By: Rich Woods - 13th February 2004 at 21:14
Radial engined Lanc? Now that would be fun… have you any more information on her? I was looking more towards ED475 off Hastings, she’s in about 45 ft of water. I know there was an engine pulled up offf her some years ago and she is still supposed to be in fairly good (for salt water) condition. I have some friends who are into diving and they were going to take a peek at her in the summer.
As for Elsie I think I may go across and see some people face to face to stop them avoiding me!
Regards
Richard W
By: Der - 12th February 2004 at 21:38
Richard.
Well done on your persistence. I sincerely hope it pays off one day.
It would be quite something to get the remains of a 617 Lanc back to these shores where she truly belongs.
By: Whitley_Project - 12th February 2004 at 15:42
Hi Richard
Sad to hear that after all the hard work you put in. What about the Lanc off Sandwich Flats? I seem to remember someone telling me it had radials. Possibly 120 Sqn?
By: Rich Woods - 12th February 2004 at 14:36
Slowly!!:D
I have all the permissions bar one. She lies on government land, and I have been told anything that happens on it has to go through local government for the area…
As you can probably guess, they’re not too keen on me recovering the area, and take their time in replying to letters etc, or just don’t.
Most of the local population want the aircraft to stay where it is, or for someone to take it to the UK, stop any corrosion, restore some bits and then send it back for their little museum in Porjus…
Sorry, but if I want to spend loads of money with no results there are pubs in my town that can help me do that! There is a minority who think it should be recovered on principle, as it is the last 617 Lanc. Shame they don’t all think that way.
I’ll gladly help them recover her for their museum to look after but they aren’t interested in that route…so for the forseeable future it looks as though she is going to stay where she is. I see myself as having one course of action now… I will keep pestering until they say yes just to make me go away, or if the situation persists for yet another year I will look for another Lanc.
Regards
Richard W
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