A big thankyou to the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre team for a stunning display at East Kirkby on Saturday. The Lancaster ‘night run’ was one of the most emotive memorials I’ve ever seen – and darned spectacular too!
I can only guess at the frozen hands and skinned knuckles that were required to get Just Jane ready to taxi in those sub-zero temperatures, but rest assured it was worth it!
I know there are some stunning images on other websites and my ‘dodgy digi’ won’t come near them, but here’s one pic that sums it up for me.
By: ollieholmes - 29th March 2006 at 22:40
I still whant to make it to one of these taxi runs. Maybe next time we should try and make it as a forum gathering.
By: Denis - 29th March 2006 at 22:19
the sensation was invoking much older and very powerful memories. Very strange. Bob
Yes it is a strange sensation, I have never asked anyone who actually works with either ‘Jane or the ‘City Of Lincoln’ if that after all the time spent with these aircraft, does that ‘feeling’ ever fade or go away with familiarity?.
I know one or two who work in this enviroment post here, perhaps they could give us an answer to that.
Welcome by the way mantog 🙂
By: mantog - 29th March 2006 at 22:02
Hi folks, just registered although been lurking for a cpl of weeks. I read a few threads about East Kirkby so today I took the day off work and drove down to watch the taxi run. Simply magnificent….never got so close to a lancaster before, loved watching the wingtip going over my head! Why is it that the noise, or rather ‘feeling’, of 4 merlins generates so much emotion in me…I was born almost 30 years after the war ended and yet it felt like the sensation was invoking much older and very powerful memories. Very strange.
Loved mooching round the wreckage in the hangar…I could spend days in there. I urge anyone with even a passing interest in aviation to go watch one of these taxi runs.
Bob
By: Denis - 23rd November 2005 at 23:57
Blimey!
I was there too, if I had known a few more of you were going I’d have arranged to say ‘ello’.
Wonderful night as always, finally got to have a trip around whats left of the airfield on the Queen Mary trailer, was that cold or what!, made you think of all those aircrew years ago who worked on the Lancs out in the dispersals, and they were out there all week long no matter what the weather.
A big Thank you to all involved in this unique and special museum.
By: Russ - 23rd November 2005 at 21:12
I don’t think there is a UK museum that comes close to East Kirkby and the way it seems to send you back in time, giving us just a tiny flavour of what it may have been like. The atmosphere is very special indeed.
By: TMN - 23rd November 2005 at 20:23
It was my first taxi-run attendance on Saturday, so I stayed for both the afternoon one and the evening one.
What can I say?
Magical, atmospheric, superb – the list goes on and still I can’t think of words fitting for the impression the evening run has left with me.
I just stood looking at her after she had shut down – I was transfixed.
It was worth the 3 hour (each way) drive, the late night drive home in the fog, and the frozen feet, legs and many other parts(!). I think the settling frost really hightened the atmosphere, and gave everyone in attenadance an impression of what it might have been like back in the early 1940’s.
A very big thankyou to all involved – you have a very unique and special event – long may the runs continue.
TMN
By: 682al - 21st November 2005 at 11:48
And another thanks from me.
It was heartening to see the numbers who turned out for both runs on such a cold day.
God knows how much it costs to keep the aeroplane and the whole site in such excellent condition, and I just hope that these events help ease the financial burden.
Long may they continue!
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