Just Jane. A great project.

[steveindenmark]

Restoring a Lancaster Bomber
.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Lancaster-bomber-like-giant-AIRFIX-model.html

 

[sheddy]

Great.
But is there a non Daily Vile link ?

 

[sheddy]

Got it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-56130157

 

[sheddy]

BTW, how's your recovery going ?

 

[steveindenmark]

Thanks for asking. I will post an update in the Cafe. 👍

 

[Blue Hills]

Amazing things.
Have been up close to the one in the RAF Museum, Hendon.
Massive but if you know anything about the history looking at one you don't feel powerful at all but very prone. A big target.
Respect to anyone who flew in one, now mostly gone.

 

[winjim]

That's pretty impressive if they can get it going again. There's a chunk of my Grandfather's Lanc in Newark air museum. It flew over a hundred missions, latterly seeing service as a garden shed before being rescued and put on display in the 1970s.

http://www.newarkairmuseum.org/Lancaster-Corner

 

[Cycleops]

Amazing story and an amazing aeroplane. If we hadn’t of had it the war would have gone on for many more years. Full respect to the lads that flew them knowing their chances of survival were slim.

 

[Blue Hills]

Amazing story and an amazing aeroplane. If we hadn’t of had it the war would have gone on for many more years. Full respect to the lads that flew them knowing their chances of survival were slim.

yes - I have seen some statements from some folks (born postwar) from some folks born in countries that would have been under these things that say the crews were cowards, as if you just flew off and dropped stuff with impunity. In truth of course 50 per cent didn't make it to the war's end. I find it incredible that folk volunteered for this.
Another memory from the RAF museum though this involved american crews.
There's a letter or something from a US airman telling folks that their tour of duty (number of flights before being relieved) had gone up. It went up to a figure beyond the number of missions you were likely to on AVERAGE survive. If you were lucky, Which meant that from now on crews felt like they were on death's row. No coming back to this world.

 

[Illaveago]

I was at Hullavington back in the 70's . There was an Aeromodeller Nationals going on at the time and a friend and I had gone over to watch them . Just Jane was in camouflage at the time with a different registration and minus the dorsal turret .
We were amazed to see it taxi out of the hanger on the second day, a large crowd gathered around it before it ran down a runway and took off .
I have some pictures of it somewhere. I will post them soon .

 

[winjim]

For anyone wondering, a Lancaster tour was thirty ops. My grandfather flew twenty eight, mostly in J for Johnnie Walker, before the war ended.

 

[Mark Grant]

I recently got a (considerably smaller) Lancaster project. An unfinished 44" span electric free flight model.
Maybe I'll finish it as Just Jane.

 

[Illaveago]

Here are a couple of pictures .
Sorry about the quality .

I think the registration was GLC.

 

[Dirk]

For anyone wondering, a Lancaster tour was thirty ops. My grandfather flew twenty eight, mostly in J for Johnnie Walker, before the war ended.

My childhood best mate's Dad was a rear gunner on Lancs. He did 3 tours.
Looking back on it, it explains a lot of things about his demeanour.

 

[Poacher]

Another memory from the RAF museum though this involved american crews.
There's a letter or something from a US airman telling folks that their tour of duty (number of flights before being relieved) had gone up. It went up to a figure beyond the number of missions you were likely to on AVERAGE survive. If you were lucky, Which meant that from now on crews felt like they were on death's row. No coming back to this world.

This was also the central theme in Catch 22.