Restored WWII bomber crashes
Newsbot @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:44 am
Title: Restored WWII bomber crashes
Category: History
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2011-06-14 07:11:04
martin14 @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:44 am
too bad. 
PostFactum @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:58 am
Such is destiny)
SprCForr @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:25 am
martin14 martin14:
too bad.
Indeed. Glad the crew made it out OK.
Thanos @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:40 am
A sad loss to history of an item that can never be replaced. Given the rarity of almost all World War Two equipment, they should really consider permanently grounding almost all of them just to avoid the risk of losing any more.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:52 am
Oh shit..That's the B-17 I got my ride in
Taseko @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:00 am
Thanos Thanos:
A sad loss to history of an item that can never be replaced. Given the rarity of almost all World War Two equipment, they should really consider permanently grounding almost all of them just to avoid the risk of losing any more.
Thanos Thanos:
A sad loss to history of an item that can never be replaced. Given the rarity of almost all World War Two equipment, they should really consider permanently grounding almost all of them just to avoid the risk of losing any more.
I had two Mitchell Bombers (converted to water bombers) fly low over my head. The look and sound was so stupendous I damned near fell over. They are such beautiful aircraft.
I believe one of these, particular aircraft, was lost and the other may have been grounded in the intervening years.
On the one hand these machines should be preserved, but on the other, they are so beautiful flying, you want to see them up there forever.
And this was just two B25 Mitchels, I can't imagine what a B17, or a Lancaster would look and sound like that low.
DanSC @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:25 am
So glad everyone survived, but now there are only 13 flight-worthy B-17s left.
DrCaleb @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:35 am
Taseko Taseko:
I had two Mitchell Bombers (converted to water bombers) fly low over my head. The look and sound was so stupendous I damned near fell over. They are such beautiful aircraft.
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And this was just two B25 Mitchels, I can't imagine what a B17, or a Lancaster would look and sound like that low.
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And this was just two B25 Mitchels, I can't imagine what a B17, or a Lancaster would look and sound like that low.
Fricken amazing. Lancasters just have a roar that is unlike anything else.
Regina @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:30 pm
I've been on the ground when a Lanc has made a low pass a few times. Once at Farnbourgh, once in Hamilton and the last time was right over my house...which I think I have a picture or two of in my CKA photo album. It's like thunder and dark sky passing by. 
.......and as the Doc said.......Fricken amazing!!
Taseko @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:32 pm
Unfortunately I can only claim to have heard Lancasters on video. But I've climbed inside the one in Nanton Alberta and walked around the one in Calgary.
I wonder how many have seen the movie the "Dam Busters" filmed in 1955.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCRIsjJFRNo
xerxes @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:19 pm
Regina Regina:
I've been on the ground when a Lanc has made a low pass a few times. Once at Farnbourgh, once in Hamilton and the last time was right over my house...which I think I have a picture or two of in my CKA photo album. It's like thunder and dark sky passing by.
.......and as the Doc said.......Fricken amazing!!
.......and as the Doc said.......Fricken amazing!!
It truly is. Last year at the Abbotsford Airshow there was a Lancaster. It was beautiful sight to see and a symphonic joy to hear.
ShepherdsDog @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:33 pm
A friend who lives on Huntingdon Rd doesn't think it's such a great thing to hear, when he's working the graveyard shift.
PostFactum @ Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:28 pm
I don't understand why it had to fly. Restore it and put in the museum, if you want to fly make the same new one and fly till your breakfast won't cover 3 hectare.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:24 am
PostFactum PostFactum:
I don't understand why it had to fly. Restore it and put in the museum, if you want to fly make the same new one and fly till your breakfast won't cover 3 hectare.
Part of it is the mystique of flying [in] an aircraft that actually took part in The War as opposed to a replica. I paid darn good money just for the privilege of going for a ride in that particular aircraft.
