Hi Their,  I wonder if anyone can help me find out more information on my Uncle
who was with 103 squadron ! he was based at Elsham Wolds between 1941 to 1943
when he and he's crew all died in Ahrensfelde just outside Berlin.  I know him &
he's crew are all buried at the Berlin war cemetary, but i'm looking for any
family members who might still be alive to-day who might have any photo's or
information about him or he's crew as i have managed to colate quiet a bit of
information on him so far but i am lacking any photo's of him and he's crew and
their plane.

  Also if anyone else would like any information that i do have on 103 squadron
or my uncles crew i would gladly pass on.

many thanks,


Marie ( Neice).

Hi please could anyone help i am trying to find out if lancaster
nd704 had H2s fitted it was flown by one of my family with 635 sqn
and i want to make a model of it thanks

Hi please could anyone help i am trying to find out if lancaster
nd704 had H2s fitted it was flown by one of my family with 635 sqn
and i want to make a model of it thanks

Hello Dave.
Thanks very much for looking in the spares box. I hope my site helps you out
with info etc.
Have a look at the main Nanton Lancaster site also as they have a section on
the dams raid.
www.lancastermuseum.ca

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Unlucky, but I will have a look in my scrap box because I built 2 tornados not long ago but I have an uneasy feeling they were 1/72. However, I will let you know in due course if I have any parts for your tornado.

 

As for the Lancaster project: The link to http://www.lancasterfm159.freeservers.com/ is very useful, thanks for the referral. It will be put to good use.

 

God Morning David.
Latest project for me was a 1/32 scale toronado that I picked up form a flea
market as it was partially built but came with extra parts. Sadly it is
missing one of the drop tanks from the wings. I have built many kits over
the years but I am also involved in the real thing as I emtnioned to you.
Two lancs I work with are here:
www.lancasterfm159.freeservers.com
and
www.lancasterfm212.freeservers.com
The website for the lancaster explored has some additional information on
it.
http://www.flyingzonedirect.com/lancastercdrom/lancasterindex.htm
Cheers,Peter

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Hello David.\ I will help you where ever I can and look forward to pregress
on the model as it sounds exciting! Having worked on the beast for the past
15 years it would be neat to help you out! Have you purchased the dvd
Lancaster explored? I have a copy here and it is a wealth of information.
Peter

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Sounds interesting David! Is there not a mod kit  that has all the parts
though? Normally you only see a 1/48 scale dambuster lanc.
Peter

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Hello David.
What project are you working on? Always interested in talking about
Lancasters,
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Hi everyone.

This was posted by Jeff Rankin-Lowe on the Wrecks and Relics mailing
list.

(for those not familiar with this group, it covers preserved and
retired aircraft, however, there are a fair few photographs posted on
it, so it is best to have ADSL or similar if you are going to join.
It is located at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wrecksnwrelics/ )

Warplane lands after 40 years

Jordan Press
Windsor Star
Friday, May 27, 2005

Standing in Jackson Park Thursday morning, Bill Hutchinson looked up
at
the plane he once flew.

"I flew these birds in the Second World War," the 81-year-old veteran
said staring at Windsor's Lancaster. "Once you got them up into
cruising
conditions, you could fly them hands off."

They flew easily and landed smoothly -- you just didn't want to go too
fast or you'd wear the brakes out, Hutchinson said with a laugh.

The crews surrounding one of the last remaining Lancasters in the
world
must have heard him. Just before 10:15 am, two giant cranes slowly
lifted the 60-year-old plane off its 4.85-metre pillar, slowly turned
it
due south and then gently touched down the 15,000 kilogram plane.

The Lancaster stood on its landing gear for the first time since 1965.

The whole operation took no more than 10 minutes.

"It's about time it comes down," said Brent Soucie, who came with his
wife Jennifer and eight-month-old son Cameron to the event. "I think
it
should be preserved."

"It's a piece of history," Jennifer told her son, holding him in her
arms.

The Avro Lancaster FM212 -- one of 17 (eight of which are in Canada)
that survived from the 7377 built -- landed after serving as a
memorial
to the 556 Royal Canadian Air Force members from Windsor who lost
their
lives in the Second World War.

"To the veterans, this plane represents more than just a memorial,"
said
Dennis Whitehead, president of the Windsor Air Force Club. "It is a
bridge...a bridge back to the past."

Even the cranes were a link to the past. Moir Crane Equipment Ltd.,
the
firm that originally installed the bomber in Jackson Park, provided
two
cranes to bring the plane down for free.

Around the plane, hundreds of people crowded, some standing, others
sitting on lawn chairs or towels on top of newly-cut grass. There were
those who lived through the Second World War, those who grew up after
the war and took an interest in the plane and students who came from
Kennedy high school next door to watch the deteriorating plane came
down.

"I have mixed emotions about that," Hutchinson said about the city
removing the plane. "I hate to see it come down, but it's the thing to
do."

In 1995, the city hired an aviation engineering firm to regularly
inspect the plane. Those inspections said exposure to the elements had
deteriorated the vintage aircraft. It was decided it needed to be in a
climate-controlled indoor location.

"It's important to preserve it," said 68-year-old Jim Cunningham,
sitting with his grandson Matthew Edwards, 4. "If it stays up there,
I'm
afraid it's not going to last too much longer."

The plane was built in Malton, Ont., in July 1945 and never flew
during
the war. Instead, it conducted photographic research of the Canadian
Arctic from 1956 to 1961, logging more than 8069 hours in the air.

The plan is to eventually have the plane on display at a museum and
use
it as a teaching tool, said S. Michael Beale, president of the
Canadian
Historical Aircraft Association.

Beginning Saturday, the Lancaster will be on display in the park and
open for tours from 9 am to 9 pm until June 10th. After that, the
wings
and engines will be disassembled and the Lancaster will be moved to a
hangar near the airport where it will be refurbished.

After the ceremony, some students stayed around, having got out of
class
to watch the plane's landing.

"We wanted to go. I used to walk by here," said Alix Jee, 16. Her
friend
Katie Fisher added: "There's a hole in Jackson Park."

ONLINE EXTRA

See photographs of the Lancaster bomber as it travelled up the Detroit
River and was then placed on a pillar at its new Jackson park home in
1965. Go to www.windsorstar.com

I'm going to the Lanc symposium in Toronto in a couple of weeks,
will post some info about it after.

http://www.torontoaerospacemuseum.com/home3.html

Jim

I would love more than anything to see Kermit unpack his Lancaster
andget her restored!

Great stuff.

Thanks Jim.  Keep up the good work.


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> Well I finally got around to doing it! I added all
> the links to
> Lancasters that I have collected. Survivors,
> Crashes, and misc info.
> Add more if you've found more info on the internet.
> Happy browsing.
> Jim
>
> http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/avrolancaster/links
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Darryl Gibbs.
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Well I finally got around to doing it! I added all the links to
Lancasters that I have collected. Survivors, Crashes, and misc info.
Add more if you've found more info on the internet.
Happy browsing.
Jim

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/avrolancaster/links

This was posted to the Vintage and Warbirds list by
Jeff rankin-Lowe.

I hope that they get plenty of support.

================================

Attention World Wide Avro Lancaster Enthusiasts!!!

This coming Tuesday February 22nd, I will finally be
meeting with the
Mayor, City of Edmundston officials and interested
local parties to
discuss the short and long term
preservation/restoration of Avro
Lancaster KB882.

As most of you know KB882 is a bona fide warbird with
several bombing
missions on her logs. After war time service, she went
on to fly for an
additional twelve years with 408 "Goose" Squadron. Now
it's time for us
to take care of the old girl, thus ensuring that KB882
will be here for
another 60 years and beyond.

I have been requested by the Mayor's Office to
illustrate to them how
much support they may receive from International
Aviation and Lancaster
enthusiasts. Here's your opportunity to get on board
and let the people
of Edmundston know just how important their Lancaster
is!

Any messages of support can be directed to my e-mail
address
(lancasterkb882@...) and/or the Edmundston
e-mail address
(Communication@...).

I hope to hear from as many of you as possible -- it
has been through
your support and co-operation over the past few years
that is making
this day possible! Please forward this message to as
many of your
contacts as possible!

CHEERS!

Troy Kirkby
Lancaster KB882 Supporter
http://www.lancaster-kb882.freeservers.com/index.html



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I was in Florida in January and got to the Fantasy of Flight museum.
It's worth the trip, and I got the answer to one of my Lancaster
questions. Where is KB976?
I posted a couple of photos in the photos section showing it's
location......
If anyone's interested I can post a few more photos and links to
other Lancs that are still around, perhaps this will become THE
source for Lancaster news ont he web!

take care
Jim

Just got my membership card for the Toronto Aerospace Museum, who are
in the process of restoring FM104 to static display. Hope to be able
to help actually work on a Lancaster soon.....
http://www.torontoaerospacemuseum.com/
Jim

Hello,My uncle flew in blenheims at first then stirlings the halifax
and lancasters.I did have his log book but someone borrowed it along
with his cap badge and i have not seen it since,i do not have any
photos of any of the planes and alas not having the log any more
unables me to trace any of his planes.

My uncle served in the RAF during ww2,he was a flight engineer on
stirlings halifax and others,i found his flight manual for pilots
and engineers along with his written notes at my great grandmothers
house ready for the dustbin,after 50 years she had decided the house
needed a tidy up and that my uncle then living in america and in his
70's didn't have much use for them.I don't plan to fly a heavy
bomber but i have read it.