Canadian Lancaster taken off for England.

[Swoop]

Vera has landed in Iceland.  Final leg to England will be flown on Friday, arriving approx 1.30pm local time.

[Swoop]

[Bruv119]

hopefully those volcanoes behave themselves.  

[Swoop]

Vera landed safely in Lincolnshire around 30 minutes ago.  Welcome to England.

[pipz]

I am Canadian! 

[morfiend]

Vera landed safely in Lincolnshire around 30 minutes ago.  Welcome to England.

 Sweet!    I'm glad they made it without incident. I had planned to go see her either for preflight or the day she left but just wasnt feeling well enough to make it.


  IIRC it was either last year or the year before that when Vera lost a part in flight! I seem to recall an aileron failure and was worried she might have an issue crossing the pond.


   Swoop,go see her if you can,those 4 merlins just have to be heard!


   

[Bruv119]

swoop are you going to see it? 

Just saw that it is at Eastbourne for 4 days next week and that event is free! 

Has half the shoreham line up, eurofighter red arrows etc.   

[xbrit]

[ghi]

Cool flight;
 I enjoyed this old beauty at many air shows in Toronto and a couple of photos i took 2 years ago ,here in Windsor, ON; they have one non-flyable in Nanton, Alberta ,I climbed inside, interesting;  Bomber Command Museum of  Canada http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/nlsmuseum.html

[Bodhi]

Very cool.

[MiloMorai]

The Canadian Aviation Museum has a Lanc and a Lanc nose.

A Halifax is now being restored at the RCAF Memorial Museum at Trenton, Ontario as a tribute to the Canadians who flew Hali's. Canadians flew more Halis than Lancs.

[Waldo]

 Lots of clips on youtube now 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xDPh_WNXqI

 

[Gman]

Such great footage, I've seen a lot of amateur vids on youtube of both Lancs coming in low level, with a fighter escort with them - what I wouldn't give to be there on the ground filming myself, or better yet riding along in one of those Lancs.  Fantastic times, seeing both together.

GHI, the one in Nanton, I saw quite by accident the first time driving through, was on the main drag there, looked right, and saw an open hangar door in the city, with the tail of what for certain I thought was a bomber.  Turns out it was a Lanc, pretty amazing.  There used to be one outside of the Calgary Airport at the air museum there, you could always see it when you drove to the airport back in the 90's as there was only one route in or out back then.

I'm glad this trip happened, great footage and great sights for everyone there who got to see the 2 bombers flying together.

[Swoop]

Finally going to get a spare minute to go and see these two this weekend.  Going down to Dunsfold (the Top Gear test track) and camp out in the beer garden of a pub somewhere.

[xbrit]