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Jan Kyster
05-06-11, 05:45 AM
Here I am, minding my own business, waiting for the Formula One practice to start, when I hear this distant rumbling...

And then over the hill some 70 meters above ground comes a lone Lancaster flying! :o

I did hear the news yesterday it was touring Denmark, paying tribute by visiting the graveyards where british pilots are burried.

Some 14 days ago I submitted these photos http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1646750&postcount=265 from the local memorial, and hearing about the Lancaster visit, I was kind of aggrevated that they wouldn't pass here, at least according to the route I saw.

And yet here they are! :rock:

Lovely sight. And sound!

Even 200 meters away, four Rolls Royce Merlin engines makes a lot of noise...

http://hodja.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/avro_lancaster.jpg

http://www.bt.dk/sites/default/files/node-images/453/2/2453833-lancaster-bomber.jpg

The flight plan, but they went south to Esbjerg after visiting Ringkobing/Stadil...
http://hodja.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/dkflightpath.jpg

Unfortunately he didn't have the Spitfire and Hurricane with him, or no other escort - just one lone plane.
Torplexed
05-06-11, 07:00 AM
Wow! Excellent photos! You are fortunate indeed to have seen this vintage warbird in flight. :cool:
Armistead
05-06-11, 07:01 AM
Bet that was a site. We have a WW2 plane airshow in my town every year. They use the old airport, but all the planes fly over the house all day. I try to ride in a different warbird every year...just wish I could afford to ride in a P51, $2000 for a 20 minute ride just too much. Even a T6 is 300 bucks for 15 minutes. Sure prices will go up this year due to gas.
Herr-Berbunch
05-06-11, 07:21 AM
Nice pics. :yeah:
sharkbit
05-06-11, 07:43 AM
Nice pics. :yeah:
I would have loved to have seen it flying and hear those four Rolls engines.

One of the highlights of my life was a private tour inside a Lancaster at the RAF Museum in Hendon, just outside London back in 1992. Even got to sit in the pilot's seat-that was an incredible feeling imagining flying one of these at night over Europe during the war.
I was at a seminar there and we got to go inside the Lancaster and the B-17 they have there along with getting up close to many of the other exhibits. I also remember how roomy the inside of the B-17 was compared to the Lancaster.

:)
AVGWarhawk
05-06-11, 08:23 AM
Quite a sight. She is one beautiful piece of work. :yeah:
Gerald
05-06-11, 08:32 AM
Great,:up:
GoldenRivet
05-06-11, 08:34 AM
There's a Lancaster outside my window!

Status update if NAZIs had facebook in 1943 :yeah:
AVGWarhawk
05-06-11, 10:01 AM
That might be worthy of Twitter!

Imagine Hilter sending Tweets. :haha:
Growler
05-06-11, 12:10 PM
Twitler? I like it.

Great shots of a beautiful aircraft... there's something just plain visceral about the old warbirds. I can't explain it any better than that. Your chest seems to thump with the force of those engines' roar, and when you're close enough for a face full of exhaust fumes, man, you just know you're alive then.

Great shots - I'm glad you got to experience that!
Jan Kyster
05-06-11, 12:11 PM
A tiny correction: I did not take the pictures! Shamelessly stolen on the web... :oops:

From I heard the plane till she (?) disappeared over the harbour, I could only stand with all hairs raised. No time to take pictures.

But I'll keep the images at heart. It was awesome.


Here's a video from the passing of LilleBelt yesterday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3ejMllH5kE

And some photos from Billund - "Happines is a Lancaster on the ground": http://www.fyens.dk/article/1843441:Indland-Fyn--Laeser----Lykken-er-en-Lancaster-paa-jorden?image=0
Dowly
05-06-11, 12:37 PM
Status update if NAZIs had facebook in 1943 :yeah:

:rotfl2:
http://www.doheth.co.uk/funny/gallery/computers/Little_Red_Facebook.jpg
tater
05-06-11, 12:39 PM
Nice. The music of those 4 RR engines... wow. I run outside this time of year when I hear radial noise (ex-navy planes used as slurry bombers).
Jimbuna
05-06-11, 01:44 PM
Your lucky, I think I've only seen her the once and I live in the UK...my late uncle was a Flight Sergeant on one during the war.
Oberon
05-06-11, 01:53 PM
I am a very lucky person. Very lucky indeed.

I live not far from the old USAF airbase at Bentwaters where Carolyn Grace keeps her Mark IX Spitfire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/images/2006/08/01/grace_ling_470_470x300.jpg

Therefore on nearly every sunny day there will be a faint drone in the distance of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine purring away. It's unmistakable, my ears pick it up straight away and it never fails to bring a smile to my face. Occasionally she'll bring the Spitfire right over the town and that's a lovely sight to see and sound to hear.
Since I've been living up here in Suffolk I have seen (outside of airshows) P-51 Mustangs, F-15s, A-10s, Hercules, a Tornado, Apaches, Lynxs, Sea Kings, Chinooks, Air Force One (75% sure), E-3 Sentries, and some other aircraft which travel with AF1.
It's a good place for aircraft watching...pretty flat too. :up:
Jimbuna
05-06-11, 03:06 PM
I am a very lucky person. Very lucky indeed.

I live not far from the old USAF airbase at Bentwaters where Carolyn Grace keeps her Mark IX Spitfire.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content/images/2006/08/01/grace_ling_470_470x300.jpg

Therefore on nearly every sunny day there will be a faint drone in the distance of a Rolls Royce Merlin engine purring away. It's unmistakable, my ears pick it up straight away and it never fails to bring a smile to my face. Occasionally she'll bring the Spitfire right over the town and that's a lovely sight to see and sound to hear.
Since I've been living up here in Suffolk I have seen (outside of airshows) P-51 Mustangs, F-15s, A-10s, Hercules, a Tornado, Apaches, Lynxs, Sea Kings, Chinooks, Air Force One (75% sure), E-3 Sentries, and some other aircraft which travel with AF1.
It's a good place for aircraft watching...pretty flat too. :up:

But have you seen a 'brick'?
Oberon
05-06-11, 03:35 PM
But have you seen a 'brick'?

An F-4 Phantom II? Alas no...

I haven't seen a flying brick, I had my back to it at the time whilst running away from the guy throwing it, saw it on the floor after it hit me on the back of the foot though. Then I invited the guy involved to take a close examination of the floor. :yep:
Jimbuna
05-06-11, 03:50 PM
An F-4 Phantom II? Alas no...

I haven't seen a flying brick, I had my back to it at the time whilst running away from the guy throwing it, saw it on the floor after it hit me on the back of the foot though. Then I invited the guy involved to take a close examination of the floor. :yep:

Ya daft bugga!!

You know what a brick is Jamie?

A Phantom is a Rhino....a brick is? :DL
UnderseaLcpl
05-06-11, 04:03 PM
Hands up if you reflexively had the urge to hit the "c" key upon viewing this thread.
Oberon
05-06-11, 04:23 PM
Ya daft bugga!!

You know what a brick is Jamie?

A Phantom is a Rhino....a brick is? :DL

A Banana jet? :hmmm:
Gerald
05-06-11, 04:25 PM
A Banana jet? :hmmm: And what could it possibly be, :06:
Oberon
05-06-11, 04:28 PM
And what could it possibly be, :06:

http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/125/medium/Blackburn_Buccaneer_S2B_32.jpg

Blackburn Advanced Naval Aircraft (or Blackburn Buccaneer)
Gerald
05-06-11, 04:29 PM
http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/125/medium/Blackburn_Buccaneer_S2B_32.jpg

Blackburn Advanced Naval Aircraft (or Blackburn Buccaneer) Great,thanks,nice shoots :DL
papa_smurf
05-06-11, 04:51 PM
Beautiful aircraft:yeah:

Not sure if it still happens, but every summer there was a flyover of Derwent water to commemorate the dam busters raid.
Torplexed
05-06-11, 07:54 PM
Beautiful aircraft:yeah:

Not sure if it still happens, but every summer there was a flyover of Derwent water to commemorate the dam busters raid.

I think I saw that event in an old episode of Peak Practice once. Except they were using Spitfires.
TLAM Strike
05-06-11, 11:19 PM
Status update if NAZIs had facebook in 1943 :yeah:

I can imagine the twitter that would follow: "Achtung Englanders!"
joegrundman
05-07-11, 01:07 AM
Beautiful aircraft:yeah:

Not sure if it still happens, but every summer there was a flyover of Derwent water to commemorate the dam busters raid.

Derwent Water is in the Lake District. Are you sure it wasn't over the Ladybower reservoir?
Torplexed
05-07-11, 01:22 AM
Derwent Water is in the Lake District. Are you sure it wasn't over the Ladybower reservoir?

He might be referring to the Upper Derwent Valley in the Peak District of which the Ladybower Reservoir is one feature.
Jimbuna
05-07-11, 11:18 AM
http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/125/medium/Blackburn_Buccaneer_S2B_32.jpg

Blackburn Advanced Naval Aircraft (or Blackburn Buccaneer)

Exactly...and not only has that photo above been my sig on the britmodeller forum for over a year now but I also have the diecast version of that 12 Sqn 'Brick' in the foreground.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3646/buccaneersig.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/buccaneersig.jpg/)

Here's the photo without the mark:

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1075/buccaneer3.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/19/buccaneer3.jpg/)

If you like the 'brick', have a look here:

http://www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk/