pandemoniumreigns]

Evening PRO...

[Kathy in Alaska]

And Late is in for the silver!

[MeekMom]

Evening Pro!
How are you doin’?
Ready for the weekend?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Pro...((HGS))...you and Zac got plans? Is volleyball still on the agenda?

[alfa6]

Greetings to all the Canteeners out there in Freeperland. I finally made it back to the home base after braving the crowds at Sam's and Wally World. Thre ain't no slowdown in the economy here if the bread and chip aisle at Wallly World is any indication. So on with the Friday Flyby.

Well any ways as this weekend is the 65th anniversary of the Dam Buster's raid I figured to post up some pics of the British Lancaster Bomber. Thanks to Freeper Stoat for posting a thread on the remembrance of the anniversary in England. That thread is (HERE) And back in Dec of 2003 the Freeper Foxhole posted a thread on the DamBusters (THERE). Thanks to snippy_about_it for pointing out that thread.

Well now that we have all of the credits in order on with the pics.

First up from 1940 a head on pic of a Lancaster, for a B&W pic I think this is really great.

The Lancasters of 617 Squadron had to be specially modified in order to hold the Dam Busting bomb. Here is a pic showing the mods to a Lancaster.

This picture shows to good effect the bomb as well as the pulley and belt system that was used to rotate the bomb before it was dropped.

A nice color pic of the RAFs Battle of Britian Flight's Lancaster, I think.

This Lancaster belongs to the Canadian Warplane Heritage Musuem.

To close out tonight's Friday Flyby we take you back to 1943, where a Lancaster is returning to it's base after a long night mission over Nazi Germany.

Well that's all for tonight folks. With a wee bit of luck we will be back tomorrow night with a Saturday Sortie. y'all have a great weekend.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}