A nice idea, but the 500 foot rule will preclude 60 feet swoops over the dam itself.
”Pilot, Will Flanagan, 32, said: ‘All the Lancaster pilots would have learnt to fly in a Tiger Moth just like this one.
‘I fly as low as I can on the ‘Dam Buster Run Missions’ but I can’t imagine how they managed to fly those bombers at only sixty feet above the water – especially with people shooting at them.
‘I get a buzz from flying it, the provenance, smell and feel of an open cockpit – there’s nothing like feeling the wind blowing through your hair – it’s what I’d call real flying.
‘I recently flew an RAF veteran who’d worked as a ground based engineer on Lancasters during the war – he had never flown in a Lancaster but wanted to know what it felt like to fly over the dams. He found it very emotional – it’s a very nostalgic trip for some of the older guys.”
By: Alan Clark - 11th May 2012 at 01:42
Is he sure they all trained on Tiger Moths? There’s a good chance at least a couple did their EFTS courses on Magisters, or maybe even something like a Hart as some of the pre-war E&RFTS establishments flew those (among other types) and they continued into the earlier part of the war.
By: Alan Clark - 11th May 2012 at 01:42
Is he sure they all trained on Tiger Moths? There’s a good chance at least a couple did their EFTS courses on Magisters, or maybe even something like a Hart as some of the pre-war E&RFTS establishments flew those (among other types) and they continued into the earlier part of the war.
By: Dave Wilson - 10th May 2012 at 23:57
Don’t forget it’s 500′ away from vessels, structures and people, which means in theory as long as you’re at 500′ when over the dams, easily done with a pull up, you can fly down the reservoir at whatever height you like, so long as there are no canoeists etc on it.
It would be p*** p*** airmanship but it wouldn’t be illegal.
Mind you, is a reservoir classed as a ‘structure’?
By: Dave Wilson - 10th May 2012 at 23:57
Don’t forget it’s 500′ away from vessels, structures and people, which means in theory as long as you’re at 500′ when over the dams, easily done with a pull up, you can fly down the reservoir at whatever height you like, so long as there are no canoeists etc on it.
It would be p*** p*** airmanship but it wouldn’t be illegal.
Mind you, is a reservoir classed as a ‘structure’?
By: richw_82 - 10th May 2012 at 23:07
If what I’ve seen fairly regularly while walking around those reservoirs is anything to go by, the 500 foot rule doesn’t put all that many off. Last time I was up there the local Police helicopter was having a crack at re-enacting the dams raid practices.
By: richw_82 - 10th May 2012 at 23:07
If what I’ve seen fairly regularly while walking around those reservoirs is anything to go by, the 500 foot rule doesn’t put all that many off. Last time I was up there the local Police helicopter was having a crack at re-enacting the dams raid practices.
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