You don't see this everyday!

[siber]

Hey guys...

They're a few weeks old, but look what I spotted in Salford, Manchester, UK last month... Take a look!

(If you need a teaser clue before you click, it flies, it's WWII, and there are only two flying examples left in the ENTIRE world...)

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5152/boatrace184dq3.jpg (http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=boatrace184dq3.jpg)
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/932/boatrace191mo5.jpg
http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/117/boatrace192nn0.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8118/boatrace200ai0.jpg
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2004/boatrace226my1.jpg (that's Salford Quays and the Imperial War Museum North in the photo)
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6303/boatrace275or3.jpg
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4199/boatrace278la0.jpg
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8881/boatrace297qy0.jpg
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/3900/boatrace346vc4.jpg (Old Trafford, Manchester United's Stadium in the background)
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/1408/boatrace350qi7.jpg

Make you dribble? ;) I was dribbling the whole time...

[predavolk]

I guess the other one still flying flies over my house all the time. I've got to stand in it, and just took the old man (and kids) to visit it on the ground a couple of weeks ago. It sure is a beauty, and there's no mistaking the sound of its engines when it flies overhead! Hearing a whole group of them pounding through the air must have really been something back in the day. I'm trying to get my friend to get enough money together to let his grandfather (an RCAF tail gunner) get a ride in it.

[seafarer]

Canada's flying B X model was actually only retired from active service in my birth year!

:hmm: Don't know whether that makes me fell more, or less old???

I wish there was a flying Halifax though. I saw the one being restored at Trenton several years ago, but not recently (she was still very early in the restoration phase when I saw her).

Nice pics :up:

[Sailor Steve]

S-weet!

I especially like that last shot.:rock:

[Ivan Putski]

Nice shots siber, thanks for sharing. Puts

[UnderseaLcpl]

Aieeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Crash Dive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sag75]

Avro Lancaster!!
i have a model of it!!

very beautyful warbird...

[coronas]

Good old plane.....Thanks for share.

[SeaWolf U-57]

One great aircraft to see flying and the sound of those planes overhead is fantastic (unless you are playing SH3 then its not so good ALARM!!!:up:)

[Jimbuna]

One of my uncles (sadly departed) was a Flight Sergeant on one during the war.

These planes were regarded very highly by those who flew in them.

[Uber Gruber]

Uncanny Jimbuna, my grandfather was a Flight Sergeant on one as well (PB-153), shot down and killed by Feldwebel Emil Weinmann, in a Messerschmitt BF 110G-4 night fighter, over Germany on Paddy's Day 1945 on second to last sortie. The sole survivor was Sgt Len Titmus who managed to parachute out of the rear gun turret. 20 Lancasters were shot down on the way to the target, Nurnberg, another three crashed in the target area and two came down behind Allied lines. 25 lost in all, about 10.8% of the attacking force.

My grandad's Lancaster crashed in the Haid Forest, about 400 meters south of the village of Waschenbeuren.

[marv2112]

Thanks for sharing the pics! Very cool! :D

[Jimbuna]

Uncanny Jimbuna, my grandfather was a Flight Sergeant on one as well (PB-153), shot down and killed by Feldwebel Emil Weinmann, in a Messerschmitt BF 110G-4 night fighter, over Germany on Paddy's Day 1945 on second to last sortie. The sole survivor was Sgt Len Titmus who managed to parachute out of the rear gun turret. 20 Lancasters were shot down on the way to the target, Nurnberg, another three crashed in the target area and two came down behind Allied lines. 25 lost in all, about 10.8% of the attacking force.

My grandad's Lancaster crashed in the Haid Forest, about 400 meters south of the village of Waschenbeuren.

Sorry mate but I can't really add anything more now that he's no longer with us.

My aunt (his wife) passed away before him and all I can remember is seeing the odd photo many years back. :-?

[papa_smurf]

Great pics:up: .

[JHuschke]

Nice pics! Thanks for sharing! :rock: