RE: New Lancaster Video

Glad to hear that the night runs will be featured too-my own post about this video is currently down on page 4 of this forum!

RE: Queen mother funeral flypast

It would be nice to see ‘474 painted up as a less ‘famous’ Lanc for a change, they always seem to go for quite well known, high scoring Lancs. Having said that, I think this is one of the best coats of paint she’s ever worn.

One I’d LOVE to see, though I don’t know if they’d ever do it as the real one still exists, would be to fly her as a Hendon’s ‘Sugar’-famous, distinctive, a good tribute to the exisiting plane etc; any one else have a scheme they’d like to see the Lanc carry?

RE: BBMF Lanc Flypast

Check if they have a new pilot caled Gibson-that might answer everything!!!

Try ringing the BBMF directly though-I should think their participation list is long printed by now, and it’s just the website which is behind.

RE: Wheres it gone?

No, I’ve not seen that bare patch-perhaps it’s a new repair? Whereabouts is it?

RE: Wheres it gone?

I beleive the H2S is correct for Sugar-she was around so long, almost starting life as a Manchester and lasting the whole war-that she must have had everything and the kitchen sink fitted at one point!

I never got what they were trying to achieve with the tail-up thing-are we supposed to think that this tightly-hemmed into a building bomber is landing, or what? With it’s bomb doors open and all that, of course…

It’s just not the same without that Beverley outside, either-though I suppose the ‘plastic’ fighters will be moved too, once the new building starts going up.

RE: Display boards

There should definitely be more information about the particular aircraft on display at Hendon, rather than just basic type info.

Also, the last time I went was with my wife, who’d never been before-the first thing she said about the boards was that they should have photos of the inside of the planes on, and I thought that was a brilliant idea-how about you guys?

Don’t get me wrong, I love the place, but for all their claims of making the place more up to date and ‘interactive’, it’s taking a hell of a long time for any real changes to present themselves! One sit-in Jet Provast, a walk-through Sunderland and a fair-ground style Tornado ‘simulator’ don’t ammount to a lot of ‘interactivity’ for a day out, do they? How about a hands on Spit control grip/panel, or even a sit-in fuselage section?

RE: Hendon chaos

When I went last year the place seemed fine but of course, Hendon is always changing and even more so now that the new building is due next year. I agree though that their info boards have always been rather lacking!