The show season started least weekend, and the Lancaster made a cracking start with a very dynamic display, with three really cranked up topside passes, curving round the display line. A new crew for the season perhaps, but they really seem keen to present the aeroplane in style. Many people agreed it was the best display in three decades.
On Sat 13th, it had a full schedule of maybe 12 venues, and as low cloud sat squarely over Southern England, it looked like an inevitable stand-down. But wait ! After an hour on hold, word spread that PA474 was actually airborne, just about the only movement in Lincs.
I saw it at Hyde Heath village Fete nr Great Missenden, and it put on a great show. and made the day ! In truth, the weather never really picked up much, and no light aircraft were seen all day.
They used to say ”The bomber will always get through’. Maybe there is something in it….
By: adrian_gray - 20th May 2023 at 10:29
I caught her as she came over Kidlington have flownn over (presumably, as it was the anniversary of VE Day) Churchill’s grave and birthplace – she was low and motoring, a great sight. What must they have looked and sounded like on full chat as Dad saw them on the way to Abberton reservoir at zero feet….
By: Duggy1 - 17th May 2023 at 21:32
Great photo, thanks for posting.
By: Prop Strike - 17th May 2023 at 09:07
The Lancaster has drawn huge public attention from the 80th anniversary Dambuster flypast, which must have been seen by millions,starting at RAFM museum Hendon, then flypasts at RAF High Wycombe, Halton, Wyton and 28 (!) historic sites across Lincs.
I watched from the Coombe Hill Monument, above the Aylesbury Vale, and it rumbled in past Chequers ( PM House) right over the top of us, cranked in a right hand turn towards Halton, and then away, with that classic profile receding into the evening sky, and the low growl echoing across the landscape, a powerful evocation of the endeavours of 617 Squadron, on that May evening, 1943.
By: thomas.haynes - 15th May 2023 at 16:57
That is a cracking photo! I bet it was quite the spectacle watching the aircraft display.
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