North Norfolk Railway 1940's weekend

andersley · Last edited by andersley on Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:41 am; edited 1 time in total

Video shot on saturday 20th september, includes a fly-past by a wartime bomber aircraft. Anyone know what it is?

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dogboxdriver · Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject:

As far as I know there are only two active WWII bombers in the UK - the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Lancaster and a B-17, Sally B, which flies out of Duxford.

My guess is that you'd have seen the Lancaster, but there's no information on the NNR site to confirm. The Sally B site doesn't mention a planned flying day on 2nd September, so that seems to rule the B-17 out.

[Later: in fact, if I'd bothered reading the News section of the Sally B site, I'd have seen that's she's grounded until at least next year. So it definitely wasn't the B-17 you saw, and therefore I guess it must have been the Lancaster!

dogboxdriver · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:52 am Post subject:

OK, now I'm well confused.

I've looked at the Battle of Britain Memeorial Flight site and their Lancaster was out of action for an engine for a couple of weeks from the end of August.

So I wonder what aircraft it was Question

d6841 · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:18 am Post subject:

Looked like the Lancaster to me. dunno

Certainly not a B19 (totally different tailplane).
Also Lancaster flew on the 29 August at the Bournmouth air Festival.

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d6841 · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:42 am Post subject:

Certainly confusing. There is a lancaster in canada still flying but I would doubt they would bring it over here. Do you have some higher res photos by any chance Alan.

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d6841 · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:49 am Post subject:

I know what's confusing. The gala was on the 20th sept not the second and the Lancaster flew several flypasts that day. Sausagecake

so it is the Lancaster.

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dogboxdriver · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:21 am Post subject:

d6841 wrote:

I know what's confusing. The gala was on the 20th sept not the second and the Lancaster flew several flypasts that day. Sausagecake

so it is the Lancaster.

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dogboxdriver · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:23 am Post subject:

d6841 wrote:

Also Lancaster flew on the 29 August at the Bournmouth air Festival.

Yep. It was out from the 31st Aug to the 9th Sept (I think - I can't be bothered to look it up on the website up again!) Cool

d6841 · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:16 am Post subject:

dogboxdriver wrote:

By the way, you've certainly got an interesting "grade" to repalce your Advanced Passenger Train (or whatever you were before) Exclamation

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andersley · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:45 am Post subject:

Sorry about the date confusion - I missed a '0' off. Amended now. Would have been the Lanc. then. Difficult to see any markings but just a silhouette against the sky. It appeared so suddenly, just as the WD was arriving, then turned round and did another pass (but did not drop any bombs!)

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andersley · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:51 am Post subject:

Here is a cropped image.

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Douglas Black · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

andersley wrote:

Here is a cropped image.

Cool!

Intermodalman · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject:

Lovely.

d6841 · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject:

And definitely the Lanc thumbs up!

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andersley · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

I should know it, it lives only ten miles from me. Rolling Eyes

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