There's a Lancaster outside my window!
 

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/show...&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/201..._lancaster.jpg

http://www.bt.dk/sites/default/files...ter-bomber.jpg

The flight plan, but they went south to Esbjerg after visiting Ringkobing/Stadil...
http://hodja.files.wordpress.com/201...flightpath.jpg

Unfortunately he didn't have the Spitfire and Hurricane with him, or no other escort - just one lone plane.

Wow! Excellent photos! You are fortunate indeed to have seen this vintage warbird in flight. :cool:

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.

Nice pics. :yeah:

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.

:)

Quite a sight. She is one beautiful piece of work. :yeah:

Great,:up:

Status update if NAZIs had facebook in 1943 :yeah:

That might be worthy of Twitter!

Imagine Hilter sending Tweets. :haha:

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!

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:...jorden?image=0

:rotfl2:
http://www.doheth.co.uk/funny/galler...d_Facebook.jpg

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).

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.

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...70_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: