Re: Is this still working????
You get to see Tornados then. They've grown on me in recent years.
The Lanc - well, yeah, it has the same kind of tail as the Mitchell, but the
engines make a big difference. The Lanc had/has four, of course - and they
were Rolls Royce Merlins - what were in the Spits (I think the Hurricanes
had Merlins too, actually). So the Lanc had four Spitfire engines! I think
that whole era was marked among other things by aircraft that seemed like
failures until they fitted Rolls Royce engines and suddenly they were high
performers!
They've revamped that RAF site now and several pics that were there don't
appear to be anymore (though I got them yonks ago!). Including one where
they're loading the biggest bomb used in the whole war prior to
you-know-what (I forget the name, but it was essentially a bunker buster -
and I suppose therefore the first bunker buster). Lancs had really big bomb
bays but could only carry one of these things.
Actually I have seen another Lanc, but it isn't flying - at the RAF museum
in Hendon - where they've got one of those bombs, too (Big Bertha,
perhaps?). It's got nose art including Goering's claim that none of them
would ever fly over the Reich - next to the bombing mission stencils (a lot
of them!).
Actually here's the one that came over:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1207411/L/
And a slightly more disrurbing view:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1201552/L/ (one wonders where she keeps
her stetson!)
And here's the one at Hendon:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1185500/L/.
The Lancaster was the most potent prop bomber we ever built. It was built by
Avro (originally A V Roe) who also built arguably the most potent jet bomber
we ever produced - the Vulcan - and there's one at the back, out of shot to
the left of the one at Hendon - and just out of shot to the left but in the
foreground - is a Mitchell! (and a B-17).
Ah!:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1034063/L/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1016887/L/
The Lanc (that I flew over) is one of only two flying examples left in the
world today. The other is in Canada - like many of our aircraft they were
also made in Canada (how come Canada isn't known as 'The Can'?). The
Canadian ones were called Lincolns - for the place they were built - as I
understand it. Anyhow, that's how come when you see a Lanc fly over, you
know which one it is!
Another shot at the RAF site - not sure if it's still there - is of the raid
to sink the Turpitz. Like a still from a movie! But, of course - as I expect
you know - the Lancaster was the Dambusters aircraft, and aside from a
couple of effects that show their age - and a bit about a dog that also
shows its age! - 'The Dambusters' is the film par excellence for Lancaster
spotting (speaking of which I saw that Roberts' Mitchum and Wagner one about
Korea that seemed more than anything else to be about the Sabre! I never
even knew the film existed, but saw it a couple of months back. far out when
Mitchum deliberately crash lands one behind enemy lines! Looked like they
did it for real! But I suppose there were so many of them and they were so
cheap...).
Shane
Heirloom wrote:
> Forgot to add this site..............really good hi-res pics, but,
> not a lot to choose from.
> http://www.zap16.com/Sanicole 2004.htm Oh yeah, and check out the
> wallpapers...there are a couple of hi-res close ups of your Lanc!! i.e.
> http://www.zap16.com/images/desktop_lancaster_1024-768.jpg
> Heirloom, old and still likes older planes
>
> "Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23U%23LNiPwHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> I've considered trying Nero 7, Mike. Not that I feel any particular
>> need to drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think
>> of it? It is an extremely large download, isn't it! btw I also use
>> Nero Vision and the two combined are pretty large, of course. But
>> there still seem to be a lot of modules in there - in 6.x, let alone
>> 7.x! - that I'm never going to use.
>>
>> But maybe I will download it. After all I've got Server 2008 coming
>> down the tubes, so Nero 7.x isn't so large.
>>
>> btw the Lanc went over again today! Must be a year since last time
>> then. I gues it's Kemble weekend.
>>
>> What a sight though! I never saw a Lanc as a kid. So now I've seen
>> one - it - mthree times. The first time was quite high up but made
>> my chest quake just the same. Last year it banked above the house.
>> This year it came over, straight. It was gone that much sooner, but
>> it was a different aspect. In fact like:
>> http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1944/lancaster1800.jpg
>> only below rather than from above. Still only minimum allowed
>> height. Like last year it was the dawning realisation that it wasn't
>> a Cessna coming towards me!
>>
>> I seem to have developed an uncanny knack of getting under the flight
>> paths of interesting aircraft these last half dozen years!
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike M wrote:
>>> Heirloom <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What program(s) do you utilize for your DVD burning, Mike??
>>>> Heirloom, old and just curious
>>>
>>>
>>> Primarily Ahead's Nero. v7 something on my main media box and v6.60
>>> something on this box, both running XP Pro SP2. I also use, but for
>>> CDs, the last version of CeQuadrat's WinOnCD before it was bought
>>> and killed off by Roxio because I prefer the interface for creating
>>> CD-Text and also for adding track markers for continuous live
>>> material. CloneCD for the odd CD copy. I think that's all I'm
>>> using nowadays. I've got lots of other stuff that includes
>>> elementary burning software that mainly hooks into XP's imapi.dll
>>> but I rarely if ever use it. 