John Dibbs (photographer) posted this on Oct 2nd on his fb page
 

”This week has been bucket-list worthy. I undertook Aerial Direction and filming of the Lancaster with the BBMF – a dream come true… This was definitely worth a 14 day quarantine!

We filmed over the Derwent Dam for Lancaster The Feature Documentary, it is truly an emotional and inspiring shoot. To be there, capturing such an iconic event from history, being played out for the screen to share with the film’s audience will stay with us all forever.

Aerial filming is a team effort. I took this picture from the Squirrel B3 helicopter expertly flown by Will Banks of theThe Aerial Film Company Jim Swanson on the controls as DOP.

Big thank-you also to everyone at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (Official), an amazing team of great people. Also the Directors of the documentary David Fairhead, Ant Palmer of Tallboy Productions. It was great to have the creative team that made the Spitfire documentary back together

You won’t want to miss Lancaster: The Feature Documentary coming out next year. Stay tuned for updates! ”

They flew over to the States in 1997.
 

”Delta Jets of Kemble were contracted to make WT327 ready for a ferry flight to Kemble and then to do the relevant work to enable the aircraft to depart for the USA. WT327 (G-BXMO) arrived in October 1997 and needed much less work than XH567 to get ready, so work commenced immediately. While all this was going on Delta Jets gained CAA approval to add the Canberra to their exposition, which added another string to their bow.

After completion of the work on WT327, Delta Jets obtained the necessary paperwork from the CAA and the Canberra departed Kemble for the USA on Saturday 6th December 1997. This was the first Canberra ever to be ferried across the Atlantic on the British civil register. After its departure and after the break over Christmas, Delta Jets returned to re-commence work on XH567.”

http://www.bywat.co.uk/wt327.html

Photo AirPlatform’s two Canberras at the NASA Ames Research Centre
XH567 on the left, WT327 on the right (Photo : Ross Falconer, Program Manager)

Cripes !   Scary stuff, thank goodness the evacuation had been adequate, and nobody injured.

Hmm… makes you wonder about the ammo- laden SS Richard Montgomery off Sheerness, Kent. 

We have to ask, which is yours ?
I’ll guess Tiger Moth (‘cos there are more of them than anything else…) 

Thanks for posting the link. It is always a bit disappointing to make a post and have not a single acknowledgement. 

I watched as much as I could but had to break off. Hopefully there is a catch-up facility.

It is perhaps a case of perpetuation rather than preservation, for the moment at least. 

As Simondav suggested, the history of  aeroplane/diners/ bunkhouses is a bit patchy and plenty end in a rather distressed ( and terminal) state.

Perhaps we could take encouragement from the Avro York at Dx, which for years was used by the Scouts at Lasham as a bunkhouse but finally made the transition into long-term preservation. 

A small update ( and with a list that long there must be a few !)

The B-25 that seemed doomed to rust into oblivion at Wycombe Air Park ( as quoted above ) has been saved by the Wings Aviation Museum in Sussex who are doing great work,  that she waited 40 years for !

Photo from their facebook page (Bedsheet Bomber )