Thunderbird Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 The BBMF Lanc just flew directly over my house at low level. Very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoggy Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 We had it fly over a few months ago. What a sight it was......Had one single spitfire with it as well. Makes you proud to be British. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppythedog Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 (edited) My lovely Mrs has bought me a taxi ride (sadly only on the ground) in a Lanc for my birthday, I went inside the BBMF Lanc about 40 yrs ago when I was 10 and thought it was very small inside then so it'll be interesting to see what it's like for a fat 50 yr old. Edited August 31, 2012 by poppythedog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted August 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 That will be a great experience though. Since we've lived here we've had three red arrows fly pasts over the house, two spitfires and now the lancaster. Quite nice living here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onefulham Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Where are you ? Sounds great to watch these iconic planes fly over. We live under a forces helicopter path , I love it when the Chinooks fly over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 My lovely Mrs has bought me a taxi ride (sadly only on the ground) in a Lanc for my birthday, I went inside the BBMF Lanc about 40 yrs ago when I was 10 and thought it was very small inside then so it'll be interesting to see what it's like for a fat 50 yr old. In Just Jane? at east kirby? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lxtav Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Had them fly down the Firth of Forth past my parents house a few years ago when they were dong a flypast at a local event and I have just read they are doing the same again this year. It was a Lancaster, Spitfire and a Hurricane that time and was the best sound ever. As we are under the flightpath for Edinburgh Airport we used to get Concorde flying over now and then. What a noise that made but it was a great sight and one that I will sadly miss. Just sorry my plane daft 4 year old won't see it fly over although he has seen and been on it in the museum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshie Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Saw a Lancaster fly past at a show last year. Makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 fond childhood memories lived at doncaster as a boy summers were spent watching BBMF training for finningley air show ,lanc ,spits hurricane ,red arrows superb watching em as the merlin engines roared overhead ,35 years ago glad there still flying and making people happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Where I used to live the Lanc was a weekly visitor at chimney pot level most weekends . It used to come over our house so low you would duck, beautiful, stunning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted September 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Where are you ? Sounds great to watch these iconic planes fly over. We live under a forces helicopter path , I love it when the Chinooks fly over We get the odd Chinook, the whump-whump is very distinctive isn't it? It's a little town called Wotton-Under-Edge in Glos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickS Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 We have Chinooks over all the time out of RAF Odiham. They loaned one to the CCF at my son's school speech day for them to mount an "attack" and deliver a new flag to mark the centenary of the school. Presumably the RAF supplied the pilot! The RAF also offer visits to local Scout groups etc. which the kids love. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kes Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 I've seen the flight - Lanc, spit and hurri fly over here once, enroute another airshow maybe. So evocative of those wartime summers - made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up too ! Always reminds me of the numbers who died - when i see them - truly a memorial flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deny essex Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) Had a B17 fly low and slow over a park beside my house some years ago when my son was small, he circled to let the kids see (and this big kid) he was very low as he banked and a guy waved from an open side door. Umm sons 40 must have been around 30 years ago!. Love all those WW2 aircraft and sounds they make. Now I feel old :( Edited September 1, 2012 by deny essex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onefulham Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) I know it is not the same, but this year we went to Florida and visited the Kennedy Space center, they have a great display there of a Saturn Rocket but before you enter that part of the building they have the launch control center, all the actual stations lit up, they do a countdown with all the actual voices and lights going, as the countdown nears the end you feel the rumble of the rockets starting and the power of it is just brilliant, made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and made me emotional and I am not usually like that, the Kennedy Space Center is a brilliant place to visit, finally talked my wife to go this year as she always said it sounded boring ??!! She LOVED it. I do not know why my post was underlined ? Edited September 1, 2012 by onefulham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickS Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 If in Florida, any airplane nut should visit Kermit Weeks's Fantasy of Flight at Polk City. The man himself is often there and demonstrating aircraft in his collection. At Kissimmee Municipal Airport you can take a ride in a T6 Texan (known here as the Harvard) or with big $$$ fly in a 2 seat P51 Mustang. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted September 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 How much $$$ are we talking for the Mustang? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickS Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 I recall about $3200 per hour block time (brakes off to brakes on). The T6 was about $600. Stallion 51 offer the Mustang flights and ongoing training. There are a couple of places that offer T6 - Stallion 51 and Warbird Adventures, both at KIS. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baikal boy Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 we had the vulcan fly over us in staffordshire it was amazing i think prince charles was at the arberetom at alrewas in rural lichfield but not sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet1747 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 We get the Vulcan flying over in Doncaster ,it was round today awesome sound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
storme37 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 i saw the lanc and a couple of spitfires land at manston a few years back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppythedog Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 In Just Jane? at east kirby? Yes that's the one, there are only 3 Lancs left in the World that are capable of moving, the BBMF, one in Canada and this one which cannot fly sadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saab6110 Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 I live not far away from where the Lancaster is based and we get all the old planes flying over most weeks. The roar of the engines as the fly over is amazing a lot better than all the modern planes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tad-blody Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 My lovely Mrs has bought me a taxi ride (sadly only on the ground) in a Lanc for my birthday, I went inside the BBMF Lanc about 40 yrs ago when I was 10 and thought it was very small inside then so it'll be interesting to see what it's like for a fat 50 yr old. Where is this place and any idea of cost? I might have just found the old man's birthday present ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppythedog Posted September 6, 2012 Report Share Posted September 6, 2012 Here you go http://www.lincsaviation.co.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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