By: Macfire - 18th August 2005 at 11:28
I used to have a copy of the Aeroplane annual, I think from 1955 showing amongst other jems a couple of pics of the Lanc on its last operational flight by the school of MR.
I hate to say it but that paint scheme seemd to make the Lancs look OLD…
Wish I still had that book..
By: DocStirling - 17th August 2005 at 18:17
I met a chap through work the other day, who did his national service in the 50’s, working on Lancs. He was on a team that took one Lanc per year out of storage and got it back to flying capability, ready for use by the Maritime Unit. They were used to drop life boats to ships in distress. I wonder if this was the unit he meant?
DS
By: dhfan - 17th August 2005 at 17:40
You’ve posted some interesting pics over the last few days.
Horrifying to think that what are now museum pieces, or extinct, were still in service when I was born with some years to go in some cases. Spifire, Lancaster, Sunderland, Hornet, Mosquito just to name a few. They were probably still building some of them!
A suggestion: save your pictures as jpg rather than bmp or png. They’ll be a lot smaller and upload and download much quicker.
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