Flypast
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight turned out their Avro Lancaster PA474 and Spitfire MK356 for yesterday's Bournemouth Air Festival. It has been way over a decade since I last saw the BBMF so the good weather was welcome. The seafront site at Bournemouth means that for photographs you basically have to shoot towards the sun but that was a minor point.
I hope the 'regulars' will forgive my repetition that the Lancaster brings back a teenage memory. I never flew in a Lancaster but whilst in the RAF Air Cadets I did fly out on a maritime patrol over the Atlantic aboard an Avro Shackleton. That aircraft was developed out of the Avro Lincoln which itself was developed from the Avro Lancaster shown above. So there are similarities!
Flypast
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight turned out their Avro Lancaster PA474 and Spitfire MK356 for yesterday's Bournemouth Air Festival. It has been way over a decade since I last saw the BBMF so the good weather was welcome. The seafront site at Bournemouth means that for photographs you basically have to shoot towards the sun but that was a minor point.
I hope the 'regulars' will forgive my repetition that the Lancaster brings back a teenage memory. I never flew in a Lancaster but whilst in the RAF Air Cadets I did fly out on a maritime patrol over the Atlantic aboard an Avro Shackleton. That aircraft was developed out of the Avro Lincoln which itself was developed from the Avro Lancaster shown above. So there are similarities!