CWHM Lancaster leaves the UK
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2014
- All good things must come to an end and today was the day that the Canadian Lancaster tour of the UK ended. This film shows the final take off from UK soil and the start of the long journey back to the Canadian Warplanes Heritage Museum in Ontario Canada.
Much 💘 to Canada and the pilots who served Britain in a time of need. Total respect
Well said that man
How can you thumbs down this.. seriously... these are flying pieces of history.
Leftie anti-war types, who have no respect for the bravery of so many fallen.
It was fabulous to see two Lancasters flying together, a sight we may never see again! Thanks to all who served in Bomber Command.
We have to wait another 6 years before Lancaster NX611 flies again......she's being restored to flying condition at East Kirkby, 8 miles from RAF Coningsby.
@@stevebroughton4787 Sadly, it is now 8 yrs since this marvelous event, and still we wait for NX611, to take to the skies. It takes money, to speed up the process, I send whatever I can, when I can. If only more ''Supporter's'' dipped in their pockets, she will be reborn sooner.
I had lunch today 27th June 2024 at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. Had a good meal and VROAwas sitting outside the Hanger getting ready to head out to an Airshow this weekend.
She remains an absolute Beauty.
Every free man should have tears in his eyes.
Hopefully Vera, Thumper, and all of these classic aircraft which have done their time, and have rightfully earned their rest, will continue to take to the skies for many years to come.
oh my god what a sight. The greateset generation. I was born in 57 and literally all my relatives served in the war. One great Uncle lead a platoon at Normandy. My Dad was a landing craft driver on his way to Japan when the war ended. My Uncle was first occupation forces in Japan. Another Uncle was a cook in the navy on a destroyer and his job when at GQ was to man an anti aircraft gun and pass the ammunition up to the loader because he had "good hands. My neighors' Dad was a combat engineer and went across Europe setting up Pattons'c command posts. Another kid's Dad was a navigator on B 24s and his plane took many hits on several missions. I was peacetie USAF 82 to 92 and hats off to real service men
I live under the flight path of Vera, so am often 'serenaded' in my apartment. Its sound is music, low thrum reverberating all around me. It always makes me smile.
I couldn't agree more. She always flies over my house when she visits my city.
My father was a Warrant officer and navigator on a Lancaster, 408 Goose Squadron RCAF. Was shot 3 times in the leg by a German fighter over Hamburg. It hampered him in later life. The 408 Squadron motto "For Freedom"
I grew up in Hamilton Ontario. My Father took me to all the airshows at Mt. Hope airport. It's now called John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum is there. I always had an interest in aviation and especially the war birds. I remember when I was about 12 years old, I was playing right field in a baseball game when I noticed a Chinook helicopter carrying the fuselage of that mighty beast off in the distant sky on the way to the museum to be restored. I missed a fly ball because of that but it didn't matter. My eyes were fixed on history. They did a fine job bringing this beautiful Lancaster back to life and I love the fact that it's still flying frequently even today.
We sit and watch these beautiful aircraft pass overhead with pride Whilst the men during the war would have dreaded climbing into them. Every time they fly above me I can’t help but think of the men that where inside these magnificent aircraft during those horrible years and what they must of thought and felt. The fear must of been unbearable. I wear my Poppy every year for those men. They are our Heroes!
Well said.
neil hilton And the ones that didn’t make it home true history in the sky
Got mine tattooed
Behind Scampton there is the Village of Scampton, If you have time go and 0lok in the church yard at the grave stones young guys as young as 19- 20- 21 some captains of these planes, There are a a few German graves to,
Vera is based here in Canada about 15 km’s from where I live. We see and hear her often in the summer sky. We are blessed to experience that.
I have watched this wonderful video several times over the years, it never gets old.
I will always regret I wasn't there to see it. The moments when the aircraft paused while taxiing and turned towards the perimeter fence to salute the onlookers was amazing. It brought me out in goosebumps and, if I'm honest, also brought a lump to my throat. Such a shame the wind drowned out most of the engine sounds - 12 Merlins are a special kind of orchestra!
Yes, I do have a connection with Lancasters. My father served in Bomber Command from 1943 (when he was 19!), as an air gunner in these amazing aircraft. He passed away last October.
Thank you for you’re kind comments and I am glad you get so much pleasure from the footage. I was lucky enough to be involved with ‘Vera’ while she was here in particular the meeting of the three Avro’s at RAF Waddington at which time I was working with Vulcan XH558. I also was able to get onboard ‘Vera’ while she was on the ground. The video of that day is also listed here on my channel. All the best. Lee.
Well done Brits. I'm descendant from you and I still feel a connection. There's something about a Lancaster...
What a gorgeous video of these war birds together!!
Hard to imagine dozens of Lancaster's roaring through the sky.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful footage so us folk on the other side of the world can enjoy it.
Lucky for me I get to see Vera nearly every day during the summer months. Every time I hear her coming I stop what I’m doing to watch her fly by. So many people just don’t know enough about it to appreciate it the way I do. It’s a shame really. They had FiFi the B29 flying with her a couple weeks back. That’s a cool sight to see.
Also a few years back they had the worlds only flying Mosquito here as well. Was nice to see so many Merlin’s in the sky at one time.
Living on the ouskirts of Caledonia myself, we see the Museums aircraft flying over (well, you dont need to see the lanc, you can feel it) almost daily in the summer months
I’m so jealous you get to see those beautiful aircraft every day. You’re so lucky.
Not in the UK unfortunately and we built most of them. 🤨😒☹️
It's a shame there isn't more of them left. I appreciate the sight, unfortunately a lot of people have no idea what it even is. 😕
@@Triple87 there is a third Lancaster that is being prepared to take flight soon and her name is Just Jane
Wow 2 beautiful lancs together ! Wish I was there to see that. Thanks to whoever uploaded
I’m very lucky...I live near Hamilton, Canada...and get to see Vera fly over our house all the time...nothing like the sound of those engines...
Well you don't see that every day ! Many thanks for sharing this, an amazing site to see. Never forget Churchill's words " never has so much been owed by so many to so few ." Spot on.
Do visit the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Mount Hope airport near Hamilton, Ontario. A great flying museum and the home to VRA Lancaster. Take a look at their website.
I research Canadians Missing In Action (MIA). One of them was RCAF Flying Officer John MILLAR, a Lancaster pilot, from Edmonton, Alberta attached to 44 Royal Air Force Squadron. He piloted his Lancaster on several missions over Germany, Italy and France, and in February 1943, while leading his Squadron Lancasters on a night bombing raid on the German Naval UBoat base at Lorient, after dropping their bomb load on the huge concrete submarine pens, his Lancaster was damaged by anti-aircraft fire and was seen turning west out over the Atlantic. He and his entire crew (of RCAF and RAF ) and Lancaster were never seen again. No trace of his crew nor their Lancaster has ever been seen since.
Surviving members of his squadron reported that Lancaster as "Failing To Return" (FTR) to their airbase at RAF Waddington. The entire crew were then reported to their Next Of Kin (NOK) as being Missing In Action, believed killed.
Of special note, my research has uncovered the fate of his older brother Royal Canadian Engineer (RCE) Lieutenant William MILLAR. He was the officer in charge of a party of RCE "sappers" assigned demolition duties in the port of Dieppe during the fateful Dieppe Raid in August of 1942. He was captured on Red Beach in Dieppe and with other Canadian Prisoners of War, force marched away from Dieppe under heavy guard. While on a POW train from France to an Officers POW camp at Eichstadt, Germany, he and other Canadian POWs lept from the train and went on the run in Nazi occupied France until recaptured some five days later. Shipped again by train to Eichstadt, he and other Canadian Dieppe POWs escaped from a prison castle where they had been ordered held to be handcuffed daily under Hitlers personal orders. He went on the run to Austria where he was again recaptured nine days later. He was returned to the Officers POW camp at Eichstadt where his RCE engineering tunnelling training was put to use to contribute to an escape tunnel. Over 35 POWs escaped and he was again on the run until recaptured some seven days later.
Designated as a "persistent escaper" he was re-assigned to the Germans special high security castle prison at Colditz, joining those already imprisoned there. On arrival he researched previous successful escape routes and in February of 1944, he managed a successful individual escape by hiding under a German truck which was then ordered out of the prison during an air raid. He was reported as escaped through secret POW communications with the British secret service agency responsible for Escape and Evasion (MI9), but no official record was heard of him by German military High Command nor the International Red Cross. Detailed research in the MI9 declassified wartime files and those of captured Gestapo records now reveal that once he had again successfully escaped POW custody from Colditz, he had been secretly redesignated as "a political enemy of the Third Reich" under a German secret POW order titled: "Kugel Erlass" (Bullet Decree) revealed from captured German Secret Service records in 1945. That order removed the POW protected status under the Geneva Convention governing the status and treatment Prisoners of War.
That secret order was applied to Lieutenant MILLAR who had been recaptured in occupied Czechoslovakia by agents of the Gestapo.....the order specified that all recaptured escaped Allied Prisoners of War were to be removed from any German military custody on their recapture and immediately turned over to the Gestapo, escorted under guard to the Austrian Nazi Concentration camp at Mauthausen and executed on arrival by the camp SS staff, their bodies to be cremated and ashes scattered, their fate at the camp then reported as "having been shot while attempting to escape"......that act being a designated war crime, camp SS guards who were captured during the US Army liberation of the camp,we're all charged for war crimes against allied prisoners of war.....many were then convicted and hung. Until captured German and released MI9 records were found, RCE Lieutenant William MILLAR had joined his younger brother, John, an RCAF Lancaster pilot, as having been listed as "Missing In Action" believed killed. They are now.....remembered.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing this .
What fantastic courage, he could have just sat back and put his feet up and waited till the end of the war, but no he continued the fight as best he could, I'll bet there wouldn't be many nowadays that would have carried on like that, I have the ultimate respect and thanks for all that he and the others did, Thanks again, lest we forget.
Thank you for sharing the story, we must remember and respect their sacrifice for our freedoms.
Probably the only time I will see Two Lancs in the air together . I was there stood at the fence trying to get some good shots when I thought this is really special, I need to be getting better pictures . Looking around I could see a stack of hesston bales so ran over to them and with some help from some others climbed up on top . We had a great view . Got great pictures . You can see us stood on the bales in this clip as the Canadian lanc flies over . Brilliant , just awesome . Will never forget it. Thank you to the guys who helped me up onto the bales .
8 fools disliked this WHY WHY WHY ,I on the other hand have a lot of respect for the Elderly Generation that flew this when they were young Pilots in WW2 ,We owe them a dept of Respect and also thank those who flew this and Service to their Country,LEST WE FORGET 💕💕💕👏👏👏👏😢
misclicks my dude, misclicks
Misscliks or trolls
No mater what the video there are always dick heads that disliked and its now 27,I love this
Not all fools. Listen to the voices of children in the clip. The Lancastershire bomber fire bombed and killed many tens of thousands of children who shared a culture with the Brits. Not their fault that the blasted Nazis ruled Germany. Ex mil and a pilot so naff off any idiots.
@@UncleBoratagain Hienkels, Dorniers, Junkers......they killed BRITISH kids first.....no one is excluded from total war.
My Dad was the bomb aimer in a Lanc 1943-45. Based at an airfield near Spilsby, Lincs. (RAF Fursby?). He beat the 50% odds of never coming back and returned to Canada, to his job in a bank and his wife and toddler son (me). This video makes me think of what he and his fellow RCAF and RAF airmen faced in those days. They were called, and they did their duty. Impossible for us these days to fully appreciate their valor. Thanks for this video which gives me an inkling of what he did.
My farther was a wireless operator in Lancasters during the war with 166 squadron based in Kirmington. Sadly no longer with us he died in 1984 from Altzeimers said to be caused flying such high altitudes in his life. Towards the end of his life I took him to Hendon and for a brief time I had got my old dad back as he sat and stared at the Lanc or "Charlie" as he called it. I recently sold his logbook, goggles, hemet and flying missions to a collector in Canada as Hendon didn't want them because they had too many! His DFM remains with my sister. To most senior British citizens these events bring back the life we used to live in where we had values on living not lusting, where people not persessions were important. Thank you to all others who dedicate themselves to keeping memories alive and to remind us all how fortunate we are.
Altzeimers is awful, its like you lose them twice. Its a shame all these old guys from this time are dying off. With each one goes a wealth of knowledge a lifetime of experiences that cannot be replaced.
It's disgraceful Hendon not wanting your Father's kit shows they're not bothered really, shame on them.
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I can only assume that flying in such aircraft in such conditions was often a terrifying experience. To do it over and over again until ..... you know what, takes incredible courage. Respect !!
My Dad was in 166 at Kirmington too! Sadly he has passed away. I have all his stuff - including his log book, his uniform, his compass. Boxes of things. It all came back from the war with him, home to Australia, then to marry my mother who he met before he left for England.
What an amazing sight. My father was a bomb aimer on one of these beauties with the RCAF. He stayed in the air force after the war and was the navigator on a Lancaster that did the Parliament Buildings flypast at Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
Wow that's amazing and thanks for you're comment. I hope you liked the video it was an honour to be there and be a part of this actually happening in this country.
Sad to see it go, but glad its home
If you’re passing through Calgary Alberta, take a short side trip south to Nanton and visit the Bomber Command museum. Over 200,000 commonwealth airmen learned their trades in the air over Western Canada. If you arrive on the right day in the summer, you’ll be there when the Lancaster comes out of the hanger and fires up it’s four merlins.
I was lucky enough to see these two Lancasters fly at Headcorn in Kent. To me that was very emotional and something I will never forget for the rest of my days. All that flew in the fight for our freedom are always in my mind. Would love to see the Canadians back over here when Just Jane is air worthy to see all three airborne. And then to return the favor and see them fly over there and New Zealand and Australia, as the previous chap in the last message said we are indebted to our forces.🤜🤛
12 Merlins, more stunning than Mozart.
I get to see Vera every once and a while but what a sight all those aircraft together.
Thank you for sharing the moment. Had the privilege of watching the pair at Duxford.
Absolutely amazing ! Enough said.
GOOSEBUMPS! Thank you
Absolutely beautiful aircraft.
Magnificent. Thanks for your efforts in producing and posting this. Strike Hard. Strike Sure.
the sounds of that engine incredible
Sept. 11, 2016 Had the pleasure of seeing "Vera" flying over downtown Toronto this morning - a beautiful sight!
Very nice, thanks for posting the video.
It still brings a tear to the eye, every time
I see them flying together.
Sad.
I went to the museum, just outside Hamilton, Ontario to see the Lancaster but it was away at an airshow in the U.S.
Did she not land in Scotland (still part of the UK last time I looked) on the way back? Fantastic the fighters leaving the formation, brought tears to my eyes.
Hey come to Virginia Beach, we have a flying Mossie , Spit, and Hurri. And the runway is 300 foot in front of you. Vera came one year and the flyby were great. It's a grass field as well. They have numerous Fw190s and Me109s to chase them around. Warbirds Over the Beach is in May for WWII flying. You can't beat it.
I remember this well.. 8 years ago, Where does the time go.. From 9:00 looks like an actual bombing mission with fighter escort. Amazing sight, amazing sounds..
Very nicely done. Thank you so much. You should try to convince the powers that be to reciprocate the visit. Say , next summer ? We , here in the " colony " that's called Canada , would love to see and hear the two fly together.
its a verry nice plane to see and here love the sound off the engines
On this the 75th annivetsary of VE day , We Will Remember the brave men of Bomber Command. Men who are still being recovered from Dutch soil.
ver esos lancaster con los cuatro motores rol roys ermosos unicos irepetibles y losespidfair volar otra ves es placer unico solo en inglaterra unica
Big heavy bastards! Love them!
Thanks for sharing your video.
Absolutely brilliant
25 people Dislike Freedom how sad.
Beautiful video of my Hearitage being the fact that on my Mother side of the family is British
thanks an excellent flying memorial to the sacrifice of all the aircrew attempting to rid the world of a malevolent evil in Nazism. long may they continue
Excellent video.
The roar from those just 2 Lancaster's. Imagine the noise on a raid with hundreds
Ballsie thing bringing CWHM's Lancaster across the North Atlantic twice and wracking up all those hours on the Merlins. Good going boys and girls!
Bickle Seagrave trailer guy Cost them160 thousand for a blown Merlin which delayed Vera’s return to
Canada.
We're Canadians and that's how we roll. Bring yours over to Canada so we can have the same enjoyment of seeing the two Lancs flying together!
Wait a bit and we could send 2
Bruce Walchuk. I READ THAT THE RAF HAD GIFTED IT TO THEM
dont think the Canadian lancs had merlin engines,
The Lancaster in Canada is undergoing repairs. I believe she's out somewhere in British Columbia. My uncle was a rear gunner in WWII.
Any maintainance done to the Canadian aircraft are done in its home hanger in Hamilton Ontario, there might be somekind of other lanc project going on in bc
Thanks for putting this up. What magnificent, graceful aircraft they are and flying across the Atlantic with 70+ year old engines is pretty courageous considering what could go wrong. I wonder, do they magnaflux every square inch of them? They must have accumulated some fair stresses in the main spars not to mention the chance of an engine dropping a valve or having a conrod fail!
I live not far from Coningsby in Lincolnshire Bomber Country had the pleasure of seeing these two old lady's a few times. Pity the Lanc at East Kirkby was not airworthy, Now that would have been a sight 3 Lancaster's together.
It is being made airworthy, she will fly again.
A beautiful sight
Thank you Canada.
at least we know she got home safely - how many times there must have been 'gaps' in formations on return trips !
RR Merlin power plants.They make a wonderful and beautiful snarl.
Again, the yank dildo downcrying the Brits. Packard built Merlins, get that, built under licence from Rolls Royce. You are in a serious bubble donkey!!!!
@soaringtractor The Irish immigrant is back after a year away, why is that ST?, been in jail, your boyfriend not letting you near the computer. Glad to see on your post, even though you didn't realise it, is the fact you have acknowledged that the Merlin is by RR and packard produced them under licence. Most UK historians acknowledge that packard produced Merlins as the UK factories were being bombed regularly and output was being affected. I suppose next you'll tell me the Mustang was an American design and fitted with a shit engine, the Allison. Even though the designers were developing the aircraft from UK specs. And what a shit plane it was until they fitted the Merlin engine to it. Likewise the P-40, a beautiful aircraft, limited in its capability, then they brought the N model out and it changed dramatically, why, because they put a Merlin in it. Your hatred of the British is childish, you must seriously get out more, being in the basement obviously doesn't agree with you. Such is life.
@@silvergtotwinturbo9984 he drinks the kool-aid!! Far too much of it!!
Great video
Can anyone tell me how long it took her to get back to Canada 🇨🇦 and how many stop overs ? It must have been great for other country’s to see this land and take off 🇬🇧
I had the same thought, what route. Anyway great to see and hear.
A hum of relief to friendly forces
The death song to enemy infantry
and a music to everyone today
Does anyone know what happened over the north-western approaches when FM213 arrived, or when she departed. Was she met or escorted by any aircraft out there, an RAF aircraft perhaps?
I'm so sorry .. my dad is 94 and going well... he made Mosquitoes during the war. when in East Anglia
What is better than one Merlin? A dozen of them 😊❤️
Don't let soaringfracture read that you haven't labelled them as packard Merlins. Even though they were Rolls Royce designs and the British desperately needed them, but as the factories were constantly bombed the Brits needed them built by a factory well away from the war zone. They hawked the engine around all the engine manufacturers in the States and no-one wanted to touch them as they were too complicated. It took a lot of convincing to packard who eventually agreed to make them UNDER LICENCE. So they were still Merlin engines, built under licence from Rolls Royce.
A DB-605
I havent seen this vidio before,,, what camera are you using??
We need ‘Just Jane’ in the air
It will happen very soon.
Soon there will be three flying Lancaster’s
Great
Did they both fly to Canada! Where?🙏🇸🇪
I'd give my left ear to experience inside that turret
which one
There was Lancaster based at RAF Waddington as near as I recall. Does anyone know if it is still there ?
AndrewKoala sure you are not on about the avro vulcan there
12 Merlns in full song! Wow.
4 Years ago today
th-cam.com/video/NdE7P6U5mug/w-d-xo.html 9:30 - Turn the sound up and go full screen! Magical.
which RAF Base was this?
RAF Coningsby
Play at max volume. BTW I agree with all the comments re new invaders and those who would threaten our traditions and culture.
Wish she could stay 😪
Im not usually quite but cant say anything
Lancaster Bomber tribute song - th-cam.com/video/Zbm5k4IPeYQ/w-d-xo.html
Tragic that men who fought and died in these aircraft should now see the land they loved sprayed from morning til night with aluminium, barium, and strontium.
And nobody says anything.
What are you talking about ?
Glad someone noticed. I was thinking exactly the same.
@carroj9 and what?? He isn't talking a company in the us is he? He's convinced that government here is doing it and making chem trails..
I'm a flyer too. The strange thing I saw was a balloon resembling Sadiq Khan your Mayor of London who is causing the 50,000 lost airmen to spin in their graves.
@@graemewilliams1308 na you're just a racist prick. So men that fought against fascists like you would be turning in thier graves eh? I think not.
35 dislikes ?.
Shame that the tight wad didn't purchase a family ticket instead of looking over the fence. Disgraceful
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Next time when you film something like this, please will you put your camera on a tripod and not wave it around like a 15yr old!
I get to watch Vera every Saturday here in Niagara Falls when VFR .
Same here in St. Catharines, when she fly's to and from the Falls, Going back to Hamilton. Well Mount Hope.