Lancaster Bomber Trip Sat 24th October - VIDEOS ADDED

[Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO]

Room for another fruitcake?

Half hood on, rain x applied and waterproof trousers at the ready!

See you at Newark.

[Greenstreak-Andy D]

Enjoy the run Julie, let's hope rain holds off.

I'll see you there, as I will be leaving Sandbach about 10:30ish.

Andy

[westy21]

Have an aged parent emergency and being diverted West over the Pennines. Apologies for being awol Julie but hope the days goes well.

Nigel.

[s2rrr]

What a cracking day out 300 mile round trip well worth it, well done to Julie for organising it. Good to meet the fellow members and partners and a big thanks to Andy for bringing his dad along an ex Lancaster aero mechanic what a gent. Hope you all made it home safely.

 

 

 

Bob   

[Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO]

Well Bob, we did get home eventually!!!

After the wiper failure just before arriving at the heritage centre we had indicator failure, one stop to re-attach roof fixings and finally a bout of misfiring. The engine refused to take any load without cutting out meaning crawling up hills but good speed downhill! No apparent problems under the bonnet but after further coughing and spluttering it then inexplicably cleared for the last few miles, running as well as ever!

Home anyway, supping tea after a very enjoyable day. Good to see everybody and to experience the Lancaster at close quarters.

[s2rrr]

Excellent probably a bit of water in the electrics.

 

Pleased you made it home safely.

 

Bob

[Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO]

Well there was water every where else!

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

Oh wow, what an amazing day...again. Although the rain was never heavy I can say that it did rain from meeting in Newark at The Friendly Farmer, all day, until we got right to the front door at 6.10pm. All except for the 30 minutes the Bomber came out of the hangar, creepy. We got home in the light though, better than the 'Via Gellia road by candlelight' of the previous few weeks. Is there a Meatloaf song somewhere in that sentence?

 

4 Westfields and 6 members is a great turn out and I cannot thank everyone enough for coming, you are great, nuts, but great nuts.

 

We met MartnV and Sue, Sean and Emma (Ormus Knight) at a dry Friendly Farmer, where we had breakfast.

 

 

Until it rained

 

 

It was a soggy run there and we picked AndrewBClarke and Clare up on the way.

 

 

Bob(S2rrr) was waiting for us when we arrived and we got treated very, very well. We were parked in a display area near the RBL bikes and the MG Club cars.

 

 

Then it was cake time, surrounded by memorabilia, see cake even comes before the plane.

 

 

We had an hour or so to look around the museums. There were aircraft wrecks, displays of life in the war years and loads of interesting stories and facts. I reckon if you spend about a week in there you might just get round it all. Then we met up with Andy (Greenstreak) and his dad, Henry, the star of the day. I felt very humbled to be stood next to him, a man that maintained Bombers during the war. Who can say they did that today?

 

Crashed

 

 

Aren't we an ugly bunch, don't get too close

 

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

After the cake, it was Bomber time.

 

 

A cute little kit car, made of all sorts and then donated to the museum.

 

 

The Taxy run, why is it you stand there, mouth open with your heart beating fast for no apparent reason. Then they let a load of poppies out of the wing flaps and this strange lump appears in your throat. Brilliant. 

 

 

 

The the Royal British Legion riders displayed

 

 

Then it was our turn

 

 

I did well there, an account of the day and I never mentioned Martyn's failed WINDSCREEN WIPERS or his INDICATORS, I said I wouldn't mention them  .

After fuelling up, which proved challenging when 2 stations had run out of petrol, we went our separate ways. A strange drive home, the roads were all straight and flat and then, with the roof on, we had not got twenty layers of clothing on, weird.

[Greenstreak-Andy D]

My dad and I enjoyed the day. Great to meet Julie Martin Sue bob and everyone else.

Great seeing Just Jane again

Always a special place for me and dad

Some great photos posted there!

Andy and my dad Henry

[Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative]

A video of the cars

 

https://youtu.be/Wujq08Ts-UM

 

A video of the Bomber

 

https://youtu.be/6v-xv-9QNrs

[Martyn Vann - Warwickshire AO]

Another video of Lancaster, 'Just Jane', dropping poppies from its wing flaps!

 

http://youtu.be/Fs8GAVCfSg4