shane wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 6:34 pm
There are only two, and one lives in Canada, so yours will be the BBMF one which lives at RAF Coningsby.
Actually Shane, there are more than two.
Additional to those already mntioned, there is the Panton Brothers' Lanc at East Kirkby - this does taxi runs but does not fly (although it is capable of flight), there is another in Auckland which flew in there some years ago and, presumably, with a bit of TLC, it could fly out. I believe that there is another somewhere in Australia. There could be more.
As a sort-of-related aside, I watched the BBMF and the Canadian aircraft escorted by the BBMF Spitfire and Hurricane at Dawlish Warren when the Canadians so generously allowed their a/c to come here. A section of the large crowd was sitting on a railway embankment and watching the display taking place along the shoreline. Sitting next to me was a bloke of around 35 and with a couple of his sons who were about 10/12. As the two bombers flew past together, most of the people stood up, perhaps to get a better view? I also stood and said to the lads "Stand up, boys". The father got very shirty and asked who the hell was I to tell his kids what to do? I felt it a sign of the age that it was necessary to explain to this ignorant lout that 55,000 volunteers of Bomber Command gave their lives so that he could enjoy a day in the sun as a free man with his kids and that these aircraft represented those who had made this sacrifice. Surely, such a small mark of respect might be in order?
The bastard just sat there, making me wish I was 50 years younger.
Last of the late brakers.