Showing posts with label Lancaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lancaster. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 August 2014

2 Lancaster Bombers Fly Together for First Time in 50 Years

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At RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire two Lancaster Bombers took to the skies yesterday for the first formation flight of this aircraft type ...
Monday, 11 August 2014

Meeting of the last two airworthy Lancasters- ‘Thumper’ meets ‘Vera’

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Although 7,377 Lancaster aircraft were produced between 1941 and 1946, only two remain airworthy. One (a Mk 1 nicknamed ‘Thumper’) is mai...
Monday, 3 March 2014

Halton trainees provide a proper send off for RAF rear gunner hero Walter

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A Second World War rear gunner, whose funeral was set to be a quiet affair with only a few mourners, has now had a send off more fitting o...
Tuesday, 25 February 2014

RAF to host as last two flying Lancasters fly together this summer

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The last two Lancaster bombers still flying in the world will come together in a series of events this summer, in a meeting unlikely to ...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Young players perform a moving tribute at RAF Scampton

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Young actors from the University of Lincoln School of Performing Arts have staged a moving tribute to the original Dambusters at RAF Sca...
Monday, 17 June 2013

RAF to kick-off the Armed Force Day celebrations

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The Red Arrows will lead the display of military aircraft past and present in the skies over Nottingham on 29 Jun 13 for Armed Forces Da...
Monday, 20 May 2013

617 Sqn Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving

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A Service of Commemoration and Thanksgiving took place at Lincoln Cathedral Friday, 17th May to remember and honour the lives of those w...
Friday, 17 May 2013

A fitting tribute - The Sunset Ceremony at RAF Scampton

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The Royal Air Force's Memorial Flight Lancaster Bomber and 2 Spitfires, as well as 2 Tornado GR4's from the current 617 Sqn flew...

Dan Snow flies with RAF Memorial Flight over Derwent Reservoir

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Historian and television presenter Dan Snow was given the rare privilege of flying in the RAF’s Memorial Flight Lancaster bomber over th...
Thursday, 16 May 2013

Dambusters Salute - Footage of the flypast over Derwent Water

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To see the BBC coverage of the flypast and to see the footage - Click here . If you are using a MOBILE DEVICE please use this link

Dambusters Salute

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Dambusters Salute. In the Air. BY KIND PERSMISSION OF SEVERN TRENT WATER the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and 617 Sqn are plann...
Wednesday, 15 May 2013

RAF Interview with OC 617 Dambuster Sqn

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The RAF PR team interview OC 617 Sqn on the eve of the Dambusters commemoration. Wg Cdr David Arthurton, 40, originally from Harrogate, ...
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

24 Hour BBC Coverage - Dambusters

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For a 24 hr period - Thursday 16th and Friday 17th May the BBC will broadcast a number of programmes across radio and television commem...

RAF interview with the daughter of Barnes Wallis

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The RAF PR Team shared a cup of tea with Mary Stopes-Roe, born Mary Wallis, the daughter of Barnes Wallis and were invited to explore he...
Monday, 13 May 2013

Follow the Dambusters Raid minute by minute on Twitter

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The RAF will for the first time transmit on Twitter the original wireless telegraphy signals of the famous Second World War "Dambus...
Thursday, 25 April 2013

Flt Lt Loz Rushmere talks to Chris Evans re his planned flight in the Lancaster.

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Flt Lt Loz Rushmere of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight spoke to Chris Evans on his Radio 2 breakfast show (25 Apr 13) about the ...
Monday, 10 September 2012

BBMF Lancaster recast as Thumper MkIII

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The RAF BBMF Lancaster, PA474, has taken on a new identity as 617 Sqn Lancaster B1, DV385, 'Thumper Mk III'. The nose art features ...