Lancaster Question

Here’s food for thought… the same thing happened to a fully laden Boeing 737-classic in South America (Peruvian a I recall) many years ago. During a turn (left), the artificial horizon stuck. When it released itself, the aircraft was almost inverted. The crew immediately corrected the situation (hard right roll), not realising that the instrument had jammed again. Apparently it was inverted when it hit the mountain….

I was here…

JDK…
I was here I was just sitting on the sidelines waiting to see if anyone would guess the right answer… Good to see you are up on your lancaster types though mate! 🙂

Pah.

It was late.

All good authors add a ‘deliberate mistak’ to catch copyists.

My books are in a steel box and I’m not.

Where were you when we needed you?

Choose your preffered excuse.. 🙂 😀

Mark X?
JDK shame on you LOL

Thanks all I knew I could count on you 🙂

ME545 of the Central Signals Establishment.

“Lovely Lou” of 218 Sqn. in an earlier life. There are published photos of her in this guise, too.

ME540 to ME549 were all Lancaster Mk.III’s.

Serial is ME54? – the last digit could be a 6

Opening bid.
Postwar (underwing serials present) Mk.I / III or X.

Unshrouded exhaust, lean mixture engines, H2S radar fitted. Guns appear to be absent, possible Rose tail turret – but can’t really tell.

That’s all I can guess at . Someone with a serials book please?

😀

Crew positions on the Lanc:

Bomb aimer/nose gunner
Pilot
Flight engineer
Navigator
Wireless operator
Mid upper gunner
Rear gunner.

As the mid upper gunner was displaced in the Dams Raid lancs by the removal of the turret, he was placed in the nose turret (hence the stirrups which weren’t previously required).

Hi

Hope we get another flying again soon

Maybe the one at Duxford 🙂

Shame the one at Hendon wont ever move again still its nice and safe their 🙂

That’s it then, 28 years since another Lanc has flown here! (Unless you count ‘611’s tail flying along the runway!)

KB976 was delivered to Strathallan by air from Edmonton, June 11, 1975. Must have been quite the adventure!!
🙂

Think Steve’s got it right. 976 came over in the early 70’s.
Wish it was still here………..:(

Off the top of my head (dangerous!) I think NX611 last flew in 1970, but that would still make Steve right about KB976.

Not my area of expertise, but I’d guess it would be KB976, when she flew over from Canada for the Strathallan Collection. Early seventies? I know NX611 was flying regularly from about 1967 until about 1969, but I think KB976 was a bit later. Sorry it’s a bit vague….

…and Jack Currie lost both his ailerons over the target and still brought the thing home, as told in his ‘Lancaster Target’; I think there may have been a few niggles that were ironed out with the wings in the earliest days, but it’s far, far too early in the morning to try looking stuff up right now!!! 😮

Thinking back to something I read in Lancaster at War about this incident a while ago,I remember that the armourers did an equally commendable job to make the aircraft safe as the pilot/aircrew did in bringing her down safely.
As has been mentioned,she was carrying mines,which were made live on contact with salt water.Nothing could be done with the wreck untill these were made safe,which meant that the armourers had to cut access holes into the bomb-bay to get access to the mines,which were submerged in sand and water for much of the time,making the already dangerous job extremely difficult.

Guzzineil.

I would imagine Roy Chadwick became involved because it was the first operational loss of the type.

Let’s hope you find out a bit more.

Regards,

kev35

thanks for that Kev… the article I read implied some sort of strutural problem, which was what intrigued me.. I’m sure that Lancman will be able to enlighten us..