I managed to get reasonable shots of the WWII Lancaster Bomber during the fly over in Leam. I quickly took a few shots from the garden, it went fast so I didn't get time to zoom in much.



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Nice, Margaret.

Nothing like the sound of those engines.

I worked on a successor of the Lancaster, the Shackleton. - 10,000 rivets flying in formation

Is the Shackleton still preserved ?


Today's modern planes have about 3 million parts to it.. all the more to go wrong.

WR963 was at Coventry airport until recently. There was a team intending to get it flying again. Unfortunately, developments at the airport meant that it had to be moved, so it was dismantled and taken by road to the Yorkshire Air Museum, where work is continuing.

I believe there is one at the Manchester Science Museum, as Avro, the manufacturer, was based in that area.

There was a MK3 (tricycle undercarriage) at Long Marston airfield IIRC, but it was in dreadful condition.

On a slightly different subject, I was in York earlier this year and had a chance to go to the excellent and free, railway museum. What made me smile was a steam loco called the 'Evening Star' that was there.
The funny thing about that is that when I was growing up in Longbridge, train spotting was a big thing with all of us. BL. had a separate spur or railway siding that came off the mainline to bring in coal and ferrous components. There was some really extraordinary trains that used to come along there.
The point about the Evening Star was that it was a highly prized - and yet elusive train - a huge thing, black and sleek and nobody had ever seen it. I can remember distinctly quite a large crowd gathering when it was said the train was going to be coming by. But it never appeared. So I never got to see it. So imagine the first think I see 50 plus years later in the York railway museum was the Evening Star. And boy is it a beauty.
Things come to those who.....

Keith..

I seem to remember BL/ARG/Rover, or whatever it was, dispatching cars via a rail link. I assume it was the same one?

Land Rover at Solihull had a plan to install a rail head, but it came to nothing. Although IIRC, they did buy up quite a lot of land to facilitate it.