Lancaster NX622 engine run

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Hmm, point taken! Well, let’s get ’em all indoors and roll our sleeves up and get cracking then, shall we?!

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 03-10-02 AT 03:00 PM (GMT)]Lancman. i disagree with you here mate. there is still lots of lanc related items around that are available. look at the recent cash of lanc bits that were being offered by a broker in the us recently. cowlings engine spares flight control surfaces including the huge wing flaps. thankfully alot of the interior items on a lanc are common even up to the canberra aircraft..!
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Just as the RAF saw sense and brought all it’s Spitfires and Hurricanes in from the cold a a few years back, NO Lancaster should be left outside, no matter how carefully ‘looked after’, as there are precious fe wof them and they should all be saved, NOW. But here’s a thought-big as it is, can one country support the restoration of so many Lancs? There are only so many bits and pieces about you know!

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Thanks Peter..that’s pretty much what I had figured with regards to Greenwood’s Lancaster. Still it would make a good starting point for an excellent complete restoration project!

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Hello Der.
The Lancaster at Greenwood Kb839 is pretty much a gutted shell inside. very little remains of the interior. There is no control wheel or throttle quadrant or instruments. I have photos of the interior but due to copyright law, I am not allowed to post these on the internet until my friends book has been published.
Cheers,
Peter

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Sorry- just noticed my post is in the wrong place- should have been directly afetr Hattons. Oops.

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Alternatively we could buy Hendon a very large budgie…..!

Lancaster KB839

On a different note but still Lancaster restoration related. I know that Greenwood’s Lancaster KB839 had donated it’s engines to CWHM’s Lancaster many years ago along with some other usable parts. I was wondering how much of the plane’s interior is left? Is the cockpit get gutted? have all the interior fitting been removed? It was repainted a few years ago and looks very nice in it’s post war colours but I don’t think any interior restoration was done at that time. A guess?

Just anyone have any information on this one. It also deserves to be kept uncover also…38 years outdoors and counting!

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Its very commendable of them to get the engine running on the starter motor but if they cant follow that up by actually getting the engines running, its seems a waste. Nevermind, it’s better than nothing.

I cant imagine ill ever see a couple of Lancs in formation in my lifetime. Even when i saw two B17s together (flying legends) they insisted on flying them miles apart 🙁

-steve

ps- could we PLEASE club together and get lancman a large hacksaw this christmas!!! 😉

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Absolutely, these precious machines must ALL be brought indoors before it’s to late!

Sadly I can’t see us seeing 2 Lancs flying together here for a long, long time, if at all. The CWH just don’t seem to want to bring theirs over here, where it would be very well greeted, and where a much higher percentage of any given crowd it was flying over would know (and appreciate!) what it actually was!!! And of course, there’s no question of ‘474 heading to the US. But if the CWH machine did come over, I can well imagine a lot of cooperation from the BBMF re. the two operating together at a lot of events for a year-it would be SUCH a special occasion.

NX611 seems to be staying where she is, happy trundling around that little bit of East Kirkby, and in a way, perhaps operating machines like this on the ground only is a commendable way to go in some cases. The rare plane is at hugely reduced risk from crashes, will last so much longer, etc etc. Of course flying is best, BUT, I can think of a LOT of airframes I’d love to see at least as operational as ‘611, rather than gathering the proverbial dust in a badly lit museum, with their tails up on ridiculous and pointless budgie perches….

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Ok,thanks Peter.I was sure they’d already been fitted,sorry about that.Whilst it would be good news in a sense to have them refitted,I can’t help feeling that the rest of the machine should be following them into the workshop,rather than the ailerons going back out!Keep sending those letters folks…

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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 28-09-02 AT 04:52 PM (GMT)]OK come on now dont get me started on this one ;0) I would love for anything to see at least 3 or four lancs together in the air at once. Heck I would even settle for two together. If the americans can do it with the B17s, why cant we get KB889,474 and 611 in the air for one year?

Steve…
I dont think they will ever run the engines as the aircraft is like most lancasters now, stuck in a permanent building? one can only dream though……

BTW Ant.. the ailerons on 212 are still in the shop as they have yet to be recovered in fabric. I do hope they can make it and get them reinstalled before winter sets in….

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Don’t count out FM212 if The Windsor Lancaster Group have anything to do with it! 🙂

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A wonderful thought!

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Do they intend on getting the engines fully operational? If so we could, with a bit of luck, have five operational lancs in 5 or 10 years time. FM159 FM213 PA474 NX622 and NX611!!!!! 🙂

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Looks great! Couldn’t agree more about the planes sitting quietly thing though-how I wish some of the things in Hendon could even see some daylight, let alone anything do else!