This weekend we took at trip to Lincoln to the IBCC and then to the East Kirkby museum for the end of season night time show of the Lancaster “Just Jane” and the Mosquito.
First we attended the Bomber command centre museum and the war memorial to bomber command. The numbers are very telling with 55,000 dead aircrew.
It has a good set of historical films and interpretative displays
After our visit we moved on the East Kirkby museum. It’s a historic wartime bomber base that is working to restore a Lancaster to full airworthiness. I do a regular monthly donation to buy a rivet or two .In order to help pay toward the expected £4m total cost it does various public taxi runs throughout the year . This event is the night time run . It is also combined with restoration Mosquito project . So you get to see.both aircraft taxying on the field - and hear 6 Merlin engines thundering away. There were various other vendors and bits of the museum to see along with the end of night firework show. All in all it was an excellent visit . There was a raffle prize of a ride in the Lancaster that night - I suspect Mrs D would have fought me for that - missed it by about 400 tickets !
Season over - it’s back to restoration with the new wing jigs under construction. Hopefully we will be back next year - I will be looking at options to actually get a ride in it .
On my side of the pond a 45 min flight on Lancaster KB726 Mynarski costs about $3,600 CDN of which $1,500 is a tax deducible donation. Still thinking about it. https://www.warplane.com/aircraft/flights/buy.aspx
ReplyDeleteWell you can’t take it with you as they say . Pretty sure it will be around that when they get her flying here ,
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