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Here is a link to the short video that was shared on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nafmcanada/...9060965795560/
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At 9:00 am on Oct. 04 two tractor trailers arrived at the National Air Force Museum with Lancaster KB882. :thup2:
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Here is a short Canadian clip of Bristol radial engine Lancasters.
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http://www.warbirdsnews.com/aviation...fely-home.html
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Lancaster update
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...ject-1.4713834
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It would be nice to see a second one flying in Canada. At the very least, it splits the demands on the aircraft between two planes, so less wear and tear on either individually.
I think there is another in Nanton, Alberta being restored to full ground operation capability and last I heard they were planning restoration work on critical pints to be airworthy where possible...just in case. David |
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One story I can share: in the mid 1980's, when it was suffering from neglect, a local Air Cadet squadron was given permission to clean it up. On the appointed day the smartly turned out cadets scrambled up the ladders that had been brought and a city worker unlocked the padlock on the rear door. Peeking inside, the floor was covered with drug needles and used condoms. Seems somebody and their friends had found a way in and it had become their party place. The city worker replaced the padlock and the disappointed cadets went home. |
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Just read it’s a actually FM104, and it was in its pedestal from 1966 to 1999.
Interestingly, I read this news on an Australian site suggesting it could go to Australia? An Australian group had also shown interest in the Lancaster at the top of this thread. So watch you six, Canadians! ;-) Attachment 101195 Attachment 101196 |
I spoke to one of the gentlemen working on the restoration of Toronto Lancaster when it was on display at Downsview about a decade ago. They had a group out west with a parts fuselage that was sending them panels and spars that were deteriorated beyond repair. The hole where it was mounted on the plinth has just been flame cut out of the bottom and was rather a mess.
Of the engines he said a couple of them were animal hotels and rusted solid but one was like new inside and could have been made to run with little effort. During the whole conversation my wife was in plain view over his shoulder making it clear with sign language (finger drawn across throat) that I wasn't getting involved in restoring a Lancaster. |
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more on Lancaster FM104
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“Victoria group sets lofty goal: Making Lancaster bomber airworthy again”
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It is a loft goal. Let's hope they have success as so many of these major projects seem to wither on the vine in Canada. It seems the organization behind this rebuild has experience in this type of work, so that is a good start.
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Thanks for the update, Hanno. That is very good news!
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Comox - the land of hope
I could not help but remember the lofty dreams of rebuilding a Spitfire in Comox. The project fell on hard times (or hard realities) and passed to Michael Potter's Vintage Wings in Gatineau, Quebec.
The project became a corporation, with a business plan, management, budgets and paid specialists. The Spitfire flew in 2017 (?) and toured US via Oshkosh before visiting Comox. It was part of the promise. http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNe...itfire-IX.aspx |
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I have met and befriended one of the volunteers ( Grant H) in the museum in Victoria while i was working there last year . They are dedicated , educated and funded . They have a first class aviation museum there . The weather allows for some really neat outdoor exhibitions also including historical military vehicle meets and re-enactments. They are going to succeed i am sure. On a personal note , i have been inside the cockpit of the Edmunston plane when i was a child in the 60 ´s a few months after it arrived . It was a functional plane then . I decided to become a pilot on that day and did eventually . I am glad it is starting a new life in Trenton where the museum is really , really a first class military aviation shrine that i visited often when working in Trenton . Cheers , Bob
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Lancaster KB882 (formerly Edmundston) CBC news update Oct 14, 2019
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Vid of the initial "move" on Youtube. :blink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK48OhfxT7A regards Darrell |
Lancaster KB882 (formerly Edmundston) CBC News update Jan 2, 2021
Former Edmundston Lancaster bomber restoration on track for 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...mber-1.5838203 Brian |
Lancaster KB882 (formerly Edmundston, N.B.) - Sept. 6, 2022 update on driving.ca
Here is the link to an update on the restoration of Lancaster KB882 at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ontario
https://driving.ca/auto-news/local-c...r-force-museum Brian |
Well very good news about KB882, as in an earlier post, the now unreliable and 'awakened' CBC had falsely written that this was a Dambuster Lanc.
I would so love to see one of the few being restored in Canada actually make it beyond static display. The Halifax in Trenton (which I also wrote about long ago) can never fly again, because many parts were impossible to find and had to be fabricated to look right but were not airworthy suitable. One of my father's buddies was a Lanc pilot, but at the time, although I was somewhat aware of the significance, I never really asked about his experience (damn fool) and now he's gone of course. He did mention that after one sortie, he was either lost or short of fuel and had to land on handy strip. but the strip was too short for the plane to take off again, so it was dismantled for parts! (perhaps there was much more to this story but I never pushed him for details (damn fool) I always find it incredible that the CO of the Dambusters in charge of and responsible for all those men and planes and planning was a mere 25 yr old , also known as fearless. Don't know what you were like in your 20's but I would say personally I was as much 'rear orifice' as anything else. One thing that surprises me about the Lanc and others, is that it is such a big plane but the cockpit is really cramped and it seems not really bigger than the cockpit of a single engine plane like a cessna. One thing that concerns me however is the age of people interested and those restoring or preserving these artifacts. Not a lot of younger types from what I can see. There's a very small museum at Ste Anne de Bellevue just west of Montreal, and although a very good effort with some interesting stuff, it also is all volunteer and generally older guys. ((I'm surprised the following links still work, given that Radio-Canada/CBC with Liberal agreement, killed off the International Service-)) https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/04/30/...vivor-of-wwii/ https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/07/08/...s-war-veteran/ |
This Chinook Also Needs a Home
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Unfortunately a myopic view of history were SWW artifacts are more respected then current material means that the mistakes made with the Lancaster bombers are still being made today. Chinook 205 '2 for Hooking' was a combat aircraft that crashed on 16 May, 2011 while carrying Canadian soldiers and a journalist in a remote part of southern Afghanistan. Luckily no-one was killed but four were hurt, one seriously and everyone was evacuated to the base at Sperwan Ghar. The aircraft was recovered and flown back to Kandahar by the United States Marine Corps where the fuselage was then shipped back to CFB Petawawa, the nose-art was removed, and the fuselage now sits neglected in Borden. If this were a SWW aircraft it would long ago have been placed in storage for eventual restoration.
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A nice video on Youtube from Kevin Windsor from the National Air Force Museum of Canada from April 2023 regarding KB882 and the Museum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cizLAGF2WOA regards Darrell |
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