Anyone have any idea when this Mossie might fly again ?

Be nice to get it over to Duxford one day 🙂

More likely they had a complaint from some NIMBY type idiot.

To be honest you would have to be very thick to move to an airport or airbase and then complain of jet noise.

Reminds of fool who brought a house less than a mile away from Waddo early this year and was trying to get me to fill in petition to ban flights in and out of the base.

Peter I’m not sure if they dry turn the Vulcan’s engines but many years ago they were all in running condition and were stared up from time to time.

I have no idea if the Varsity can still be run but it would be nice if they did.

I remember being told about a black Lancaster on display in the naval dockyard at Murmansk in the early 1990’s so I guess anything is possible.

It might not be that far fetched to assume their were several black Lancaster doing the rounds in the years after ww2.

Lets face out of some 4000 that were built its not like people would miss a couple that were used for “black projets” or whatever.

There are also stories of a black Lancaster that used to fly out or the Murmansk area to test the UK defences but all of them have one flaw.

This black Lancaster was flying around in trhe 40 and 50s. However it was something to do with radar testing and ECM development.

A Shack could easily be mistaken for a Lancaster in the twilight, couldn’t it? Especially if it were modified a bit for this ‘new’ equipment

I had similar thoughts myself to be honest and it would be more useful to test systems in a Shack as a lot of the electrics and other gear would fit inside one a lot better than in a Lanc.