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Disco Matt:
IIRC the Dakota is the support plane for the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, whose Lancaster this is. They use it for transport and crew training as there aren't many multi-engined tailsitter aircraft around and letting new pilots take the Lanc up straight away wouldn't be a good idea!
mike142sl:
It was a great morning out. The Lancaster made three passes both down then up the valley, this was the second. The last time it was escorted by two tornados which made an almighty noise.
After the Lancaster, the Spitfire and Hurricane made a few passes, then the Dakota finished things off - made it look very slow compared to the others, and I thought the Lancaster was slow - amazing how they all didn't get shot out of the sky?. The Dakota is a recent addition to the memorial flight as I think it was pretty instrumental in most paracute drops plus the Berlin air lift.
littlepow:
Mohne dam after the raid, in May 43.
Bomber command used to fly during the day, but due to heavy losses to german fighters. They had to switch to night flying, in a hope to give the overloaded slow bombers a chance. It is a miracal that any actually made it back, never mind survived the war! With losses of over 60% (more than 55,000 lives and 10,724 planes lost) it was a heavy loss.
For every 100 crew members over 30 bombing missions (a single tour),
51 Killed on operations
9 Killed in crashes in England
3 Seriously injured
12 Prisoner of War
1 Evaded capture
24 Survived unharmed
Disco Matt:
I don't think anyone who has seen the BBMF Lancaster in action will forget it - I've seen it at RIAT two years running when it got twice the attention of the USAF B-52 that displayed shortly after!
Jake:
I love the Lancaster
Such a beautiful sight in the sky
Majestic
:D
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