Yikes! 😮

A good reminder of the professionalism of all the BBMF crews that that ensure moments like that are so rare!

Its a simple fact of life that even the most benign tailwheel aeroplane will try and bite you sometime.

And I guess that the Lancaster is far from benign. Witness the number of landing and takeoff accidents when they were in service!

I guess from that lifted wing, plus the swing into what I guess must have been into wind, that there must have been a fairly spirited crosswind that day.

Mind you, I can wander around the runway like that, even when the wind’s straight down it!! 😀

A stunning reproduction and a fine tribute to one of Britain’s greatest pilots.
As TT said, Alex himself would have been proud.

Don’t forget though, thanks to Taff Smith at Breighton, not only does the ORIGINAL still exist, it flies regularly. That’s how it should be for such a fine aeroplane! :diablo:

Just look for the famous film actress Olivia de Havilland, who was related to the aircraft mogul – I think his daughter.
Bri 😀

She and her sister Joan Fontaine, were Sir Geoffrey de Havilland’s cousins.

I seem to recollect reading somewhere that they both were qualified light aircraft pilots and not averse to ‘hitching’ a ride in things like two-seat Vampires when they visited the UK in the 1950s!

I understand that the Real Aeroplane Company still hope to fly the Swalesong Luton Minor G-AMAW with its Cherub one day, but sadly some key parts were taken away for restoration and subsequently ‘were lost track of’ some years ago.

I’m sure that anyone who stumbles across them would be welcomed with open arms by Taff Smith and his team.

It would be great to see, not to mention hear, a Cherub in action. I gather than it breaks all records in the proportion of noise produced in relation to power! :diablo:

There’s nothing on their official website http://www.airmuseum.be, which hasn’t been updated since 2007.

The ‘friends’ website, http://www.bamf.be, shows a lot of activities still going ahead this year so far!

Must get across their too, before the closure, both to take a look at their BE-2 and the latest progress on Tipsy Trainer G-AFJR.

That should keep the Old Warden ‘blinging squad’ polishing for a while! 😀

Interesting advice. Thank You.

Now trying to pluck up the courage to tidy up some repairs on the Tipsy’s engine cowling.

…..and I think I’ll practice a lot on some scrap first!! 😉