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Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:44 pm
by Chuck
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... tored.html
Historic Lancaster bomber will be taken apart piece by piece and painstakingly restored in a £3.5million project to get it flying again by 2020
Lancaster Avro NX611 'Just Jane' is undergoing a mammoth restoration in East Kirkby, Lincolnshire
Workers are taking aircraft to pieces, checking every component and putting it back together again
Project costing around £3.5million aims to have the historic aircraft taking to the skies again by 2020
Plane was built by Austin Motors in Longbridge near Birmingham in April 1945 but did not see service
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 8:03 pm
by 1066
Great news Chuck - I've seen this Lanc, it's on a chicken farm in "Ovenpaa" country. When I was chatting to one of the old boys who own it, maybe 7-8 years ago, he told me then that they hoped to get it back in the air, he told me they have some new crated engines for it. It regularly does taxi runs down the runway.
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:15 pm
by ArcofZen
Excellent stuff, not many of these left now is there? The great news is that they intend flying it, not just putting it in a museum. I saw the Vulcan many times but was still guttted when it was grounded.
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:40 pm
by Ovenpaa
I kno of it however we have not been down to see it yet. I did manage to stand on the wing of an English Electric Lightening though :)
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 9:45 pm
by HALODIN
Excellent news.
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:18 pm
by 1066
Ovenpaa wrote:I kno of it however we have not been down to see it yet. I did manage to stand on the wing of an English Electric Lightening though :)
Well worth a zip down the A16 on a sunny Saturday afternoon. They used to have a few planes at Hemswell but they all seemed to disappear a couple of years ago.
There's also a "Tall Boy" bomb standing in a garden in Halton-le-clay.
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 11:43 pm
by GeeRam
The Canadian Warplane Heritage that fly the 'other' airworthy Lanc, which they flew over do a UK tour back in 2014, have hinted that if/when Just Jane flys again, they may well consider flying their Lanc back over again, as the chance to get all 3 flying together would be just too much to resist.......and the last time that 3 flew together in the UK was when they filmed The Dambusters in 1954/5.
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:30 am
by snayperskaya
On a similar note the Memphis Belle is being restored in the States.....
http://www.warbirdsnews.com/aviation-mu ... pdate.html
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:02 am
by Ovenpaa
1066 wrote:Well worth a zip down the A16 on a sunny Saturday afternoon. They used to have a few planes at Hemswell but they all seemed to disappear a couple of years ago.
There's also a "Tall Boy" bomb standing in a garden in Halton-le-clay.
We have a Lightening in a garden just up the road, apparently the chap who lives there also has a Lightening flight simulator however I have only ever driven past so cannot confirm this.
Is that Holton or Halton, if it is the former it is just to the North East of us and we venture that way quite often when heading to the club or the coast with the dogs.
Re: Lancaster rebuild
Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:17 am
by 20series
The movie Memphis Belle was filmed at RAF Binbrooke near where Ovenpaa and Christel now live
Alan