Please remember that for a B1.1, you will need 2 years relevant experience within a Part 145 company – assuming you are training with a Part 147 registered school- if not, you will need 5 years experience. The experience must be on European registered jet propelled aircraft weighing over 5700Kg.

If its a B1.3 you are gaining, the same weight restriction applies, as does the Part 145 company.

I have experience on the BBMF’s Lancaster (as a civillian, and it does not count towards my B1 licence – just 6 months of ambition fulfilled….

Oh and Scott, your best bet is to talk to Newcastle Aviation Academy (since you’re just down the road from us!) You will need RELEVANT qualifications to gain access to the B1 / Foundation degree course, but to get on our lead in course (or anyone elses) you will need 5 GCSE’s at C or above in Maths, English and a science. All courses are full time.
OR you could try licence by post… 35 quid an exam…. oh and a couple of grand for the notes.

That MLG bogie looks like all its for for is scrap…..

The BBMF certainly do charge for appearances. What you have to do is enter a bid for the display charge. They will then look at the income vs the expenditure, hours, transit time, etc. They will then select which events to attend with the aircraft available. Hence we haven’t seen the Lanc display at Sunderland airshow for 2 years. I hasten to add that the BBMF are by far the cheapest option for getting a WW2 warbird to a display.

The Weeks Lancaster is the former Strathallen one. Damaged in a hangar collapse and moved across to Florida in a series of boxes. It is still there, or at least was in August, still in the packing crates, untouched. It is way down the list of restorations apparently. There are sections of the same aircraft spread far and wide, but Weeks has the majority of it including the nose, and wings. Apparently he has parts of KB944 too.

external pictures show nothing… I’m an aircraft engineer… 😀
Nice pic though. Find the Lancaster major at Coventry thread and see some of mine – naked Lanc!
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=66623&highlight=PA474+coventry
Spars, wing joints, primary structure….

The ‘Warwick’ wing structure is not warwick, or wing.. or aeroplane for that matter!… It is the tailplane of the YAM halifax reproduction – this original tailplane lacked structural strength and sagged when fitted. It was subsequently replaced with a much improved version.

As I recall, what you have labelled as Wellington is actually Warwick….

taken from the unpublished memoirs of LAC (aircrew) Pete Humphries:

…The target is thirty feet long, which included the stabilising ten feet of net at the end. It was 5 feet wide with a five foot pole at its leading edge which contained a five pound weight at the base which helps to stabilise the target itself…

1000 ft of cable used during the tow.

This was the description of targets used on Battles at Hawarden 57OTU. From1943, they switched to sleeve targets and Martinets at Eshott.