Sitting between the top two Lancaster front ends.

When I first saw the photo, my immediate thoughts on that section was Meteor fuselage. Definitely not Lincoln/Lancaster.

I think there are also some Lanc centre sections or wing sections behind the stack of noses, so probably there were other fuselage sections in there as well, in other words, complete dismantled Lancasters.

Probably Mark VII’s, held in M.U.s until the early fifties, of which a few found their way to brief stardom in The Dam Busters and Appointment in London.

From the Pathe news web-site, I downloaded an RAF instruction film on rescuing aircrew from crashed aircraft. The first section features a brand new looking Lancaster BVII, sitting on the grass with retracted u/c. It is set on fire and then hacked into by fire crew. The second scene features a BI/III. This one is sitting on the grass, too, but the props are bent backwards as though it had actually bellied in. It gets the same treatment.

I just broke off typing this to watch the film again…alright, common sense tells you they were just worthless scrap airframes fulfilling one last useful role before the smelter got them, but it still breaks yer ‘art…

‘night all, don’t have too many bad dreams.

Just a snap over the fence at International Alloys in Aylesbury circa 1957.

You’re breaking my heart, but please keep posting!

Hi MarkG,

Yes, it’s Sunday, 7th November, and as far as I can recall, it’s back at the old venue, which is the Sports Centre in Whitwick (not hard to find, and there are signs for the ‘jumble).

There’s usually a good selection of stalls, and many of them do not make it down to Shoreham and Popham, etc, so there’s always a chance of a new “find” or two.

I think it had become a very good event in the last few years, but then it seems to have suffered a set-back after the switch from Saturday to Sunday. But, it deserves our support (particularly from the southern half of the country…), and hopefully it will get back into it’s stride.

Hi folks,

Try:-

Barracuda, Roc, Lysander I and II

regards!

682al

I found this page some years ago. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of the contents but it appears to have originated in a Russian Aviation magazine in the 1990’s….

http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/ModelArticles/Duffy/Lancaster/index.php

In some ways it does fit with the stories/legends/rumours I’ve heard about the 9 and 617 Sqn Lancasters which force landed on Russian territory during Operation Paravane.

As for silent Lancs connected with top secret Vulcan replacements…an elderly couple witness this amazing new-production Lanc and then get the whole tale confirmed by a B.A.E. man at an airshow? Erm, no, I’ll not voice my thoughts…

Thanks, Flood.

I seem to remember seeing several Shackleton Mk. II nose sections (i.e. up to, but not including the cockpit) but our panel seems to be a Mk. I or maybe Mk. 4 type.

Thanks for the Failsworth listing, Bograt, it’s the most comprehensive I’ve ever seen.

Pity there is no mention of a Shackleton on the list, as me and my pal pulled this early Shackleton panel out from under a pile of rubble, just as the yard was closing. It was almost bare, and the right hand half was missing altogether. British Aerospace at Chester made us a replacement as an apprentice project.

I wish we could get an i.d. for the aircraft!

The hatch has me puzzled, too.

I always thought access to the turret was by rotating it to the beam and climbing in from the rear.

If the hatch is an escape hatch, where was it fitted, since the radiator was almost directly below the turret? And the aerial wire was stretched between the two masts which were installed on the centre line of the fuselage underside?

Just curious!