My Grandfather was an engineer at a Lancaster factory near Manchester (metro vickers I think). Some Lancaster's flew back from Germany with the entire tail section shot off. They don't make them like that anymore.
It was a shame that the Lancaster didn't join the Hurricane and Spitfire at Capel Le Ferne yesterday :/ Ah well, I got to see it at RAF Conningsby last year - absolutely breathtaking plane.
@bigaussie68 i highly doubt that the people of germany who were ruled by the nazis thought of the lancaster raids as a way of freeing them from their enslavement. to them, it must have been like listening to the noise of death itself flying past, knowing that at any instant a bomb would be dropped that could flatten your house and kill your family. the bomber raids were indiscriminating, targeting and wiping out whole cities of innocent germans just as much as, if not more than, nazi strongholds
@heybuddyheybuddy You have obviously read too much revisionist history. Only after NATO was formed did the west make a consious effort to rehabilitate our opinion of the Germans. We needed the Germans (just as we needed the Japanese), so their evil deeds were shouldered by a few.
@cf80to01 NATO was formed after the war, to help the western resistance against the spread of communism in eastern europe. What exactly do you mean by "rehabilitating our opinion of the germans"? Do you mean that the viewpoint I am taking - which is that although the bomber raids helped greatly in the war effort against the nazis, they were unnecessarily indiscriminant - was only dreamed up after the war? Or are you referring to the allied appeasement of Hitler before the war? Please clarify.
@heybuddyheybuddy I am taking the viewpoint that the Allied bomber raids (and Brit/Cdn prior to 1942) were necessarily indiscriminate. Until 1944 there was no way to take the fight to Germany other than by air or by proxy. Was the bombing campaign misdirected? Certainly.... there were better targets later in the war when accuracy improved. The long and short of it is, the bombing slowed German production and kept 1,000,000 men away from the battlefield.
@cf80to01 i think that you are absolutely right. Whether wrong or not, area bombing was indeed the only way to counter the Nazis. The point that i am making, however, was intended to be more to do with the fact that even though it may have been seen as necessary through allied eyes, it was terribly destructive, and was a great waste of human life. I understand that the germans did it too, and that if britain had sent troops into europe instead, millions would have died,
@heybuddyheybuddy but i am merely thinking of it from the persective of the german civilians, as did the so-called bigaussie68, to whom my comment was originally intended. Put yourself in their shoes instead of those of 'Bomber' Harris or any other allied commander. Imagine that you were one of them. I think that it is the civilian side of things is the most revealing. Maybe it is revisionist, but is the social history of the losers not always swamped by the glory and propaganda of the victors?
@heybuddyheybuddy "Revisionist" is an academic euphemism for denial. Like for example suggesting that in ancient times those who were kept enslaved were ok with that because they "didn't know better". It's a second slap in the face of those who did resist, and died in many cases. I really hate that term.
My uncle was a tail end in a "flat-top" ( top turret removed for more altitude) Lanc in the final weeks of the war. One chilling tale he told was of a pointy wing tipped twin engined fighter hanging around below and astern for 15 minutes or more. He felt totally safe because how on was a fighter ever going to fire from that position! Clearly no one had lived to tell the tale of schrage muzik and Uncle Caradog was a very, very lucky boy.
Agreed amazing wonderful Aircraft.Not sure I fancy a nightime Op to the Ruhr with them pesky German nightfighters trying to kill me.The crews were brave indeed.
if you read about the bomber offensive.It is not all black and white.war never is.
My Mum lived through the War in Germany.Most Germans never expected to be at war with the British again.Hitler was Mad? but like in Iraq recently we are all tarred with the same brush if we mistakenly(in hindsight) invade another country.The Troops just do as they are ordered.Same old story eh?
Lancasters, unloaded, were reported as remarkably easy to take off, due to the 4 Merlin XX's (or Merlin 60's) and the massive wings creating a huge amount of lift
Certinly the best bomber the world has ever seen and ever will see. I just wish they brought all the old planes back and use them atleast for 3 days. But I know it won't ever happen <:( I'd say the best planes were build during the 1940's. I wish I was a pilot back then, hearing the roar of the props. I'd say re-live the past for atleast 3 days. I hope the goverment sees this comment, if so please for atleast bring back everything during the 1940's, planes, tv, cars, everything!
@gaktkr The torys would be happy to bring back the nazis by the look of it.They'll be happy to bring back rationing for the many ,but not for the few.
by far the best bomber bar none of ww2 including the slow and small bomb load b17. i had the great fortune of working at duxford iwm, near cambridge and on 2 occasions was asked by dennis the old vet who kept the radio in working order in the static model there would i like to climb aboured my god is the pope a cathlic i couldnt get aboured quick enough sat in all position a boyhood dream come true.
My late father was a Flight Leftenant Lanc pilot during the war, flew over Germany over 20 times, i grew up admirring the Lancaster. To see one flying is just majestic, they are beautiful planes.
Respect to all those brave men who died during the battle of Britain.
Good old Bomber Harris and Sir Winston Churchill.
@TONYNASRI The sound of hundreds of Lancs passing overhead at night must have been the sweet sound of freedom to those people living under the Nazi jackboot. Almost like they were saying "we're coming to get you, to free you and rain hellfire upon those who enslave you"
@skorpionhbg and I guess 11 million people liked the smell of Zyklon B in their nostrils before they died a horrible death. And the people of Czechslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Greece and France loved the sound of the Nazi jackboots marching through their streets too. Sorry but your pathetic attempt at moral equivalency rings hollow here.
The most brutal occupied Nazi countries were Poland (the highest percantage of dead of all countries in the war), the USSR (all the republics in it) where the locals were rounded up and shot in their hundreds for every German soldier died by partisan activity, former Yugoslavia (in which local fascist puppet rulers made even German nazi officers complain about their brutal methods, like smashing skulls in with huge mallets a Croatian fascist "speciality").
Vichy-France wasn't even occupied by the Nazis, but ruled by the nazi friendly field Marshall Petain. This part of France saw the Nazis as heroes who liberated France from jews, communists and other "enemies of the French people". Ever heard of the SS Charlemagne? A French SS division. There were plenty off SS divisions formed in occupied countries of Europe and some even from "neutral" countries like Spain and Switzerland.
Well, for the slave labour the nazis used in their factories, producing weapons and other equipment for the German Wehrmacht, being bombed by the allies hardly brough them freedom.
The jews were exterminated in death camps whereas millions of non-jew workers worked to death in nazi controlled factories all over Europe.
After the war many jews wonder why the Allied bombers conventiently "missed" all the death camps.
No disrespect to the allies flight crews though. Great fellas.
@McLarenMercedes David Ben-Gurion considered asking the Allies to bomb the death camps. He decided it was simply obscene to order Allied bomber crews to risk their lives doing Hitler's dirty work for him. The Allies had already considered the matter and reached the same conclusion.
That must have been a awesome moment to see one of those old warbird up in the sky... to bad there aren't many Lancasters left that are in flying... I would love to see one and hear those 4 Merlin engines in action!
Yeah, you're right. One in England, one in Canada.
But on the day dad met the pilot, he said that the English one was the only one flying at that time. The Canadian one has been grounded... something to do with a propeller blade, I think? Can't remember exactly.
My dad works at an airport in Wimborne or thereabouts... and today, a Lancaster landed there. He asked the pilot, and the pilot said that it was indeed the last flying one.
Man, he got to go inside it, and in all the turrets, and everything. I was infinitely jealous when he told me about it when he got home.
Coincidentally, I saw that same Lancaster flying over during the day after it had left dad's work!
It was an honour seeing the last flying Lanc sailing through the air :)
In fact, the one that dad experienced was bought by his company - Flight Refuelling Limited - in the sixties. They were going to drone it and use it as a target...!
Seems unthinkable, but in the sixties she would have been twenty years or so old, so it didn't really matter then. Thank god they didn't! xD
There's full info on it in Wikipedia. Search "Avro Lancaster PA474". Apparently it was in the films Operation Crossbow and Gun of Navarone as well :P
My kids and I went up into the Lancaster here in Edmonton. What an amazing experience. My grandpa was an Aero Engine Mechanic situated in Croft. He worked on the Lancasters. Thanks for the video. I love hearing those engines!
The Lancaster from Ontario landed at the Edmonton City Centre Airport tonight. It will take part in the Airshow at the Cold Lake Air Force Base this weekend. It was a lovely sight landing at the old Muni tonight.
There was an world war 2 millitary afair at heckmondwike last summer at ponderosa with ww2 tanks ECT...I did'nt go but everybody was dressed in ww2 clothing military and otherwise the star of the show was a lancaster bommer wich circled the town.....I was driving the car at the time and it flew over our heads...It must have been the same bommer as this one..
There are 2 airworthy lancs,bbmf and the Canadian warplane heritage with the Lincs aviation heritage NX611 in ground /taxi condition.There are several lancs in australia and canada.7377 were built,over 5000 were lost during ww2,over 30,000 aircrew were lost.
The one in Canada is at the Warplane Museum in Hamilton. When I was there, the Lanc was out on the tarmac being serviced. As I stood there, they fired up one of the engines. The hair on my neck stood up. When I worked in downtown Toronto, you could count on a flyover in the days before the annual air show. Nothing sounds like a Merlin, it's Beethoven in metal.
Canada Warplane Heritage Museum has a Flying example as well, it is based out of Hamilton Ont. It will be flying in for the airshow at CFB Trenton in June
It was on the tarmac for the show, they said there was a technical problem with the plane, I was in line to get a look inside but after 20 min I said the hell with it. Nice looking plane though.
the british bomber atack in the nigth "halifax , lancaster, mosquito" and the norteamerican bomber atack in the day 2B 25, B 24, B 26, B 17" THE RAID BOMBER IS AMAZIG 200 TO 400 AIRCRAFT
I don't know about you, but the sound and sight of that always brings up the hairs on the back of my neck and I was born 12 years after the war finished. Beautiful.
comment continued: My kids - who are 1/2 pacifist German - couldn't believe it. I just told them "this happens all the time here". And Lo! On the way to Lincoln next day, just before Scampton, the Red Arrows gave us their full repertoire in training. What a great county Lincolnshire is for RAF activity!
You won't believe this, but a few years ago I was just comming out of Safeway in Scunthorpe and the RAF Lancaster City of Lincoln flew past at rooftop height yawing from side to side past the royal Hotel. I should have expected it becuase a Spitfire and Hurricane had flown down Oswald Road!
One friend of the family was a Wellington bomber pilot, another friend was a spitfire pilot. A former landlord when I was at University was a tailgunner for the Dambusters. The tales I've heard covered the heroic to the desperate to the tragic. I respect them all. As for Guernsey, I know it well. I nearly knew it close-up well, as in plastered over the landscape, as in finding a WW2 UXB when beachcombing. Guernsey was never bombed, so it was likely misplaced in transit by a drunk German.
i'm half german, half english, one grandfather flew in bomber command, the other was in the german army fighting the russians, i can remember them nearly ripping each other apart at my cousins christening,
My great uncle was a Piolot officer in the R.A.F and flew the lancaster bomber but a few weeks/months b4 the War ended he was Shot down over Nazi Ocupied France He served from 1939-1945. R.I.P
Haven't learned a bit from that great big stupid lesson WWII was, have you, buster? Guernica (I know, just before, but as bad!), Warszawa,Antwerpen,Coventry,London,Hamburg,
Köln,Dresden,Tokyo,Hiroshima... Imagine all those deaths,for what? For the Commonwealth losing its leading role in the world? For U.S. markets getting flooded with Japanese and German products? Seems the "Victors" haven't really "won". I love to hear the sound of a war-time piston engine, but not under your pretext...
My grandfather went AWOL in Africa in the 2nd world war after being shot in the arm, and got an unofficial "lift home" on one of these. He was court martalled and deranked for it, but said it was worth it. Awesome plane.
Ha ha he was 100 times the man you will ever be. But then I suppose you think trolling around a mediocre website looking for people to abuse, makes you a man. You're a real wild keyboard worrier aren't you little man.
Was 7 years all you could manage? A few year in Afghanistan and a couple in Iraq? What's the matter couldn't you handle the pressure?? Let me guess you never thought you'd see a proper war hey - get a shock did you when we invaded Iraq? Pussy!!!
I not a drone like you - I'm not willing to sacrifice my life for a cause that is fabricated around the basis of oil. If you want to spend your days fighting for something that makes no sense then go ahead. I spent 15 years in the forces and spent time in Gib, Germany, and Iraq. But I realised the fight was for something that made no sense. Unlike you I didn't join the army to make a quick buck.
If you do some very basic thinking, you will see that I joined the army BEFORE the wars, and I didn't join for a quick buck either as you put it, my Great grandfather, my grandfather, my father, and myself have all served in the army, and my son has just been accepted into Sandhurst, it's a family tradition.
Looks like SODIRAQ is right - you joined the army expecting an easy ride and then when the wars started, did a runner. So you and your forefathers are all mindless drones who will attack, shoot and bomb inoccent people. Well done you - you are SO brave! Mwaa xx
Actually Sodiraq is right. And he went back once it had healed. As for you Josey, well, plenty of other squadies manage to have families and still serve. I think you're just a bit scared. Either way I cant be bothered to argue with you anymore, you're quite pathetic.
This is the BBMF Lancaster in the UK!! READ the postscript!!
There are TWO (2)flying Lancasters in the world. The one you are thinking of is in Canada like the man said! Nothing to do with history - Just bloody google it old man.
No no no !! this aircraft and build by avrocanada , in Canada ( Ontario ). Many pilot of RAF was trained i ncanada because England was in intense bomb attack from V-1 and V-2 so england had no time for made food,ammo,weapon ect. So canada create weapon with Avro-canada like the Hurricain with the first female who work on aerospcial , called the " The queen of hurricaine " learn your history man , so why canada cliam we create the Dam bomb and lancaster and why they have only Lancaster on Musueum
Yes there are only 2 airworthy Lancasters in the world. One a B Mk.1 (PA474) at R.A.F Conningsby but the other is a B Mk.X (FM213) and is operated by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Canada. There are a couple more Lancasters in the U.K that regularly perform engine runs, but lack the funds to make and keep them airworthy.
such a beautiful plane, i recently saw g for george in canberra, australian war memorial. The most famous lancaster ever that flew 90 raids and came back every time shows you what a plane it is, just wish i had a chance to fly in it like the men that died to protect our countries those years ago.
anyone out there got any info re..Lancaster Bomber, serial number N4107 of 49 Sqn RAF,crashed Sark, Channel Islands 22/23 Nov 1942, after returning damaged from a mission over Stuttgart..everyone baled out and the aircraft was crash landed by a Sargeant E J Singleton...the serial no, may be wrong.i cant find any info anywhere.
The best piston bomber ever flown by people all over the world. Bt 1945, nearly 25% of Bomber crews were Canadain, mainly due to the death of 40,000 British crewman over Europe.
I've been in one. Not as sleek as the b-17 but it had a pretty damn big bomb bay.
Trashcansam123 2 months ago
My Grandfather was an engineer at a Lancaster factory near Manchester (metro vickers I think). Some Lancaster's flew back from Germany with the entire tail section shot off. They don't make them like that anymore.
vk3dgn 5 months ago
Lancaster <3
TalonMercenary 5 months ago
Definite goosebumps! Beautiful machine.
1982stik 6 months ago
So, who's got goosebumps now! lol
bithot2nite 6 months ago
My Granddad new a reir gunner of this Beast.
TheFoxter69 6 months ago
Just hearing the low loud drone of that engine gives me goosebumps! An amazing machine!!
thechapster1981 6 months ago
It was a shame that the Lancaster didn't join the Hurricane and Spitfire at Capel Le Ferne yesterday :/ Ah well, I got to see it at RAF Conningsby last year - absolutely breathtaking plane.
SSofficeface 7 months ago
ive touched and slep under one of these planes and it was working guess how many are working the awnser is 2
17zoomman 8 months ago
7 people are German
PeaceReleaseMe 9 months ago
Them Merlins sounds awsome!
neilo86 10 months ago
I don't see how people could have pressed the dislike button for this video. What is not to like about that plane and that noise!
muserock2367 10 months ago
that engine gives me chills down the spine
12FAbBOY 10 months ago
@12FAbBOY yep. Goosebumps all over :)
muserock2367 10 months ago
@bigaussie68 i highly doubt that the people of germany who were ruled by the nazis thought of the lancaster raids as a way of freeing them from their enslavement. to them, it must have been like listening to the noise of death itself flying past, knowing that at any instant a bomb would be dropped that could flatten your house and kill your family. the bomber raids were indiscriminating, targeting and wiping out whole cities of innocent germans just as much as, if not more than, nazi strongholds
heybuddyheybuddy 10 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy I think he means the Dutch and Belgians.
xlmp96 10 months ago
@xlmp96 ah right :) great sound anyway
heybuddyheybuddy 9 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy You have obviously read too much revisionist history. Only after NATO was formed did the west make a consious effort to rehabilitate our opinion of the Germans. We needed the Germans (just as we needed the Japanese), so their evil deeds were shouldered by a few.
cf80to01 9 months ago
@cf80to01 NATO was formed after the war, to help the western resistance against the spread of communism in eastern europe. What exactly do you mean by "rehabilitating our opinion of the germans"? Do you mean that the viewpoint I am taking - which is that although the bomber raids helped greatly in the war effort against the nazis, they were unnecessarily indiscriminant - was only dreamed up after the war? Or are you referring to the allied appeasement of Hitler before the war? Please clarify.
heybuddyheybuddy 9 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy I am taking the viewpoint that the Allied bomber raids (and Brit/Cdn prior to 1942) were necessarily indiscriminate. Until 1944 there was no way to take the fight to Germany other than by air or by proxy. Was the bombing campaign misdirected? Certainly.... there were better targets later in the war when accuracy improved. The long and short of it is, the bombing slowed German production and kept 1,000,000 men away from the battlefield.
cf80to01 9 months ago
@cf80to01 i think that you are absolutely right. Whether wrong or not, area bombing was indeed the only way to counter the Nazis. The point that i am making, however, was intended to be more to do with the fact that even though it may have been seen as necessary through allied eyes, it was terribly destructive, and was a great waste of human life. I understand that the germans did it too, and that if britain had sent troops into europe instead, millions would have died,
heybuddyheybuddy 8 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy but i am merely thinking of it from the persective of the german civilians, as did the so-called bigaussie68, to whom my comment was originally intended. Put yourself in their shoes instead of those of 'Bomber' Harris or any other allied commander. Imagine that you were one of them. I think that it is the civilian side of things is the most revealing. Maybe it is revisionist, but is the social history of the losers not always swamped by the glory and propaganda of the victors?
heybuddyheybuddy 8 months ago
@heybuddyheybuddy "Revisionist" is an academic euphemism for denial. Like for example suggesting that in ancient times those who were kept enslaved were ok with that because they "didn't know better". It's a second slap in the face of those who did resist, and died in many cases. I really hate that term.
voxhunden 2 months ago
That's the noise that VICTORY makes when it goes by!
sthill1993 11 months ago
will it work?
greenmantis99 11 months ago
this reminds me of a book i read called "b for buster" great book
iAirsoft69 1 year ago
That`s just such a great sound.
wintysarnian 1 year ago
wow! only one of two left flying now-very sad-other one privately owned in Canada i believe
darkmossie633 1 year ago
a clay chicken flew this old crate against jerry. chicken run i believe.
datzfast 1 year ago
What was once a machine of death and distruction is now a creation of beauity! I love the sounds of those engines!
clam502 1 year ago
My uncle was a tail end in a "flat-top" ( top turret removed for more altitude) Lanc in the final weeks of the war. One chilling tale he told was of a pointy wing tipped twin engined fighter hanging around below and astern for 15 minutes or more. He felt totally safe because how on was a fighter ever going to fire from that position! Clearly no one had lived to tell the tale of schrage muzik and Uncle Caradog was a very, very lucky boy.
MrMoel1 1 year ago
The videos don't do it justice. If you've never seen one in person, they're frigging huge.
tag7100 1 year ago 2
Wow, that plane is loud enough on its own but could u imagine hundreds of those things flying over during WW2? well there not good for stealth.
TheHyperkid97 1 year ago 3
cool i live in guernsey lol
ass23ful 1 year ago
I just saw on of these planes at the london museum. What a stunning/important plane!
iTalented 1 year ago
saw & heard one of these yesterday at Republic Airport yesterday on Long island, NY .. nice..
john383400 1 year ago
so many were shot down during the night bombing raid,
and if u happened to parachute,dont expect mercy.
hlimkb 1 year ago
fuck butcher Harris and his murder drones!!!
germaniajim 1 year ago
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siypic 1 year ago
@germaniajim Hahahahahaha...... you people started the bombing war on civilians. not us.If you cant take it dont give it!
Saxonsoldiers 1 year ago
Agreed amazing wonderful Aircraft.Not sure I fancy a nightime Op to the Ruhr with them pesky German nightfighters trying to kill me.The crews were brave indeed.
if you read about the bomber offensive.It is not all black and white.war never is.
mikehoppett 1 year ago 2
My Mum lived through the War in Germany.Most Germans never expected to be at war with the British again.Hitler was Mad? but like in Iraq recently we are all tarred with the same brush if we mistakenly(in hindsight) invade another country.The Troops just do as they are ordered.Same old story eh?
mikehoppett 1 year ago 3
@mikehoppett i totally agree.
tubbymarshall 1 year ago
@mikehoppett If tony Blair can get away with it . why not hitler? under a military dictatorship,with no press freedom.
jrobertsoneff 1 year ago
@jrobertsoneff so you're saying blair is like hitler?
ampthilluk 1 year ago
@ampthilluk Cameron is more like hitler ,with his nazi friends.
jrobertsoneff 1 year ago
@jrobertsoneff lol
ampthilluk 1 year ago
some of them old ww2 planes just sound unbelievable
FifaFreestyle 1 year ago
i just wish i had been alive back in the war to admire these beautyful planes the lancaster, spitfire, hurricane ect all amazing planes.
ajom010k 1 year ago
This huge and heavy plane takes off from that small Guernsey airport..?!
Latvietis96 1 year ago
Lancasters, unloaded, were reported as remarkably easy to take off, due to the 4 Merlin XX's (or Merlin 60's) and the massive wings creating a huge amount of lift
PhinfanUK 1 year ago
Certinly the best bomber the world has ever seen and ever will see. I just wish they brought all the old planes back and use them atleast for 3 days. But I know it won't ever happen <:( I'd say the best planes were build during the 1940's. I wish I was a pilot back then, hearing the roar of the props. I'd say re-live the past for atleast 3 days. I hope the goverment sees this comment, if so please for atleast bring back everything during the 1940's, planes, tv, cars, everything!
gaktkr 1 year ago 3
@gaktkr The torys would be happy to bring back the nazis by the look of it.They'll be happy to bring back rationing for the many ,but not for the few.
jrobertsoneff 1 year ago
by far the best bomber bar none of ww2 including the slow and small bomb load b17. i had the great fortune of working at duxford iwm, near cambridge and on 2 occasions was asked by dennis the old vet who kept the radio in working order in the static model there would i like to climb aboured my god is the pope a cathlic i couldnt get aboured quick enough sat in all position a boyhood dream come true.
tc030564 1 year ago
by far the best bomber bar none of ww2 including the slow and small bomb load b17.
tc030564 1 year ago
My late father was a Flight Leftenant Lanc pilot during the war, flew over Germany over 20 times, i grew up admirring the Lancaster. To see one flying is just majestic, they are beautiful planes.
Respect to all those brave men who died during the battle of Britain.
Good old Bomber Harris and Sir Winston Churchill.
Rule Brittania,.
We avenge.
TONYNASRI 2 years ago 49
@TONYNASRI The sound of hundreds of Lancs passing overhead at night must have been the sweet sound of freedom to those people living under the Nazi jackboot. Almost like they were saying "we're coming to get you, to free you and rain hellfire upon those who enslave you"
bigaussie68 2 years ago 33
@bigaussie68 - such a wonderful comment, sir i salute you.
Tony.
TONYNASRI 2 years ago
@bigaussie68 More like "Were gonna drop bombs on your city, i hope you built an air raid shelter so we can liberate you.
Mufffinman800 1 year ago
@Mufffinman800 Bomber Command didn't attack the major civilian centres of the occupied countries
bigaussie68 1 year ago
@bigaussie68 yeah i guess 40000 people liked to hear them engines in dresden
u stupd fuck
skorpionhbg 1 year ago
@skorpionhbg Guess what??? You reap what you sow.
bigaussie68 1 year ago
@bigaussie68
no worrys we will be back
skorpionhbg 1 year ago
@skorpionhbg and I guess 11 million people liked the smell of Zyklon B in their nostrils before they died a horrible death. And the people of Czechslovakia, Poland, Norway, Holland, Greece and France loved the sound of the Nazi jackboots marching through their streets too. Sorry but your pathetic attempt at moral equivalency rings hollow here.
bigaussie68 1 year ago
@bigaussie68
The most brutal occupied Nazi countries were Poland (the highest percantage of dead of all countries in the war), the USSR (all the republics in it) where the locals were rounded up and shot in their hundreds for every German soldier died by partisan activity, former Yugoslavia (in which local fascist puppet rulers made even German nazi officers complain about their brutal methods, like smashing skulls in with huge mallets a Croatian fascist "speciality").
Norway was "peaceful".
McLarenMercedes 11 months ago
@bigaussie68
Vichy-France wasn't even occupied by the Nazis, but ruled by the nazi friendly field Marshall Petain. This part of France saw the Nazis as heroes who liberated France from jews, communists and other "enemies of the French people". Ever heard of the SS Charlemagne? A French SS division. There were plenty off SS divisions formed in occupied countries of Europe and some even from "neutral" countries like Spain and Switzerland.
The German nazis were hardly "alone".
McLarenMercedes 11 months ago
@bigaussie68
Well, for the slave labour the nazis used in their factories, producing weapons and other equipment for the German Wehrmacht, being bombed by the allies hardly brough them freedom.
The jews were exterminated in death camps whereas millions of non-jew workers worked to death in nazi controlled factories all over Europe.
After the war many jews wonder why the Allied bombers conventiently "missed" all the death camps.
No disrespect to the allies flight crews though. Great fellas.
McLarenMercedes 11 months ago
@McLarenMercedes David Ben-Gurion considered asking the Allies to bomb the death camps. He decided it was simply obscene to order Allied bomber crews to risk their lives doing Hitler's dirty work for him. The Allies had already considered the matter and reached the same conclusion.
TheMarkXIV 10 months ago
@TONYNASRI a great pity there are only 2 of these great aeroplanes still flying
darkmossie633 1 year ago
That must have been a awesome moment to see one of those old warbird up in the sky... to bad there aren't many Lancasters left that are in flying... I would love to see one and hear those 4 Merlin engines in action!
W0mpa 2 years ago 3
Great footage, what a great sound:)
Other Lancaster fans might like a look at lancaster-lm658 co uk for the story on one Lancaster from 100sqdn and the fate of her crew
thermaz2 2 years ago 2
My Father flew a Lancaster in WW11 there is a video taken of him and the crew
I would love to see it. he said he And the guys were all standing under the nose and they were asking there names and
Dad said he enterd the RAF through the RCAF(Canada).
keefer2111 2 years ago
yeh and it was a riat!!
nice filming btw
PsycoSam2k9 2 years ago
theres only one in england
5T4NN1 2 years ago
Yeah, you're right. One in England, one in Canada.
But on the day dad met the pilot, he said that the English one was the only one flying at that time. The Canadian one has been grounded... something to do with a propeller blade, I think? Can't remember exactly.
EJRocky 2 years ago
My dad works at an airport in Wimborne or thereabouts... and today, a Lancaster landed there. He asked the pilot, and the pilot said that it was indeed the last flying one.
Man, he got to go inside it, and in all the turrets, and everything. I was infinitely jealous when he told me about it when he got home.
Coincidentally, I saw that same Lancaster flying over during the day after it had left dad's work!
It was an honour seeing the last flying Lanc sailing through the air :)
EJRocky 2 years ago
Theres about 200 still flyable
5T4NN1 2 years ago
Rocky,,,your dad is one lucky dog!
and to think they cut up those birsd to make coffee pots.
keefer2111 2 years ago
Yeah, man. It's pretty unfortunate.
In fact, the one that dad experienced was bought by his company - Flight Refuelling Limited - in the sixties. They were going to drone it and use it as a target...!
Seems unthinkable, but in the sixties she would have been twenty years or so old, so it didn't really matter then. Thank god they didn't! xD
There's full info on it in Wikipedia. Search "Avro Lancaster PA474". Apparently it was in the films Operation Crossbow and Gun of Navarone as well :P
EJRocky 2 years ago
My kids and I went up into the Lancaster here in Edmonton. What an amazing experience. My grandpa was an Aero Engine Mechanic situated in Croft. He worked on the Lancasters. Thanks for the video. I love hearing those engines!
clarksoup8 2 years ago
The Lancaster from Ontario landed at the Edmonton City Centre Airport tonight. It will take part in the Airshow at the Cold Lake Air Force Base this weekend. It was a lovely sight landing at the old Muni tonight.
kneedeep56 2 years ago
Is this the only flying example...
nidgybaby 2 years ago
There are only two surviving lancasters left in the world one in UK duxford. and one in canada. just under 8000 were built.
happymana 2 years ago
There was an world war 2 millitary afair at heckmondwike last summer at ponderosa with ww2 tanks ECT...I did'nt go but everybody was dressed in ww2 clothing military and otherwise the star of the show was a lancaster bommer wich circled the town.....I was driving the car at the time and it flew over our heads...It must have been the same bommer as this one..
nidgybaby 2 years ago
Yes it would have been.. It's always a busy plane doing airshows and fly byes. it did your one recently 65th at Normandy.
happymana 2 years ago
thanks...
nidgybaby 2 years ago
There are 2 airworthy lancs,bbmf and the Canadian warplane heritage with the Lincs aviation heritage NX611 in ground /taxi condition.There are several lancs in australia and canada.7377 were built,over 5000 were lost during ww2,over 30,000 aircrew were lost.
coalshovle 2 years ago
The one in Canada is at the Warplane Museum in Hamilton. When I was there, the Lanc was out on the tarmac being serviced. As I stood there, they fired up one of the engines. The hair on my neck stood up. When I worked in downtown Toronto, you could count on a flyover in the days before the annual air show. Nothing sounds like a Merlin, it's Beethoven in metal.
radiopirate3 2 years ago
Imagine what it must have sounded like flying over and carpet bombing Berlin! WOOOOOO!!
steveo1983 2 years ago 3
Currntly yes as the canadian lanc is grounded with corrosion in some propeller blades.
coalshovle 2 years ago
It's back up now.
tacfvideo 2 years ago
Canada Warplane Heritage Museum has a Flying example as well, it is based out of Hamilton Ont. It will be flying in for the airshow at CFB Trenton in June
denmalski 2 years ago
It never showed up on Sunday I saw it coming in on Friday and saw it flying around on Saturday but I didn't see it participating in the airshow
hundanth 2 years ago
It was on the tarmac for the show, they said there was a technical problem with the plane, I was in line to get a look inside but after 20 min I said the hell with it. Nice looking plane though.
denmalski 2 years ago
the british bomber atack in the nigth "halifax , lancaster, mosquito" and the norteamerican bomber atack in the day 2B 25, B 24, B 26, B 17" THE RAID BOMBER IS AMAZIG 200 TO 400 AIRCRAFT
Olmecru 2 years ago
This plane is a legend - and deservedly so.
MSM4U2POM 2 years ago 2
I don't know about you, but the sound and sight of that always brings up the hairs on the back of my neck and I was born 12 years after the war finished. Beautiful.
nutty1957 2 years ago
WOW!
bellbalace 3 years ago
Beautiful aeroplane.
james331933 3 years ago
4 x1 merlin. speedfire
93team93 3 years ago
Awesome sight :)
rallycameraction1 3 years ago
Beautiful aeroplane.
PominAfrica 3 years ago
takes off from guernsey? MooOOOoo!
Relax lads, this mission is going to be a milk run.
orcstr8d 3 years ago
You're right about Lincs and planes, I lived close by in S Yorks -the Vulcan Bombers came over so low you thought you could touch them.
eshewerethin 3 years ago
WOW Listen to the power of that thing. Now imagine 400 of those flying over your house. That was what it was like in WW2.
CAPJasonG 3 years ago
Totally. hearing 4 RR Merlins does it for me at a airshow, hearing 1600 of the things would be simply amazing.
Hennersbass 3 years ago 3
Awesome! My Wifes Uncle helped re-wire the other Lanc in Canada. Its pretty amazing , as well.
BreathDoctor 3 years ago 2
comment continued: My kids - who are 1/2 pacifist German - couldn't believe it. I just told them "this happens all the time here". And Lo! On the way to Lincoln next day, just before Scampton, the Red Arrows gave us their full repertoire in training. What a great county Lincolnshire is for RAF activity!
jonnybottle 3 years ago
I live in Newark and 2 years ago (i think) iheard the noise comming and went outside.
It flew over about 800ft and it did a figure of 8 and came back.
All the kids were shouting "Hooray".What a racket,but a great feeling.
354sd 3 years ago
You won't believe this, but a few years ago I was just comming out of Safeway in Scunthorpe and the RAF Lancaster City of Lincoln flew past at rooftop height yawing from side to side past the royal Hotel. I should have expected it becuase a Spitfire and Hurricane had flown down Oswald Road!
jonnybottle 3 years ago
aaaaah.....amazing =)
IIoOoooOoII 3 years ago
Amazing machine. a true testament to english engineering.
Hennersbass 3 years ago
Great little video, nice touch with the airbander.
5* from me.
Hanglands 3 years ago
One friend of the family was a Wellington bomber pilot, another friend was a spitfire pilot. A former landlord when I was at University was a tailgunner for the Dambusters. The tales I've heard covered the heroic to the desperate to the tragic. I respect them all. As for Guernsey, I know it well. I nearly knew it close-up well, as in plastered over the landscape, as in finding a WW2 UXB when beachcombing. Guernsey was never bombed, so it was likely misplaced in transit by a drunk German.
2206411411 3 years ago
Just imagine one of these buzzing ones house in the dead of night...might rattle a few windowpanes.
oldtilter 3 years ago
i'm half german, half english, one grandfather flew in bomber command, the other was in the german army fighting the russians, i can remember them nearly ripping each other apart at my cousins christening,
bigchiefmingingbolok 3 years ago 5
Obviously the English won
adamskiyo 3 years ago
i remeber when that thing going over my house a couple of years ago FUCK ME IT WAS GREAT
trunksss5 3 years ago 2
My great uncle was a Piolot officer in the R.A.F and flew the lancaster bomber but a few weeks/months b4 the War ended he was Shot down over Nazi Ocupied France He served from 1939-1945. R.I.P
lHoodlum 3 years ago 3
Beautiful...
DigbyCat 3 years ago
Great video.
Hanglands 3 years ago 2
imagine 1000 of these over dresden ....
eat that jerry!
thecourierman 3 years ago
thats 4000 merlins awesome orchestra
ketd9 3 years ago
Haven't learned a bit from that great big stupid lesson WWII was, have you, buster? Guernica (I know, just before, but as bad!), Warszawa,Antwerpen,Coventry,London,Hamburg,
Köln,Dresden,Tokyo,Hiroshima... Imagine all those deaths,for what? For the Commonwealth losing its leading role in the world? For U.S. markets getting flooded with Japanese and German products? Seems the "Victors" haven't really "won". I love to hear the sound of a war-time piston engine, but not under your pretext...
Bearkiller72 3 years ago
My grandfather went AWOL in Africa in the 2nd world war after being shot in the arm, and got an unofficial "lift home" on one of these. He was court martalled and deranked for it, but said it was worth it. Awesome plane.
jacobsdaduk 3 years ago
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Your grandfather was a fucking coward and should have been shot for desertion. I hope he is dead now, so he can rot in hell.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Ha ha he was 100 times the man you will ever be. But then I suppose you think trolling around a mediocre website looking for people to abuse, makes you a man. You're a real wild keyboard worrier aren't you little man.
jacobsdaduk 3 years ago
No, he really wasn't.
Cpl Josey London, 2nd Bn Royal Anglian Regiment, from 1999 - 2006.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Was 7 years all you could manage? A few year in Afghanistan and a couple in Iraq? What's the matter couldn't you handle the pressure?? Let me guess you never thought you'd see a proper war hey - get a shock did you when we invaded Iraq? Pussy!!!
sodiraq 3 years ago
I did three tours in Iraq, two in afghanistan, what about you? What service did you risk your life for? I'm guessing none, making YOU the pussy.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
I not a drone like you - I'm not willing to sacrifice my life for a cause that is fabricated around the basis of oil. If you want to spend your days fighting for something that makes no sense then go ahead. I spent 15 years in the forces and spent time in Gib, Germany, and Iraq. But I realised the fight was for something that made no sense. Unlike you I didn't join the army to make a quick buck.
sodiraq 3 years ago
If you do some very basic thinking, you will see that I joined the army BEFORE the wars, and I didn't join for a quick buck either as you put it, my Great grandfather, my grandfather, my father, and myself have all served in the army, and my son has just been accepted into Sandhurst, it's a family tradition.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago 3
Looks like SODIRAQ is right - you joined the army expecting an easy ride and then when the wars started, did a runner. So you and your forefathers are all mindless drones who will attack, shoot and bomb inoccent people. Well done you - you are SO brave! Mwaa xx
jacobsdaduk 3 years ago
I reached the end of my service, and, because I was starting a family, I didn't want it to be distrupted. Thanks for your support!
JoseyLondon 3 years ago 2
A family tradition? Who are you Prince Charles?! If your idea of family tradition is shooting people you can keep it to yourself.
sodiraq 3 years ago
No, my family has honor and pride for the country we live in, unlike your family, who ran away from the conflict when he was needed most.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago 2
what when he'd been wounded in battle and they were threatening to cut his arm off?? I don't think so pal!
jacobsdaduk 3 years ago
And? So what? He ran away, he was a coward and should have been shot as one.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Na, you're just a pussy. I bet you were one of the troops crying because "fighting is against my human rights".
jacobsdaduk 3 years ago
No, I am not a pussy, unlike your grandfather who lost face and pissed off.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
I think his grandfather had a hole in his arm caused by a bullet. What's your excuse 'hero'?!
sodiraq 3 years ago
Trying to raise a family is hard when you are darting accross the planet, so I did not extend my service.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
Actually Sodiraq is right. And he went back once it had healed. As for you Josey, well, plenty of other squadies manage to have families and still serve. I think you're just a bit scared. Either way I cant be bothered to argue with you anymore, you're quite pathetic.
jacobsdaduk 3 years ago
I really couldn't give a shit about what you think to be honest, you can think what you like, but you are, and always will be a cunt.
JoseyLondon 3 years ago
If you say so keyboard warrior!
jacobsdaduk 3 years ago
oo i love em.
along with the spitfire, i love ww2 planes.
andyg3 3 years ago
This is the BBMF Lancaster in the UK!! READ the postscript!!
There are TWO (2)flying Lancasters in the world. The one you are thinking of is in Canada like the man said! Nothing to do with history - Just bloody google it old man.
rwarreng 3 years ago
Beautiful canadian aicraft build by avro canada.
Jimderkaisser 3 years ago
Nope. This one was built in Chester, England. You're thinking of the one that's in Canada. Both beautiful.
edwardianeccentric 3 years ago 2
No no no !! this aircraft and build by avrocanada , in Canada ( Ontario ). Many pilot of RAF was trained i ncanada because England was in intense bomb attack from V-1 and V-2 so england had no time for made food,ammo,weapon ect. So canada create weapon with Avro-canada like the Hurricain with the first female who work on aerospcial , called the " The queen of hurricaine " learn your history man , so why canada cliam we create the Dam bomb and lancaster and why they have only Lancaster on Musueum
Jimderkaisser 3 years ago
Nuts!
edwardianeccentric 3 years ago
Absolutely beautiful, thanks for putting this up.
wissam24 3 years ago
flew over my house as well! what an amazing site it was
dazz2401 3 years ago
tht thing just flew over my house awsome noise
360expert 3 years ago
awsome!!1
1RAFJOE 3 years ago
i love those aeroplance
the lancasters (L)
ajeb07 3 years ago
hey cappie their is one in hamilton ontario
drunkenscott88 3 years ago
I think there is now only 2 possible one flyable Lancs in the world. One is in south Africia the other at RAF Conningsby in Linconshire.
kaipie93 3 years ago
Yes there are only 2 airworthy Lancasters in the world. One a B Mk.1 (PA474) at R.A.F Conningsby but the other is a B Mk.X (FM213) and is operated by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Canada. There are a couple more Lancasters in the U.K that regularly perform engine runs, but lack the funds to make and keep them airworthy.
Danuleson 3 years ago
The lancaster was a lovely plane, and the first model kit I ever built too.
politirel 3 years ago
ditto
Sentinal3131 3 years ago
such a beautiful plane, i recently saw g for george in canberra, australian war memorial. The most famous lancaster ever that flew 90 raids and came back every time shows you what a plane it is, just wish i had a chance to fly in it like the men that died to protect our countries those years ago.
carlcarlson910 3 years ago 2
Ark at that !!
upkeep617 3 years ago
The most beautiful bomber is the Lancaster and the most beautiful and the best fighter of all time is Spitfire. Shut up ye yankees! >:)
nallepuh6969 3 years ago
fukin retard
drdubb56 4 years ago
You know it's still working if it's still roaring!
Luftwaffe13 4 years ago
anyone out there got any info re..Lancaster Bomber, serial number N4107 of 49 Sqn RAF,crashed Sark, Channel Islands 22/23 Nov 1942, after returning damaged from a mission over Stuttgart..everyone baled out and the aircraft was crash landed by a Sargeant E J Singleton...the serial no, may be wrong.i cant find any info anywhere.
2491tj 4 years ago
I agree!!! what a fantastic sound.
crypticcripp 4 years ago
WORLDS BEST MUSIC-EVER!
terencehooper 4 years ago 2
Lovely aeroplane, those rr merlins sound great. I can't wait to see it this year.
blackburnbuccaneer94 4 years ago
The best piston bomber ever flown by people all over the world. Bt 1945, nearly 25% of Bomber crews were Canadain, mainly due to the death of 40,000 British crewman over Europe.
Joe22300 4 years ago