Bruce Compton Gets Asked To Help Restore A Lancaster Bomber | Combat Dealers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2021
- Bruce Compton is a master of finding military memorabilia of all shapes & sizes, and as a result, is asked to help find some missing pieces to restore this iconic Lancaster bomber.
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only 2 of the 17 still around are flyable, and I get to see it fly every week in the summer.
Just Jane is the third one that might be able to fly like her two Sisters Thumper and Vera
Excitable101 me too, aren't we fortunate 👍👍👍👍
@@MrSEANDEERE We can only dream...
I fell in love with the Lancaster after building an Airfix one in the 70s as a kid.
I was fortunate enough to take my dad on a taxi ride in Just Jane in 2010.
We were lucky to have an ex pilot who flew them during the war as well. As we taxied around we were at 2,200rpm..everything was vibrating. The old RAF guy explained that take off power was 2,500rpm with an overboost of 2,800rpm available - I can't imagine what that was like as during wartime these aircraft would be loaded way beyond their peacetime limits.
I'll always be in awe of those quiet heroes who flew these aircraft, until 1944 the RAF was the only way we had at hitting back at the Nazis and the fact that these men flew night after night when statistically the odds of them completing a tour of 30 ops were negative is beyond my comprehension.
Lest we forget.
One of my Dads friends bailed out of a Lancaster during the war. I was very lucky to read his prisoner of war diary and his mission log.
I had the privilege of a taxi run in this aircraft for my 60th birthday present from my wife, I will never forget it, god bless all aircrew who did it for real 🙏🏻
Like the bloke says. they were all of 18 19 20 years old,that generation matured into functioning adults, and will always be admired.the greatest!
The jets he identified as F16s are actually Typhoons based at RAF Coningsby
My dad flew in a Lancaster in his National Service in the 1950s! Why so few around now?😼
@@padijeff5675 sold for scrap metall at the end of service
Photographed from a Canberra.......
haha thoud the exact same dude that is not a f16
Ye noticed it straight away
Freddie is one of the Heroes of Easy Company who fought a 50 day battle against the Taleban in Helmund, well done Freddie
I visit Lancaster VRA at the Canadian Warbird Heritage Museum (Hamilton Ont) a couple of times a year. Its my way of supporting the project and saying thanks to those who flew it in earnest. I've seen it fly many times and it always gives me a chill. Lest We Forget.
I went there in 2018 , a fantastic place . Had a fantastic flight in the Lancaster 800 feet above Niagra falls two wonders of the World in one day ! What a trip
Myself an my Dad went for my 40th birthday in 2010. I had a taxi ride an my Dad got to come on-board afterwards. Was on board for well over an hour. Was an amazing an very humbling experience, the bravery an devotion to duty that those who served in Bomber Command showed is almost incomprehensible. Truly an amazing generation of people, I consider myself very blessed to have had Grandparents from said generation, they were people to truly respect an look up to an learn from. Thank you.
Seen this old girl a few times. They are aiming to get her airworthy. I really hope they do.
Had a ride in "Just Jane" for my fiftieth birthday in the cockpit behind the pilot , the short take of run felt absolutely exhilarating , a must do for any aviation enthusiast . My father in law was a Merlin engine mech & worked on the coastal command version carrying the ASR lifeboat .
My dad joined up in June 1940, aged 18. RAF ground gunner, then gunnery instructor, then aircrew- rear gunner on Liberators, Coastal Command flying out of RAF Aldergrove, N Ireland. Used to say very little about it except that most of the time he was scared. He wouldn't fly after the war, said he used all his luck up then.
2 week life expectance, what a brave people.
Think he's got mixed up with WW1, new pilots in April 1916. Sadly the loss rate of bomber crews was high, very few completed a 30 mission tour
Love the Lanc. My Grandmother worked on both Manchester's and Lancaster's at the Metrovicks factory at Trafford Park, Manchester.
Went there for my 40th birthday. Absolutely fabulous place, went in the Lanc myself. Please go and support them there. Wonderful day out, lots and lots to see.
There was a flying Lancaster in Northern Scotland in a private aircraft museum owned by a man named "Lord Strathallen " . This place was just outside of the town of Pirthshire Scotland . I've been there and seen it . The Lanc was purchased from a Canadian oil prospecting company and flown over to the UK in about 1980 .
My Grandpa was a Lancaster pilot at 21. I got to see the inside of one at an airshow when I was a kid.
Worked on this at east kirkby in January to March 2020 before leaving cause of covid
Discovery.... how about helping the Hawker Typhoon Preservation Trust to get RB396 back in the air? A bit of publicity, or better still, Bruce and the boys finding some bits for them!
Their Facebook page is great for history stuff such as mission records and losses; names, ranks and almost everything you could want.
what a beautiful plane!
Saw Bruce shopping at Halesworth Co Op last year....
@ 02:40 they were Typhoons on QRA. There are no F-16s in the UK.
For all that its great publicity for the brilliant people at East Kirby doing so much to restore the Lancaster. They also have a working Mosquito but sadly not to airworthy condition.
My grandad was a tail gunner in a Lancaster , on the way back from the mission they were set upon by me109’s he was shot up and had shrapnel in his leg, he absolutely loved the aircraft . Pity there aren’t more of them flying
As my dad said. "Flew all lover Europe. Backwards"
Shame the plane at 0.08 is a Halifax. Couldn't they find enough Lancaster footage ??
Common mistake.
It's television companies not doing their homework. There are worse cases on TV with German planes being shown in the footage as British or vice versa. I actually find it disrespectful to the men who where there be they British, American, German, Japanese or Russian.
It's just laziness.
I would love to watch the entire series but it is blocked behind a pay wall, thank you discovery:D it was free before hand :)
Bruce talks about lancasters at 0:08 but actually the editor shows a handley page halifax. Me: Wait, hold my beer.
I live in the area and often see BBMF flying over. So sorry to hear about the crash last weekend, my heart is with you all 😢. Love a day out at east kirby ,and watching Jane taxi is awesome, esp in the dark ❤. Bruce and his team are legends to 😂
Imagine being in a German town or possibly berlin and you hear a Lancaster above you and the sound of bombs dropping how would you react I would run away
F16, should of gone to Specsavers..
Bless him 😂😂😂😂
As should the editor, who reversed the cockpit shots during the start up!
i went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day. But i couldn't find any! Great restoration!
You can book a VIP Day here which includes a taxiing trip on the Lanc. Most definitely put this on your Bucket List. A unique, once In a lifetime experience.
I grew up in Windsor Canada we use to have a Lancaster that sat in Jackson Park as a memorial my father knew people that use to maintain it back in the day so i got to bugger around in it on occasion.I moved came back about 10 years later it was gone in its place was a Spit and Hurricane (not real) but apparently they're fixing her up to fly hopefully they do only been 20 years so far lol
FEBRUARY 2021 nice to see Bruce and Co helping Just Jane,, shame about the vintage footage, which shows two different bombers ie the Bliemham and the Halifax.
I just wish the researchers would check the footage first it let's down the end product.
A couple of years ago i flew in one. great experience, Those merlin engines are loud as heck
Bruce is just one of those people you believe is a old uncle you remember fondly as a friendly face spoiling the kids when he visited! Haha.
I think just Jane was stud outside the Wellington bomber factory in Blackpool for years. If you want to see something awesome then the poppy fields in Lincolnshire will knock your socks off when they are in full bloom
What a fantastic piece of engineering,,such a beautiful and powerful plane👍👍🇦🇺
Starts to rain just as soon as they get there. Got to love Great Britain :)
I live five minutes from the factory in Chadderton, Oldham, where many Lancaster's were built.
The 4 Engine Lancaster...8 seconds in... Halifax
My uncle Pat was a Lancaster rear gunner, I can't imagine how he did that, staying in that small bubble for hours in one of the deadliest positions on the plane to be assigned
Edit: uncle Pat is my mom's uncle but we all call him uncle Pat
I'll be glad when Quest TV put y'all show back on thanks cuz
I saw just Jayne last year. What a privilege, she’s absolutely beautiful, I would recommend anyone if they have the chance, go and see her. She’s an awesome sight and it really does hit home what those brave airmen did in ww2. Must of been terrifying flying over Germany being shot at , it must of been pretty terrifying for the Germans aswell, seeing hundreds of Lancaster’s above them about to drop their bombs.
The Lancaster shown had the replacement 2 .50 calibre machine guns in the rear turret which replaced the four .303 machine guns. The same modifications were also added to the Halifax's
Lancaster was a flying coffin. Plenty of space for bombs but no space for ventral gun turret which would have saved 100's of crews lives. Also a very difficult aircraft to escape from.
is there going to be more series of Combat Dealers ?
Awesome!
Ops ..Yanks flew missions. Bomber Command flew Operations. My father completed a tour of Ops with 90 sq. on Stirlings. He would always point that out to me. His brother was KIA when the 51 sq Halifax he was bomb aimer on was shot down on a raid to skoda iron works Pilsen.
Beatifull planes who flew a cargo of nice presents to the krauts ,love it!
B-29 // Lancastor
Built: 3,970 // 7,377
Cost: $1.3 million // $1 million
Crew: 11 // 7
Length: 99 ft // 69 ft
Wingspan: 141 ft // 102 ft
Empty Weight: 74,500 lb // 36,900 lb
Loaded Weight: 120,000 lb // 55,000 lb
Max Weight: 135,000 lb // 68,000 lb
Engines: 4 (8,800 hp total) // 4 (5,120 hp total)
Max speed: 357 mph // 282 mph
Cruise speed: 290 mph // 200 mph
Range: 3,250 miles // 2,530 miles
Ceiling: 31,850 ft // 21,400 ft
Climb rate: 900 ft/min // 720 ft/min
Armament: 10-12 x .50 cal guns // 8 x 7.62 mm guns
Ordinance: up to 22,000 lb internally // up to 14,000 internally
The B29 is the winner
Super lancaster
Just Jane is a beautiful Bomber just like her other two Sisters Thumper and Vera
PA474 is no longer “Thumper mkIII” the nose art and markings have changed, this happens every five or so years. It now carries the name “Leader”.
Excellent
I love this man and his team 👊👊👊👊👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
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Bruce Compton on thumbnails:
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0:57 legend that look could kill lol
An Avro Lancaster Mk1 of the 106 Sqn RAF crashed behind my house in a field on the 26th of July 1942 at 02:05 AM. The plane was shot down by an German Bf 109 from the Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 the Bf 109 had taken of from Leeuwarden air base to intercept the the Lancaster. Behind my house the Lancaster was hit by the BF 109 and exploded mid-air. Debris from the plane landed scattered around the fields behind my house and the remnants of the plane crashed into a black peat bog close to my house. Four out of the 7 crewman died, the other 3 who survived the crash got captured by the Germans but survived the war. Three of the 4 casualties are buried close to my house, the remnants of the 4th casualty were never found.
Sergeant (Flt. Engr.) Joseph John Cooper, 778188, RAF, 21 year
Sergeant (W.Op./Air Gnr.) Maurice John Dembrey, RAF, 26 year
Squadron Leader (Pilot) Francis Harold Robertson DFC, 42264, RAF, 27 year
May they rest in peace.
Registration of the Lancaster: R5748
Link: aviation-safety.net/wikibase/52674
I swear at 2:39 they were Typhoons not F16's
Was thinking the same
@Harold Amiss I know the RAF are no longer at Coningsby, they definitely don't have F16's though, check the RAF website if you like!
@Harold Amiss as far as I know it is due to close, it was in the news regarding where would the red arrows go. I agree it does have Typhoon QRA based there but no F16's unless my information is seriously faulty!
RAF Coningsby is very much alive and well and home to the Typhoon and BBMF. The RAF do not own F16s
@@Castlebank_Sidings Thanks Andy. I've just realised I was thinking of Scampton ! Too many RAF stations in that part of the country!
I would have thought these are the last people Andrew Panton wants to be near his Lancaster, let alone touch it!
*LOL! At **7:59** he picked up a broken model of the Focke-Wulf FW-226 'Flitzer' project aircraft*
I thought he was going to donate a HUGE amount of money!
At least he was out of the rain!
B-17 Flying Fortress is even more of a beast
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My grandfather was a mechanic on Lancaster’s for the RAF then later on for the RAAF then onto the Lancastrians later on ….
Nice shot of a Halifax dropping bombs at about 8 seconds in. Thought this was about Lancasters?
Which episode is this from?
Good ole Brucie
My Dad was a flight engineer in the Lancasters in WW2
F16s, oh Bruce mate🤔
Some people have all the luck
If you what to know what is was like get the book THE BOYS OF WAR it tells the story of an air Lancaster crew from start to finish and how some of them survived after being shot down it's a true story.
Wonderful aeroplane but shocking why the emergency egress couldn't have been improved.
Is Bruce's duck face posture important for the thumbnail...
Just jane's looking good
Yea it can carry more but good luck when ya get a fighter etc on ya gonna be hella hard to get him un like american bombers where they got loads of guns
Lancaster the sound of Freedom, Bomber county UK
There is 1 in Western Australia Bull creek avaition museam. That flew from Canada to Australia.
Sad to think the British never saved much from the war for museum's. 6000 plus aircraft an 17 remain. Wtf did they do to them.
What episode of Combat Dealers was this, and what season was it in?
The most recent series after Bruce's bad parachute landing. That's why he's lost weight and wears neoprene wrist supports. His trimmer waistline just shows how good hospital food is for overweight ex paras.
@@fus149hammer5 It’s a shame that happened to him. Which season and episode is this video though? I can’t find it when looking through the episodes and overviews. I can’t find somewhere to watch the full episodes too.
@hmalik Combat Dealers is on "Quest" in the UK. They don't seem to run in any particular order but the first ones after his accident are called "Combat Dealers Reloaded". They are just a rehash of previous shows with Bruce adding on screen links. Hope that helps.
@@fus149hammer5 Okay, thanks, which episode of Combat Dealers Reloaded is it? Is it the first episode? I can’t find somewhere to watch it online for free. Quest doesn’t have a website or an app.
@hmalik There isn't much about his accident in the series apart from some phone footage so if he's fat, bolshy and loud it's pre his bad landing. If he's slim, using a walking stick and less annoying it's post him headbutting the ground.
2:37 F-16s??? No no no those are Typhoons
Might get them the item but makes a profit..
Gramps skippered one for 114 sqn rcaf
It didn't take 6 months to train a bomber pilot during ww2, it took almost 2 years including almost 1 year in USA.....
6:48 music called
Course of History Igor Dvorkin
@@ralphthebulldog5163 Thank you
Fuel consumption: 200 gallons an hour
Compares a 4 engine heavy bomber to a 2 engine medium bomber. Wonder how the Lancaster stacked against the B17
1 of 17 Lancasters i live near one just 30 min drive
F16s haha typhoons
I wonder if it's a Canadian built Lancaster.
1:49 "by bombing factorys". Lol ever heard of moral bombing. And the brits mostly flew night missions where the target often wasnt hit that perfect...
Getting within 7 miles was accurate and I think 3 out of every 100 bombs got within 7 miles
@@alexcc8664 Problem was where the factorys were, there was the flak. That means the planes laying the Christmas trees, layed it like half a mile to early, because they didnt want to get right into the flak. Then the bombers dropped and yeah you can imagine. And Moral bombing was a tactic
@@Ko.Wi. there's was an interview with Sir Arthur Harris. He said factories were impossible to hit so when he took over he introduced Area bombing. The idea was to destroy cities so the factory workers had no homes. Yes it was a tactic but the factories were not the target under Harris, was just to cause as much destruction as possible.
I live in Lydd in kent if you go to Dungess with a metal detector loads of shrapnell world war 2 must be dog fights..
It had one major flaw how the hell do you escape when it’s going down? They had few survival chances when in a plane dropping like a brick when at the front trying to get to the back! The young boys who left home that never came back, who gave the ultimate sacrifice their lives for our freedoms! That today’s society in just coming 80years soon, don’t give these people the respect they deserve. Do not forget it wasn’t long a go, that every nation in Europe was in flames!
This guy is just a Spiv.
Old Brucie is looking a bit skinny is he ill?
Pity a real test would have been to find four Bristol Hercules engines for a mk. II.
Personally I thought the Stirling Short was a more attractive bomber, and not a single example exists now. Massive shame.
All the Stirlings rotted due to air crew peeing in the cockpit...
F16's hahahaha guy really doesn't know much does he haha
To be fair his glasses are the size of dustbin lids and they were quite far away 😂
Typhoons not f-16s
My Relative Wing Commander Mick Ensor DSO & Bar DFC & Bar & AFC RNZAF/RAF flew for Coastal Command shot down twice Sunk the first UBoat of ww2 3 confirmed 2 unconfirmed by the end of WW2 book written on him called Ensors Endevours by Vincent Orange
Mick Answered the call when England put the call out to the Commonwealth at the very start of the war for experienced pilots to go to England to help the war effort
he also flew in the Berlin airlift where he earned the Airforce Cross
You can't park there SIR..
Typhoons not F16,s !!!