Bomb Voyage

[Pete]

Seeing as this was going on up the road, this week I've been mainly watching this :

http://news.sky.com/story/1091537/dambu ... nniversary

[mk1]

Watched it on the TV last night & a mate of mine was at Derwent during the fly past, some really impressive pics here.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 424&type=1

M

[JC T ONE]

Amazing piece of history.

I remember watching the movie (many years ago) .

[foxy52]

[quote="JC T ONE".. I saw last nights prog... awesome achievement !!!... approx. 7500 lancs built of which 3500 were destroyed by the end of 45.....along with the deaths of some 55000 Servicemen and women out of approx 125000 in Bomber Command !!!....how brave these young men and women were .........so only 2 lancs left now the Battle of Britain flight one and an RCAF one in Canada....very moving programme esp with the Spitfires also.....no wonder Mr Snow junior was so emotional while flying in the Lanc........fab footage, great to watch the lanc with onboard/inflight cameras... foxy52

[coopertim]

Scampton is just up the road from me and the Lanc came low over school this morning! Awesome sound! There is a fly past over Lincoln Cathedral at 4 this afternoon which will be spectacular!

Tim

[36inter]

Only 2 Lancasters flying at present but the Panton brothers at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre ar aiming to get 'Just Jane' back in the air. She currently taxi's around the airfield but there is a lot going on to try and make her airworthy, two Lancasters in the air together would be a sight, Google 'Just Jane' and have a look.

Pete

[mk1]

I'm booked in for a ride in "Just Jane" this July!

Thanks to my wonderful Mrs

Just need to try & work out a way of smuggling Smudger on two, I reckon if he turns up like this, they may mistake him for a ghost.



M

[36inter]

Mark, I've decided you are not my friend anymore , jealousy is a terrible thing, I'e been meaning to organise a ride for ages, I just need to do it.

I hope you have a brilliant day, by all accounts its something to remember, I'm sure I would cry through most of it

Pete

[Pete]

Amazing how low the approach was, imagine doing this in the dark under fire...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1OuyIe0pig

They flew so low that one of the bombers in 1943 had it's bomb ripped off by the waves and had to turn back. An amazing story from start to finish.

[almondgreen]

difficult theme from the german sight...

[coopertim]

A couple of my Fire service mates are stationed at Scampton and they reckon that there are a few eerie goings on in the hangers where the Lancasters were. Guy Gibsons dog has also 'been seen' by loads of people on the base over the years!!

Tim

[Tim]

Is there anywhere you can fly in one? I've always imagined what it would be like to be sitting in the tail turret with an enemy fighter coming up behind you.

Tim

[LDR209H]

Those boys had space hoppers for gonads. These days it's stress/depression/chuck a sicky. Shameful really. Just found this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vicke ... 943%29.png

[Tim]

It must have taken a bit of courage to fly a tent through enemy gunfire.

Tim

[LDR209H]

It must have taken a bit of courage to fly a tent through enemy gunfire.

Tim

They weren't nicknamed 'widow maker' for nothing !!

[foxy52]

It must have taken a bit of courage to fly a tent through enemy gunfire.

Tim

They weren't nicknamed 'widow maker' for nothing !!

...yes, very similar to the Starfighter of the 60,s nicknamed the flying coffin !!!.....What courage these men had to face....it just doesn't bear thinking about to much suffice to say they gave everything .. !!! God Bless em all !!!..... foxy52

[foxy52]

difficult theme from the german sight...

I often wonder have how Germans must feel when events like this take place, I went to the Derwent Dam yesterday and also to the 50th 20 years ago. 6 years of conflict to defend our freedom and we let in scrum from the rest of the world to come here take jobs,housing, benefits free health care,commit crime, abuse women, then when we convict them we can not deport them, why?.

..I should think the Krauts are indifferent to it as they have very similar get togethers to celebrate what their soldiers did in their bloody campaigns,...the Americans had the right idea at the end of the war to recruit the cream of german tech avail at the time,ie aviaton and rocket scientists,engineering,police and security etc etc...As far as your other points I could not agree with you more, I wont comment further as you have said it all... apart from saying could you imagine if it was at all possible to bring back those brave men and women who lost their lives in WW2 what they would think of life in England now in this day and age.... my happiest times were in the 50,s and 60,s.. I don't wonder why as its obvious !!!... rgds foxy52

[madaboutcherry]

my father was a rear gunner in wellington bombers, he was 18 when he first flew. his crew were shot down twice into the north sea twice. he rarely talked about it and suffered from severe claustrophobia all his life.

[coop12g295]

Having seen the Wellington at Brooklands the tail gunner is very enclosed with all that geodetric structure,they were brave men.

[LDR209H]

my father was a rear gunner in wellington bombers, he was 18 when he first flew. his crew were shot down twice into the north sea twice. he rarely talked about it and suffered from severe claustrophobia all his life.

Wow,you must be very proud. And what a fantastic role model. Today we get the Beckhams and Kardashians.