Hi guys ( and gals 😉 )
has anyone here ever been to one of the night runs at east kirkby? does the lanc actually taxi in the dark or is it a stationary engine run?
I also read on the http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk website that they have pyrotechnic displays to show how the airfield would look under attack. Has anyone been to one of these and are these done at night too?
ive only been to the day events before.and am trying to get along to one of the night runs.
many thanks,
steve
ps- if anyone has any photos of these night runs id love to see them, the only photo ive ever seen is the much used (although very good) flypast one.
By: Bluebird Mike - 28th September 2002 at 17:45
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
LOL!!!:D
By: Moggy C - 27th September 2002 at 22:20
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
>Oh yes, or lets just pass a law whereby the arrogant,
>selfish idiots who feel the need to have six whole feet of
>windbreak-protected flightline all to themselves can in fact
>have the very same windbreaks rolled up, lightly oiled, and
>shoved…
You do talk a load of bollox Lancman.
Sand, not oil!
Moggy 😉
By: Bluebird Mike - 27th September 2002 at 17:17
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
Oh yes, or lets just pass a law whereby the arrogant, selfish idiots who feel the need to have six whole feet of windbreak-protected flightline all to themselves can in fact have the very same windbreaks rolled up, lightly oiled, and shoved…
By: Hatton - 27th September 2002 at 10:23
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
Yes, theres been some great photos published on here in the past.
Still looking forward to any photos of the night runs if anyone has any.It will help me plan in advance and save time looking through the viewfinder 🙂
-steve
ps- how about adding “leave the windbreakers at home” onto the back of those tickets 😉
By: Moggy C - 27th September 2002 at 10:04
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
>i remember once using a Camcorder at an airshow on the
>Lancaster to catch its display routine, it spoilt the
>experience so i never bothered again.
>
>best regards, steve
Sage words Steve.
They should be inscribed on the back of every airshow ticket!
Moggy
(Mind you I have enjoyed some of the shots posted here)
By: Hatton - 27th September 2002 at 09:51
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
i COMPLETELY agree moggy. Media can’t replace the actual experience.
i remember once using a Camcorder at an airshow on the Lancaster to catch its display routine, it spoilt the experience so i never bothered again. At least with still images you can set up the camera beforehand, take a few well thought out photographs and then enjoy the rest of the experience.
By doing this i can combine by uni studies with an interest which is better than photographing something im not remotely interested in 🙂
best regards, steve
By: Moggy C - 27th September 2002 at 09:40
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
>i study photography and video so im afraid i need to be
>looking through a viewfinder 😉
Understand that. But when you study the images you have captured of the Lancaster night run, however proficient you may be, all you will learn is:
There are some things that CANNOT be caught in a camera. This is one of them.
And in learning it, you have actually missed the reality.
Trust me, I’m an ad man.
Moggy
By: Hatton - 27th September 2002 at 09:28
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
i study photography and video so im afraid i need to be looking through a viewfinder 😉
thanks again,
steve
By: Peter - 27th September 2002 at 03:14
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
C’mon Lancman…..
Thats why you make a return visit..! capture the experience first hand the first visit then video it later…
By: Bluebird Mike - 26th September 2002 at 22:38
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
Nice post, Moggy. Too many people think the be-all and end-all of these things is to get it on their little video camera, to watch later. What about the experience?
By: Moggy C - 26th September 2002 at 21:55
RE: Lancaster Night Runs.
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 26-09-02 AT 09:56Â PM (GMT)]Yes I have.
It was one of the most spine-tingling, hairs-standing-up-on-the-back-of-my-neck experience of my depressingly long life.
Didn’t see the pyros, they must be more recent, but I really don’t think they are necessary.
The sight and sound of that glorious survivor trundling off into the night with the moon reflecting off the perspex as it winds its way down the taxiway takes you back instantly sixty or more years.
If you are not moved by it, you aren’t alive.
Pictures? No way!
If you think I’d waste a second of those moments staring through a little glass window when I can actually see the thing in real life in front of me you must be joking.
Two pints of Draught Bass in the pub down the road – must have been used by the crews – puts you in the right mood. The slight discomfort of the wind, colder than ever now night has fallen. The sound of the first engine cranking into life, the other’s joining it, the crescendo as all four power together to overcome inertia.
Capture that in a little rectangular 2D image or shaky video? Forget it.
Go there and live the experience.
Then go back. And thank your God for the Pantons.
I will.
Moggy
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