Return Of The Vulcan

[Canada Phil]

Always remember driving south on the A1 at Catterick about 20 years ago and I was stopped, along with all the traffic in both directions for about 10 mins without explanation from the police. Suddenly I heard, before I saw, a Vulcan coming in to land at just about car roof level over the motorway.
It was explained on the local evening news that the runway was a bit on the short side for the Vulcan and it needed to get its wheels down as soon as possible after the motorway!
Awesome

Any Lancaster enthusiasts out there?

Steve

Hi Steve,
             When you come over in August we can go and see the only Lancaster still flying in Canada.  24 - 26 August is ALMS at Mosport. You know you want to!
Phil

[Catchpole]

XH558 of course !

I have or at least had a small piece of I think XM607. I think that is the aircraft that was sat on the fire dump at RAF Macrahanish (Can't spell that RAF base). We had a cadet camp there and during an exercise, I went over to her and sat in the cockpit. The part I had was a twisted piece of metal where a shell had gone through her wing in the Falklands.

607 is alive and well and can still be seen at RAF Waddington, as most will know, she was Black Buck 1 and features in the book 607 all about the RAF's involvement in the campaign to retake the Falkland's

[nickliv]

In a professional capacity, I've given an ATC service to the lanc a couple of times so far, when it's been going over to the dutch liberation celebrations. (At least I think that's where it was off to, certainly it was going into De Kooy for food)

I am pleased to say I did all I could to make sure that the old bus had a safe passage over the north sea.

Hope I get to do the same for the Vulcan in years to come.

[stuey]

Any local or inside knowledge would be welcome, I would give up a days holiday from work to go down to Bruntingthorpe to watch her fly again for the first time. Afterall i did go to her 30th birthday party at Woodford several years ago

Chris if I get any advance notice I will let you know

[Chris24]

Just looked it up in my book and its XL427 that was on the fire dump at RAF Machrihanish when i was there as an air cadet.

[Gordonwr]

Any local or inside knowledge would be welcome, I would give up a days holiday from work to go down to Bruntingthorpe to watch her fly again for the first time. Afterall i did go to her 30th birthday party at Woodford several years ago

Chris if I get any advance notice I will let you know

A nod here would also be appreciated !!

[Catchpole]

In a professional capacity, I've given an ATC service to the lanc a couple of times so far, when it's been going over to the dutch liberation celebrations. (At least I think that's where it was off to, certainly it was going into De Kooy for food)

I am pleased to say I did all I could to make sure that the old bus had a safe passage over the north sea.

Hope I get to do the same for the Vulcan in years to come.

Nick, you'll find that it is to commemorate Operation Manner, combined food drop by the RAF and USAAF during the closing stages of the war.  A truce was enforced to allow the allies to drop food to the starving Dutch people.

Bit like the annual Arnhem commemoration for the airborne guys.  If you haven't been, try and do so.

[John Boy]

Always remember driving south on the A1 at Catterick about 20 years ago and I was stopped, along with all the traffic in both directions for about 10 mins without explanation from the police. Suddenly I heard, before I saw, a Vulcan coming in to land at just about car roof level over the motorway.
It was explained on the local evening news that the runway was a bit on the short side for the Vulcan and it needed to get its wheels down as soon as possible after the motorway!
Awesome

Any Lancaster enthusiasts out there?

Steve

Hi Steve,
             When you come over in August we can go and see the only Lancaster still flying in Canada.  24 - 26 August is ALMS at Mosport. You know you want to!
Phil

Phil

I assume you're talking about this bad boy.  Was over there last September.  My wife has relatives in Milton so a visit to the museum at Hamilton was a must.  During the week after the photo was taken we got to watch it fly at about bedroom level (well it looked like that anyway) from our hotel in downtown Toronto.

Johne

[garyfrogeye]

I was at Sywell Aerodrome last night to see the "Music in Flight" concert, which is Aerobatic teams doing their thing in time with Classical music.
Pretty impressive although the weather (and the low cloud base) restricted a lot of it.
There was also supposed to be a flypast by the Battle of Britain Squadron but they had to turn back due to adverse weather conditions. There was also supposed to be a flypast by a Swordfish or two which didn't happen. We did however have the delight of a Sea Fury buzzing us at low level for about ten minutes and this morning as we were leaving our B&B in Northamptonshire, the Lancaster flew directly over us at about 1000 feet closely followed by the Spitfire and the Hurricane, so we had our own personal flypast.
I'm happy

[Canada Phil]

Hi John Boy,
                Yes it lives at the Warplane Heritage museum.
I have seen the Lancaster out twice already this summer. Were you in town for the September 1st long week end? That is when the CNE air show is held and it is usually at that.
 Milton is only 1 1/2 hours  from Mosport well maybe 2 if you stick to the speed limit
Phil

[John Boy]

Phil,

We were in in Toronto at the end of September for a wedding, followed by Montreal, Ottowa, Algonquin and Niagra, all in two weeks.  Your country's huge   Not sure why the Lancaster was flying, but it was on a Saturday.  If you haven't already, follow the thumbnail for plenty more pictures from the museum.

Johne

[nickliv]

In a professional capacity, I've given an ATC service to the lanc a couple of times so far, when it's been going over to the dutch liberation celebrations. (At least I think that's where it was off to, certainly it was going into De Kooy for food)

I am pleased to say I did all I could to make sure that the old bus had a safe passage over the north sea.

Hope I get to do the same for the Vulcan in years to come.

Nick, you'll find that it is to commemorate Operation Manner, combined food drop by the RAF and USAAF during the closing stages of the war.  A truce was enforced to allow the allies to drop food to the starving Dutch people.

Cheers Pete. I'll admit I was guessing at the reason the lanc went over to the continent. It'll be good to know exactly why the old girl is off there when I speak to her (crew, obviously) next.

Bit like the annual Arnhem commemoration for the airborne guys.  If you haven't been, try and do so.

[Andy Zarse]

I am led to believe that this morning XH558 will fly again for the first time in fifteen years.

[fagey]

its on the runway at the moment

[mgmark]

Indeed - Sky News and BBC are there amongst others, so hopefully we should see some clips on ther internet news sites and on the tellly news.  Fingers crossed for a successful air test.

MG Mark