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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Bionic on November 23, 2012, 12:06:40 pm
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WOW,
I was standing in the field with the dog this morning when this Lancaster bomber came directly overhead. It was so low that I felt I could have reached up to touch it. Fantastic sight.
Sally
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Lucky you !!!
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Hmmmm - why was it there? I always worry when I see military planes :gloomy:
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would love to have been there
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Annie,
I don't think it was a problem. Well at least I don't think they are bombing us ;D
We do get a few of the military jets on training missions flying over and breaking the sound barrier. I love to see them. When they are very low if you wave to the pilots they dip their wings in answer.
I am assuming they come from the base in North Wales. Perhaps I will see William flying one :excited:
Sally
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Hmmmm - why was it there? I always worry when I see military planes :gloomy:
I do believe the Lancaster bomber is long retired from duty. I think it only comes out for parades. It was due at Sunderland airshow this year but itwas too windy, WW2 must have had better weather than these days ::)
It is a magnificent site to see when the weather permits.
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What a fantastic machine. I remember watching it take off from about 100yds away at the RAF Valley airshow some years ago a memorable sight.
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We occasionally used to see them and other military planes/copters when we lived in Aberdeenshire, always made me shiver. Not a war person. :'(
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We used to get them every now and then over Embsay, North Yorks and I know what you mean about them being low. I would fancy my chances of being able to throw a stone at it. They dont half make the ground shake as well.
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I was in the garden a few weeks ago and the last airworthy Avro Vulvan, which lives nearby, roared lazily over at snails pace, so low that we could practically count the rivets on the underbelly. We were in awe of it.
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There are only two airworthy Lancasters in the world and only one in the UK based in Licolnshire.
I very much doubt that it was flying in Wales today as it only comes out on very special occasions see
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf (http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain_Memorial_Flight)
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When I lived on Arran we often had military planes flying low. They were eventually banned from flying in spring as so many sheep aborted. The rest of the year though...
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My uncle was a flight engineer on Lancasters duing WW2. His plane was shot down in 1944 over Holland and he was shot by Germand snipers as he parachuted down. He died and is buried in a village cemetary in Holland. He was 21.
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That's no age at all and, of course, he wasn't the only one by a long chalk. Those that start wars have a lot to answer for.
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Bionic, do you mean a Hercules we get them flying low over us.
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BB, I only said a Lancaster bomber because thats what OH said. Its possible I misheard him of course and it was a Hercules, or even stranger that he might be wrong ;D
Either way, it was a lovely sight
Sally
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My dad flew Wellingtons in the war. After the war he had the honour of flying all the bigwigs, including Eisenhower, to the war trials at Nuremburg.
He was a Flight Lieutenant and after the war, he applied to the RAF to stay in as a pilot. They said that he could stay in but he would no longer be an officer, only a sergeant. He left the RAF in protest and went into insurance!!!
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We get a lot of planes, from the incredibly noisy put-your-fingers-in-your-ears Typhoons, to the make-your-heart-thud Chinook helicopters (the animals hate these most) to the enormous Hercules C3s.
Both the Chinooks and the C3s fly very low, the C3s looking like you could touch them. These are the ones that sometimes folk say 'Lancaster bomber' when they see it, but in fact they're cargo/support planes.
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WE get the heavier planes over here sometimes (whatever they are), they are something special to see aren't they, sometimes see them going up the main valley, they are actually about level with us, strange seeing them below the skyline.
2 chinooks came over yesterday, heading north, heard them long before they came over the hill, also the jets, sometimes they are so low I wait for the crash just after they go over the hill top heading south, I've been known to duck when out in the garden, not because they would hit me, just the power force? of the sound. Sounds daft reading that back, but that's how it felt.
OH laughed when I said I could see the pilot, but he's rarely here during the day, doesn't know everything then. :-J