As the civilian project manager for the Lanc to date I’ve kept quiet on this and any forum. I’d like to firstly mention the Nose Art: I have for weeks kept the nose art under wraps on the instruction of the MOD. Anyone who has been allowed in to see the aircraft whilst its been under maintenance has been told that they may take pictures for personal use only and they were not to be published as BBMF were planning a big event at the end of April when they wished to “reveal” the new artwork. I would say 99.99% have followed that simple request and for all of those I thank you. Anyone who was on the pan last week for the air test knew the team who had been working on the aircraft – big badges “Lancaster Major Team” – and could have asked that now the nose art was on show could it be published. Again those of you who took photographs and were itching to publish I thank you for not doing so. I was at the event on Friday and although the pictures were by then in the public domain I dont think it detracted from it in any way. Well done all involved.
Regarding the paintwork, there are mistakes but as Fluffy mentioned we were using an original Avro publication that was none to clear and in many cases we used pictures taken from Micky the Moucher – if that was wrong then unfortunely we made the same mistakes. Fluffy informs me that the publication has now been cleaned up and is far more legible so who ever does it next may have more offical information than we had.
At this point I’d like to pass on my thanks to everyone invloved, from the team that worked on the aircraft putting in a huge amount of additional hours and sacrificed many weekends, the many sub-contractors involved who made their contribution to the project in good time, Col and the ground crew at Coningsby who supported us with every request that we made. Everyone pulled together to get the aircraft back to Coningsby with 36 hours to spare, good luck or good project management ?
Bruce
Bruce,
As an ex flight member, can i also say well done and thanks what the team have done, the bitch looks great.
As for the mistakes, the only people who will moan are the so called expert researchers / roundle police. I personally don’t give a toss for there coments all i say is, what exact scheme have they painted their Spitfire/Lancaster in.
I have a very close famiy tie to Lancasters in service both WWII and post. The only time they looked as stated in AM contract fom was just before they left Castle Brom, Chadderton, Woodford etc.
So ******em, well done again and thanks..
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