January 22, 2006 at 11:27 pm
Can anyone guess the Lancaster?
one picture to start with……..
By: Papa Lima - 23rd January 2006 at 21:42
Sorry, James, I was only trying to illustrate your point . . .
Peter (Watch out, I might turn up in Oz one day!)
By: Hatton - 23rd January 2006 at 21:33
sorry James, not Easy Kirkby. Although point A was quite close 😉
By: JDK - 23rd January 2006 at 21:13
Not sure about all those bandwagon jumpers ~sniff~ Anyone can back up someone else’s guess. (Although the flash eliminators was a useful corroboration. Wasn’t a Flash Eliminator some spaceship mentioned in a Queen song? ) 😀
Answer to new Quiz:
A: Very personal light show depicting the owner’s name in a field.
B: Just Jane strutting her NX611 stuff…
By: Hatton - 23rd January 2006 at 20:40
another clue……… it was taken on saturday 21/01/06 at 1030pm. Now for those of you who can steer by the stars you may have a clue. No photoshopping here 😉
By: Hatton - 23rd January 2006 at 20:37
Clues-
-Historic Aviation related
-In the UK
…thats all im giving away. Suffice to say its not in Iraq and its not one of the pyro shows im afraid Lancman. Good guess though.
By: Bluebird Mike - 23rd January 2006 at 20:23
Phew, I got my guess in just at the right moment then! Yay!
Quiz 2…hmmm…a pyro show at East Kirkby?
By: Rlangham - 23rd January 2006 at 20:23
Anyone care to guess where this and perhaps what is going on?
Looks like a bad day in Baghdad to me – lemme guess, is it something astronomical?
By: Hatton - 23rd January 2006 at 20:20
Peter,
your prize is……..another quiz 🙂
By: Peter - 23rd January 2006 at 20:16
What do we get …what do we get…?
By: Hatton - 23rd January 2006 at 20:04
congratulations to those who guessed correctly. It is indeed the Lambeth nose section. The effect of ‘darkness’ is purely created using off camera flash at 1/2 power. The background appears black because the background is far away enough for the flash to fall out due to the relatively low output.
Took the pictures on Thursday during a research trip.
Anyone care to guess where this and perhaps what is going on?
By: Bluebird Mike - 23rd January 2006 at 19:52
I’d vote for ‘Old Fred’ too!
By: Peter - 23rd January 2006 at 16:47
gotta be one of the nose sections either dv372 or kb885
By: 682al - 23rd January 2006 at 11:18
I’ll go with DV372 on the basis that the .303’s in the first pic are without their flash eliminators, and Papa Lima’s photo shows them to be missing on DV372.
By: JDK - 23rd January 2006 at 09:13
I do, PL. Thanks.
Who says it’s in darkness? Could be being clever. 😉 (As anny fule kno.)
Clues. 2 x .303, possibly at an angle, with some aging in the barrels. Not tail, unlikely to be mid upper, ergo nose.
A shot side on to the nose bomb-aimer’s position. Not even I’m that tall with a full Lanc.
It’s in a museum where it gets a lot of fondling (or did) rather than new paint and not being touched (pic 2).
Hatton’s implying it’s his pic, so it’s not the nose at the Canada Av Mus.
Not PA474 cos it’s not glossy enough.
Of course it don’t stop me from being quite wrong, Chiz. 😀
By: Dave Homewood - 23rd January 2006 at 08:35
Looks too bright to be the IWM one. Unless you snuck in at night?
Lancasters in darkness. Other than Hendon and AWM, I can only think of the one at Motat which is reasonably dark, or maybe the French one in its restoration hangar.
Unless it’s outside darkness, then it could be the BBMF one if not Just Jane.
Not too many more to choose from, sadly.
By: Papa Lima - 23rd January 2006 at 08:03
Do you mean this one, James?
By: JDK - 23rd January 2006 at 02:21
RAAF operated Lancaster nose in the IWM – DV372, PO-F
By: Hatton - 23rd January 2006 at 01:30
one last clue before bed,
By: Hatton - 23rd January 2006 at 01:26
Given your recent travels, it would most likely be KB944 in the Canadian Aviation Museum (You did get to Ottawa, didn’t you?)
sadly not, toronto was the only place that got a visit in Canada in the end (plus the falls on the way back over the border)
here is a picture of FM104 that we did get the chance to see one rainy morning.
Keep guessing folks…….
By: JDK - 23rd January 2006 at 01:04
Given your recent travels, it would most likely be KB944 in the Canadian Aviation Museum (You did get to Ottawa, didn’t you?)