DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Sounds well worth a visit.
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Bristolian
Über Member
- Location
- Bristol, UK
Cheers for this information. I have sent the links to a mate of mine whose dad was a member of 617 Sqn (but not on the dambusters raid) and who is currently building a model of a Lancaster with the bouncing bomb. His dad flew on several raids with the Tallboy bomb, including against the Turpitz pocket battleship.
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
@Bristolian
As the BBC article states, the museum is sadly closed, but the dam can be walked around (well...... on 3 sides anyway!)
There's a good museum in Lincolnshire, that has a Lancaster, which you can pay & have a taxi-ride in!!!
I've been, but not in it!, & it's surprising how close you can get as they start it up!!
It's not just a case of hearing the Merlins, but feeling them, as they vibrate on your rib-cage!
https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/
As the BBC article states, the museum is sadly closed, but the dam can be walked around (well...... on 3 sides anyway!)
There's a good museum in Lincolnshire, that has a Lancaster, which you can pay & have a taxi-ride in!!!
I've been, but not in it!, & it's surprising how close you can get as they start it up!!
It's not just a case of hearing the Merlins, but feeling them, as they vibrate on your rib-cage!
https://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
There is also a Halifax in a Museum near York
I went to see it some years ago as my Dad worked on them in WW2
I wish there was a Stirling as he worked on them more
but I think they were all scrapped after WW2 as they were not looked on well
in spite of being able to out turn a Spitfire - apparently!
I went to see it some years ago as my Dad worked on them in WW2
I wish there was a Stirling as he worked on them more
but I think they were all scrapped after WW2 as they were not looked on well
in spite of being able to out turn a Spitfire - apparently!
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Not unless the laws of aerodynamics have changed since I was a student.
dicko
Legendary Member
- Location
- Derbyshire
The Boeing Dreamliner 787/10 is it any good? Going to Toronto on one and returning via Montreal to Heathrow.
figbat
Former slippery scientist
- Location
- South Oxfordshire, UK
I was walking the dog yesterday and as I live under the westward flight corridor out of Heathrow seeing planes climbing overhead is not unusual. However one went over that made a distinctive and rather loud noise. I could see it was an airliner type but not any details. I quickly looked it up on ADS-B Exchange and found it was a Boeing 727.
Intrigued, I looked up its registration (G-OSRB) and found it is one of two oil spill response planes, used for spraying dispersants onto oil spills.
Intrigued, I looked up its registration (G-OSRB) and found it is one of two oil spill response planes, used for spraying dispersants onto oil spills.
midlife
Legendary Member
I think that’s Elvington. Was there in the summer, lots of static planes to see, but busy. they ran up the engines of their Nimrod. Took me back to my airshow days as a kid.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Thats a great place to spend a few hours, even when the Lancaster is in the hangar. It's the closest I ever got to one, they really were a big aircraft, bigger when youre stood in front of it.
Mosquito and B25 too, plus various exhibits..and of course, you can sometimes see staff actually working on sections of the aircraft.
Id highly recommend a visit, lovely relaxed place.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
Just above Leeds/Bradford Airport is the Leeds & Bradford Airport Industrial Estate, which is where Lancaster Bombers were built, the hanger doors are still present, just with the opening blocked a bit by the haulage company that are in that end of the building, that doorway is huge, the finished aircraft would be brought out & taken to what is Leeds/Bradford Airport for delivery to which ever R.A.F Station it was built for
Richard A Thackeray
Legendary Member
Yes, & a couple of 'Art-Deco'/'British Moderne' buildings still exist there
https://www.instantstreetview.com/@53.866412,-1.669702,92.51h,4.28p,1z,AC-FEBPpdd0etXSTMxeMZA
As An Aside; have you noticed the WW1 hanger, used as a barn adjacent to 'Bramham CrossRoads'? (where A1 & A64 intersect)
It's to the north of the A64, between 'B CR' & the road (old A64) into Tadcaster
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1789131
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.u...t-of-headley-hall-farm-bramham-cum-oglethorpe
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DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
- Location
- Reading, obvs
Yes, it would have been en route back home to Southend after a trip to Cardiff.
It would only have been at about 11,000 feet so it's not surprising it was loud. The 727 was never a quiet aircraft, and even though the few still flying have been re-engined, that didn't make a great difference to the noise.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
ATEC is one of the sites I visit, about 3x a year, if you're in the car park round the back, you can hear jet engines being run up as it backs onto an aircraft repair & maintenance building.
I'll keep an eye out for the hanger, next time I'm on the A64
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