Upkeep

Some Lancasters were eventually converted back and some retained, being used for disposal of the Upkeep mines after the war (Operational Grapple).

I thought Operation Grapple was Britains A bomb tests?

jet

Well all you people who think it’s “Terribly British” would have no problem being near it when this happens:D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTb0QRIt0c

Jet

I think you can take it or leave it, they have run the engine successfully a number of times causing no harm to themselves or anybody else on a custom rig that is concreted to a purpose built platform and is carried out far away (miles) from anyone,

For those of you who can appreciate the eccentricity of running an RB211 in your back garden despite some questionable proximity to it at times I hope you enjoyed the video ;)Matt

I can appreciate what they are doing and I dare say it’s great fun, but if it does go wrong then that custom rig will probably still be concreted to the purpose built platform, it’s just that the engine will be somewhere else.

old

Who remembers “Zoobs their good for your tubes”:D

RB211

I would love to be filming that when it looses a blade or two, because that
rig doesn’t look up to the job to me:D

bombs

Nothing against the RAF effort and it may have been the world’s longest bombing run at the time….but” From 2 to 3 September 1996, two B-52H struck Baghdad power stations and communications facilities with 13 AGM-86C conventional air-launched cruise missiles (CALCM) as part of Operation Desert Strike, a 34-hour, 16,000-mile round trip mission from Andersen AFB, Guam – the longest distance ever flown for a combat mission.”

Also, B-2s have flown combat missions to Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan from Missouri. Some missions are said to have lasted 50 hours.

Nothing against the USAF effort but there is a big difference between flying
OVER hostile territory and dropping BOMBS to flying 16,000 miles and launching cruise missiles whilst flying over friendly territory, how many miles
from launch to target? and whats more why from Guam did they not have
anything nearer to the target or was it as I suspect just a propagandar
effort claim the longest mission. So sorry it was not a bombing mission
All tongue in cheek of course

bolt

By the way,
My friend told me he was hit on the head by a screw that fell from an aircraft, turned out it was a Lightning Bolt
Exit stage left:D

No I think if you look at it closely you will see it’s a Thunder bolt:D