Buyer’s question sent, politely pointing out that either they’ve been seriously mis-informed, or they’re trying it on, and that either way, they’re making a laughing stock of themselves.

Honestly!

Well, back in the day when I went to a lot of shows on a regular basis, I certainly got quite good at spotting who was flying her before the commentator would say! You could just tell the differences in style, even in a big old girl like the Lanc. Mike Chatterton was my favourite, he flew her very nicely indeed IMO.

Looking again at the video of it, it looks more like it just got away from the pilot (Colin Patterson I think?) to be honest; it looks like she was flared out a smidge soon on a hot day, subsequently bumped about between her three points a bit, and just got away from him.

There’s footage of a smiliar, later incident that happened as she was landing at home on the old Discovery Channel BBMF docu; Rick Groombridge was at the controls, and it was filmed this time from the mid-upper turret. Again, all seems normal until she just starts bumping about and then skids heavily.

Maybe Fluffy can elaborate on these incidents for us?

1992 – I’ve put this one in as it shows poor old PA474 having a bad moment at Mildenhall….

I’ve still got footage of this incident on an old FlyPast airshows video- if people think the stills are bad, you should see it in motion and hear the engines revving to correct her!

Again, thank you for some great images, and as people have been saying, I agree that PZ should always have been ‘The Last Of The Many’; poor choice to ditch that, I feel. This year would be a great excuse to paint it back on her, y’know. 😉

If someone could PLEASE just buy them some light bulbs and sort the food out… :rolleyes:

Gosh, that made for sad reading. Had no idea the BBMF helped out afterwards- good on them. 🙁

What with these and all the lovely Lanc overhaul stuff we’ve seen of late, it makes me feel quite privelleged! 🙂