I remember being at Coningsby when the Lancaster had a serious engine problem, just after take-off. She was on her way to Yeovilton (I think), to do the Poppy drop over the Channel during the D-Day 50th anniversary celebration.

I’m not sure but I seem to remember it being declared as an engine fire, but she certainly landed very quickly, with 3 engines running.

Co-incidently, I went to East Kirkby the next day, and saw “JustJane” fire up the 1st of her engines.

Regards, Cabbage

I watched her take off and the STB outer(? a whiles ago now,memories foggy) start puffing out loads of smoke. It was like a WW2 movie scene. By the time she had gone downwind the smoke had near enough gone. The fire station sprang into action in the fastest time ever…. Once again i was up in the hanger when the cowlings were taken off. The sooties took the Rocker covers off and it was if someone had taken a lump hammer to the parts inside the right bank of the engine. Swarf in the oil was what it was put down to but unsure as to exactly where it had come from due to the damage..

Ive got a piston from the engine that was given to me on an engraved plaque as a leaving prezzy in 1994

On aproach PA474 is crabbing sideways. note how the nose is pointing towards the camera, Note also the positioning of the WW1 aircraft at the far end of the airfield before the windsock comes into play. At least two of them have engines running ready for take off and display. They would pretty much take off from where they are standing and would be face into wind (if its not a gentle breeze).

From the cameraman point of view I would say the wind is coming from behind and over his left shoulder. PA474 i would say is landing into a 50/50 nose/crosswind with the rudders being kicked all over the place.

Not sure if your meant to be breaking that early into a landing run as the control surfaces would still have plenty of moving air around them. Although the tail surfaces would be masked by the wings slightly and make them less effective when the tail is down.

It all seemed to happen at that crossover point when your not quite fully on the ground but your not flying either.. At which point it turn in to a juggling act for the pilot.

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Must have looked a bit like this then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kDgRYQFMs

DAI

Crikey i dont remember it being this bad!!! 😮

Ha ha cheers, no probs.. i must have taken a good couple of rolls of film as usual when visiting a place like this.. If it was a modern camera i would have hundreds n hundreds of shots