Please Let it Happen!!

[Richard A Thackeray]

I've been there a couple of times, & they deserve to get it flying!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-20794398

It's a wonderful feeling (quite literally, as the airflow gets you) when they're running all 4 engines up barely 10 yards away
http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/

 

[smokeysmoo]

Fingers crossed from me.

I remember seeing a flypast over Bolton town hall many years ago. The Lancaster a Spitfire and a Hurricane.

Really stirs your soul to see these magnificent machines in the air.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Really stirs your soul to see these magnificent machines in the air.

You can get this close (& pay, if you wish, to have a taxi-ride!!)

 

[smokeysmoo]

You can get this close (& pay, if you wish, to have a taxi-ride!!)

It would be great to experience, but a 300 mile round trip means it's a tad unlikely

 

[Norm]

It would be great to experience, but a 300 mile round trip means it's a tad unlikely

It shouldn't be. I make the journey (about 320 round trip for me) twice a year to see and hear that thing as a memorial bike meet for a friend who died 5 years ago from cystic fibrosis.

 

[smokeysmoo]

It shouldn't be. I make the journey (about 320 round trip for me) twice a year to see and hear that thing as a memorial bike meet for a friend who died 5 years ago from cystic fibrosis.

That's a nice thing Norm

Sadly I'm struggling to keep enough fuel in my car to get to the end of the road at the moment

 

[Norm]

Remind me in July - I've a spare seat on the back of the motorbike.

 

[postman]

Wilson ,Wilson get the men together we are going on a sponsored cycle ride.We need to save a Bomber.

 

[hotmetal]

Was just going to say I've been there with Norm on the motorbikes. Just Jane is awesome. It would be incredible to see her airborne. The sound of those engines is very evocative, even though I am obviously too young to have heard one in the war. Must be all the old war films, but it made my hair stick up when they fired her up. Would like to go there again. Norm, give us a nudge when you go next summer.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Just Jane is awesome.
It would be incredible to see her airborne.

The sound of those engines is very evocative, even though I am obviously too young to have heard one in the war.

but it made my hair stick up when they fired her up

I can't do anything but agree with all of those sentiments, my hair seemed to stand up too, & stir memories of what I've seen (films/documnetaries) & read over the years

 

[skudupnorth]

Here she is in 1986 when on gate duty at RAF Scampton