Lancaster NX664

Now that would be the star of the show at Cockpitfest.:p

Who’s been spying on Bill’s list for next year???? :p:p

Looks to be outdated by 4 years now. That might be a good sign as they are working very hard on the old girl and dont have time to update the sight?!

http://pagesperso-orange.fr/eternal.flight/wu21/lancasteracl_e.html

Corr i would say so , think i would to scared to transport it 😉

Now that would be the star of the show at Cockpitfest.:p

Any updates as it has all gone quiet..?

On a related note, I’m saddened to hear that John Barton passed away a few days ago.

He was one of the stalwarts of the RAF Bomber Command NZ Association and I was just one of the many people he must have contacted in his efforts to track down missing parts for NX664.

No doubt others on the board will have come to know him through his long distance phone calls too.

I’m sure MOTAT’s site would have borne a suitable note about his passing had it not been wrecked. 😡

R.I.P. John, a great bloke.

Yup, same here too, seems the site has been well and truly hijacked and is currently usless, however looking around I located a few sites with the odd pikkie or two. Guess untill they clear the fleas out of the site we will get no more information.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/lancregistry/lanc-nx664.html

http://lancasterfm159.freeservers.com/images/lanctitle.jpg

http://groupeaeronefs.free.fr/even22_fichiers/pages/page21.htm

Just a shot in the dark but couldn’t the G be because it had a new version of H2S or Monica on board?

Regards,

kev35

Hi Peter,

If you click on the link on my previous message (didn’t really understand how to post a picture here), you will see a picture of the part I was refering too, and the paint is grey, no problem about that, and it’s the belly of the plane just after the bomb bay. I suppose this is a kind of special marking.

Anyway, it’s too wide to be a steady marking.

Laurent

stripe

Laurent did this stripe go around the belley from left to right? as it sounds like it was the rear steady marking and was red.
Peter

ND689/G

Hello DHFAN,

Regarding ND689/G, I got the info from the book “RAF Bomber Command Losses, 1944 volume”, but so far have not found the answer.

One very strange thing is that we recovered a part of the belly, from the rear wall of the bombbay to the hole for the radar, and there was a grey stripe of about 20 inches wide painted on the black paint. Could anyone explain why this grey stripe, and if it was only on the belly and/or the side of the fuselage, or even all around the fuselage.

I am currently working on an update of this page (with a lot of pictures), so if anyone has any kind of info about the plane and/or its crew, I would be very interested.

I will put a message on this forum when it is updated.

Best regards,

Laurent

Excellent site.

Just bumping this up and adding this link.

http://www.chez.com/eternalflight/nd689.html

It’s a request for help regarding a dig a few years ago.

Puzzles me a bit as well. Why would the Lanc have a G suffix. (I know what it means, I’m just wondering what needed guarding.)

Great Site

Hello Laurent,
You are doing a great job on NX664! The updated website looks great!
Cheers
Peter