We will never stop it but war leads to a terrible waste of assets.
Many of the practice runs were done over the dams at Derwent just a few miles from us. There was a big reunion a few years ago with the remaining 617 veterans in attendance plus the usual suits and dignitaries and 1000's of sight see'ers. There were fly by's from a couple of Spitfires, a Hurricane, a Lancaster, the Vulcan and a couple of modern fighter jets, Tornados I think. I still have the commemorative program somewhere.
I've still got the video of two Lancs flying over Derwent somewhere.Many of the practice runs were done over the dams at Derwent just a few miles from us. There was a big reunion a few years ago with the remaining 617 veterans in attendance plus the usual suits and dignitaries and 1000's of sight see'ers. There were fly by's from a couple of Spitfires, a Hurricane, a Lancaster, the Vulcan and a couple of modern fighter jets, Tornados I think. I still have the commemorative program somewhere.
I've still got the video of two Lancs flying over Derwent somewhere.
That's where my VHS is too.I filmed the fly by on a Sony Video 8 video camera and transferred it to a VHS tape which I still have somewhere even though we stopped using the VHS player years ago and relegated it to the loft!
That's awful, going through all that carnage unscathed and then to be killed in an accident.However, within 6 months of Dad leaving and his pilot taking up his new position, Dad got the news that he'd been killed in a training accident.
He was heartbroken.
I don't know if any are still flying Clive but these may be of interest.Brilliant, I'll bet that was a sight!
The old bombers look so slow in the air, you'd think they wouldn't even be able to fly at that speed, it's only about 200 mph cruising airspeed I think.
I wonder if there's any Halifax's still flying? It would be nice to think there are.
I don't know if any are still flying Clive but these may be of interest.