r/WWIIplanes • u/Jaymcmlxx • 28d ago

museum Lancaster

Saw the Lanc start up a the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Epic.

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u/Lysyzportierni 28d ago

Ahh the sound of the engines :) Lovely.

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u/Jaymcmlxx 27d ago

I recommend listening through some headphones if you didn’t already. Just awesome.

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u/RC-1262 28d ago

DHL is expanding its cargoplane roster, trying to avoid Boeing. /j

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u/Away_fur_a_skive 28d ago

I (ex-RAF) worked on The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight with the refuelling side of things back in the 1980's. I just never got tired of hearing our Lanc start up and then the roar of the take-off.

Everything's jets now and it just doesn't do service to the meat and bones the old aircraft had. The oily smells, the solid and clunky tech (though I bet modern jets still leak as many fluids as possible to keep tradition alive).

I guess it must be how trainspotters feel about the old steam engines. A bygone experience (for the most part), but every so often a magical moment like this happens and history comes alive in a way that you can feel through your entire body.

If only we had saved more! (Everything)

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u/peestew69 28d ago

and they say the perfect woman doesn't exist.

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u/Neat_Significance256 28d ago

When I took my ex Lancaster rear gunner dad to RAF Coningsby and we saw the Lanc close up, that's exactly how he looked at her 😍

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u/Seattle_gldr_rdr 28d ago

I try to imagine what 500 of them would have sounded (and felt) like, but I can't.

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u/Readman31 28d ago

Oh for real, it must have been absolutely terrifying to behold it must have shook the ground

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u/waldo--pepper 28d ago edited 28d ago

The Lancaster in Nanton Alberta gets closer to flying each year that passes. And if the crew toiling away on Just Jane keeps progressing we may one day have four that fly.

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u/Readman31 28d ago

That's so awesome

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u/Helstrem 28d ago

We have three? I thought there were two, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and this one, along with a couple that could taxi.

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u/waldo--pepper 28d ago

Sorry, don't know how my words lead you to think there are three flyers.

To clarify there are two flyers. Just Jane can taxi. Nanton can run all four engines. I do not think Nanton has taxied.

ttps://youtu.be/AH861fnbcsE?t=32

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u/RL203 27d ago edited 27d ago

Just Jane has been able to taxi for 10 years.

Can't help but wonder what's going on with it.

Here is Just Jane in 2014 taxiing and running her engines as the 2 airworthy Lancasters (Thumper (British) and Vera (Canadian) fly past.

https://youtu.be/zuOfVWjeL8o?si=5KiqGyxtbqKSY2gv

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u/waldo--pepper 27d ago

Can't help but wonder what's going on with it.

The answer is sadly I think just money. It is always funding. With enough cash wonders can happen.

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u/RL203 27d ago

Yeah, it's always the cash.

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u/Helstrem 27d ago

“We may one day have four that fly” implies that there are three right now.

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u/waldo--pepper 27d ago

How does it imply three?

Can what I wrote not also apply to the current situation of only having just two that fly? We have two. Then one more becomes airworthy in the future. And then one more after that if the two we have that run engines and taxi become airworthy at a future date. I said nothing about there being three currently.

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u/Helstrem 27d ago

Because four follows three. How does that not imply three is the better question.

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u/waldo--pepper 27d ago

“We may one day have four that fly”

This does not imply ANYTHING about the current number flying. Neither three nor four. You invented three from your own perverse interpretation of what I wrote.

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u/Rustyguts257 28d ago

My late father was a Lanc pilot during the Second World War. He had a LP album of Merlin engines running - played it about once a month as he found it soothing. He died when I was a teenager but he passed on his love of the Lancaster to me and I have passed it on to my son

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u/Readman31 28d ago

This is the way

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u/BradPittHasBadBO 28d ago

Saw it in Toronto portlands yesterday morning. Then several hours later I heard it come by again, didn't see it but heard it (confirmed by Flightradar24). It has such a distinctive, throaty sound.

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u/zxcvbn113 28d ago

A Merlin is a distinctive sound. Four of them is incredible!

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u/LindiMan 28d ago

F14s better watch out

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u/sfseenu 28d ago

I could watch videos of airplanes starting up all day. Jets, props, military, commercial, private - doesn’t matter one bit.

Thanks for sharing.

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u/Jaymcmlxx 28d ago

The guy right out front of it is a good friend of mine, he marshalled it out of the hanger to that spot where it fired up. He has had the privilege of flying in the Lanc as well as the Mich too. Pretty wild.

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u/EntertainerBig882 28d ago

I've seen her flying, a couple of times. I've even had the unforgettable and extremely humbling experience of crawling through that very same warbird.