Two Lancs together 16/11/08

Your correct Blue Max. The immediate nose section is the original long nose from KB976.

It is not often these days you see two Lancasters together.

The location is a top secret airfield location not too far from London.;)

I think the one in the background is part of KB-976, a Lancaster I flew on July 4, 1964 as the last official RCAF flight for the type. My co-pilot was F/L Ralph Langemann. I then purchased KB-976 from Crown Assets Disposal Corporation for inclusion in my collection of classic aircraft. I had already purchased FM-136, still on display in Calgary.
The rest of KB-976 is in Florida.

Jeremy asked that I post some new pictures. The short wartime nose section will be on display until Feb15th when it returns home to Jeremys garage.

One on each arm.The other one’s for the Mossie.

Seing that photo of 976 just reminds me I once had a beautiful Lanc within an hours drive of my house, now residing in a container thousands of miles away in bits.
Yes, I know its been done to death on this forum before. Just wanted to share a moment of self indulgent melancholy.

Likewise ……black armbands for a day ??? 😉

Seing that photo of 976 just reminds me I once had a beautiful Lanc within an hours drive of my house, now residing in a container thousands of miles away in bits.
Yes, I know its been done to death on this forum before. Just wanted to share a moment of self indulgent melancholy.

The Camouflaged cockpit was on display at the Biggin Hill airshow about (?6-7) years back, I think.

Visited Brooklands for the first time last month – what a great museum. R-Robert is quite spectacular close-up, and although some of the airframes are replicas, they are very very good ones (esp. the Camel). On the day I was there with my family, they were giving rides up the hill-climb, round the top of the hill (where the outfit that has obtained the rights to AC Cars is going to set up a small propduction facility), and on the surviving section of the famous embankment. Topped 40 mph which felt fast enough in the dicky seat at the back – apparently the top racers went up to 120mph – talk about nerves of steel! Sitting in their Concorde I felt quite nostalgic for the flight I’ll never have in that great aeroplane….

The nose of KB976 looks about normal length here.

The extreme nose on the full length fuselage is the original long nose section from KB976. The nose section in the forground is Jeremys Lancaster Cockpit

Brooklands, yes.

The longer aluminium fuselage is a rough-ish mock-up for internal filming, used in that BBC prouction ‘ Night Flight’ . It has slightly odd external flanges at the joins of the sections, which I photo-shopped out !

Was this Lancaster fuselarge with the Thorpe Camp collection in Lincs. If not does anybody have any info on that one.

Are these lancaster sections now at Brooklands then?

KB976 is the Ex-Strathallan Lanc right?

It appears to have a lengthened nose as was the case with some Canadian post -war Lancs.

Colin

I believe they are both owned by Jeremy Hall.

Bruce

so not alot of original parts?

One is the Jeremy Hall cockpit I believe and the other looks to be newly made but fitted with the extreme nose of KB976?

Any info
Cees

thats two more around then what i thought!

Brooklands

Cheers

Cees