hurricanemk1c 195 Posted August 30, 2012 Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 Hi all! As I stated in my last RIAT posting, I also went to the East Kirkby Heritage Centre, where a taxiable Lancaster is based. What a sound, I can tell you! First up is an overall shot of NX611, also registered as G-ASXX on the civil register Close up of the artwork Merlin power Long shot Tail gunner - one of the coldest and lonely places Liked the lighting on this one With a bit of time to kill before the taxi, we went into the hangar, where the remains of a Hurricane are displayed Selection of parts A fully-inflated Mosquito main wheel The remains of a H2S map - very interesting! Back outside - Engine start! Brum brum! Notice anything different? Can I have one? Whilst taking shelter in the cafe after the first run, it poured it down. This is the results The resident DC-3 42-100882, also known as N473DC - cleve eh? Bent guns 0.5in ammunition The remains of a Spittie One of the 8,000lb 'Cookie' blockbuster bombs A Tallboy bomb - 12,000lbs of aerodynamic perfection In the foreground are 1,000lbs GP bombs, whilst in the background is a 4,000lb Cookie Can I have one? Boing boing An F.52 camera and an instrument panel from a Halifax I believe Operation Whitebait tonight folks Here is your met forcast Can you see the Lanc? The scary board - how many wouldn't return? This is a reconstruction of a Hampden bomber - static display The second run of the day It's great being this close to 2 Merlins when they are at near-full blast! And finally, photo wise, the windsock pole - can you find the hole? And finally finally - a video taken by my uncle, who was in front of the Lanc at the second run Enjoy! Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 This is one place I have wanted to go for a long time, the 2 brothers that own the base and lanc have announced that they intend to get the lanc into flying condition, they already have the engines but are short of a prop or two, so if any of you out there have a prop or 2 lurking in the back yard. BTW nice pics! Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,495 Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Thanks for sharing Chuck, I really enjoyed that post, that's odd what they are doing to the engines in the video, I have never seen that before! Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 @ Joe - I think that was probably just standard mag checks and possibly prop cycling, though I didn't notice any changes in the apparent blade profiles from the latter. The apparent blade rotation in a video (or an old film movie) produces all kinds of odd illusions that aren't really happening. At one point a couple of the engines look like they stop and re-start in the opposite direction, which of course is impossible without some fancy way to reverse the camshaft gearing, etc. Some marine diesels were capable of that but certainly not these engines. Great sounds though, eh? John Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 when I was a wee nipper we used to fly from the UK to Nigeria ( where my father was posted for a while) and the a/c used back then was an avro York, imagine the noise of flying several legs of 6 or 8 hours? by the time you arrived at your destination you were deaf the a/c back then had precious little insulation of any kind it took you a good day to start talking in normal tones again. probably one of the reasons i can hear bugger all nowadays! Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,495 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 @John, watched it full screen and it's easier to see what's going on, we used to get this problem with cine cameras, I guess the same is true of digital. @Britfrog, that must have been a horrendous journey, I've had enough by the time I get to Jersey from Southampton on a Dash 8! Link to post Share on other sites
hurricanemk1c 195 Posted September 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 I think it's because a camera will see the blades, whereas the human eye can only see a blur Thanks for the comments folks! Link to post Share on other sites
britfrog 180 Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 as another little aside to the york flying, back then people dressed properly to go in an a/c the world hadnt been polluted with americans wearing jeans so men wore suits or sunday best and ladies wore dresses. One summer when we had been back to the UK for a holiday as we boarded the York a lady ran up to my mother with a young boy of about 4 as my mother was the only lady on the plane, she asked if my mother would mind if she would chaperone her son to nigeria where he would be met by his father, needless to say my mother agreed and off we flew. Now my father never returned to the uk, so mother had bought an expensive up to the minute top fashionable dress with which to arrive in Lagos, and as luck had it as we passed over the summer storms of Spain said young boy was ill, all over mothers new dress, she was not a happy bunny when we arrived many hours later in Lagos having had to sit there covered in yuk with all the din of the engines, Link to post Share on other sites
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