And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, May 26, 2025
There are only two airworthy Lancasters left in the world - 7,377 were built
I'd guesstimate that it's just done a run over Ladybower reservoir and dam a few miles west of Sheffield as they did in training in the run up to Operation Chastise.
That's the RAF BBMF (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) Lanc. The Canadian Warplane Heritage flies VRA. The RAF and RCAF flew Lancs into the '60s as sub-hunters and SAR planes. Al_in_Ottawa
It's close to miraculous there are any. The war ended eighty years ago. My dad's unit blew up their P-47s on the airfield in Germany when they rotated back to the US. The P-47 D model, all the P-47s really, were already obsolete.
My father was an USAAF airplane mechanic in the Pacific when the Japanese surrendered. He said they immediately stopped working on broken aircraft and anything that couldn’t fly itself out was scrapped. Incoming ships dropped their war material cargo, including brand new airplanes in crates, over the side directly into the ocean to make room for transporting troops home. The entire focus shifted to going home.
And on our side of the pond, how many B-17 and B-24 bombers?
ReplyDeleteI'd guesstimate that it's just done a run over Ladybower reservoir and dam a few miles west of Sheffield as they did in training in the run up to Operation Chastise.
ReplyDeleteThat's the RAF BBMF (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) Lanc. The Canadian Warplane Heritage flies VRA. The RAF and RCAF flew Lancs into the '60s as sub-hunters and SAR planes.
ReplyDeleteAl_in_Ottawa
It's close to miraculous there are any. The war ended eighty years ago. My dad's unit blew up their P-47s on the airfield in Germany when they rotated back to the US. The P-47 D model, all the P-47s really, were already obsolete.
ReplyDeleteEveryone was sick of war and anything associated with it. Probably glad to blow em up 😒
DeleteMy father was an USAAF airplane mechanic in the Pacific when the Japanese surrendered. He said they immediately stopped working on broken aircraft and anything that couldn’t fly itself out was scrapped. Incoming ships dropped their war material cargo, including brand new airplanes in crates, over the side directly into the ocean to make room for transporting troops home. The entire focus shifted to going home.
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