Bae Lostock families day, mid nineties:

PA474 does a flypast and one woman pipes up:

“What’s that?”

“It’s a Lancaster bomber, love”

“Oh yeah, …so where do our missiles go on that then?”

Another good one was some vague anorak clad buffoon at Woodford in 1992:

We were watching him and generally taking the piss anyway when the Red Arrows do a bomb burst from behind and over the crowd line.

Man sh*ts himself and thrashes his arms wildly spilling coffee over the maximum surface area of his body possible, then starts thrashing round again trying to get the scalding hot coffee off his shirt……

Ow!

Paul.:D

Yes, I know of the incident. Not much use, but it is also mentioned in a book (out of print now) that I once got from the library in Wigan.

I can’t remeber the name of the book , but I will be going back up in a few weeks so I will try to get it out. In the book it adds that these are available to see at ‘exceptionally low tides’.

It’s amzing that no one has tried to recover them really is’nt it?

Then again, they could be in the state of the ‘Lancasters buried in the quarry’, – once aircraft that just the outlines now exist of and a few corroded bits of metal….. at least twenty years on…….

If these were seen in the sea in 1984, that means they could have ditched anythimg between 39-45 years before. Add onother twenty years in the sea and sadly they may all be corroded to bits by now……..

Paul.

A few years ago in Flypast, there was an interesting story about the crew of a jet who were flying over somewhere in the far east, when they positively identified a B24 Liberator flying the same heading and a little bit below them…….. The aircraft would not answer the radio and had no working transponder……

Any more information on this???

Yeah, it came over Wood Green the other day….. made an otherwise boring day a pleasure!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paul.

Where did this guy fly from? How often did this happen in WWII, Allies defecting to Axis?

Before he died, my grandad said that he saw a mechanic steal (he could’nt remember what type) an aircraft from Thrapston airfield and claims that they were all told that he had crashed in the sea?

Could this be one in the same case? If not, does anyone know anything about this?

Any information would be appreciated.

Paul.

Well actually, R5858, S-Sugar at Hendon was ordered and laid down as a Manchester, being converted very early in production to a Lancaster…..

Paul.

Well when I went inside in the early nineties, she was a lot more complete than that with none of the instruments missing.

I think that this Vulcan needs to be scrapped in full to be honest. She is too far gone for anything else.

What a shame.

Paul.:(