Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!tellab5!laidbak!mcdchg!att!cbnews!military From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Where to see operationallancasters (was B-17's) Message-ID: <1990Oct17.010951.13017@cbnews.att.com> Date: 17 Oct 90 01:09:51 GMT References: <1990Oct8.220930.7434@cbnews.att.com> <1990Oct11.050916.29421@cbnews.att.com> <1990Oct15.033602.12238@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military-request@att.att.com Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 36 Approved: military@att.att.com From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown) ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes: >They reviewed last year's Geneseo air show >in Flying Models magazine. Among the airplanes >present was an Avro Lancaster that came down >from Canada (if I recall correctly). One of >the pictures was of the Lancaster and a B-17 >flying together. Must have been a sight. I ex- >pect the four Merlins on the Lancaster sound >very different from the radials on the B-17s. The Lanc flies out of the Hamilton airport, about 50 miles from Toronto (and Niagra Falls), and indeed sounds very different from the B-17... A very smooth whine at moderate power settings, a deep howl at takeoff power. Joyce and I sat out off the end of the Toronto International north runway one day during athe annual airshow and heard the lancaster try to warm up... and change plugs... and try to warm up... and change plugs... and howl off at the **low** end of the legal altitudes to show itself to the airport staff that were hosting it. It's well worth the drive over to Hamilton too see the museum there: the Lanc is just the biggest aircraft, not necessarily the most interesting. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA, ...!yunexus!davecb or 72 Abitibi Ave., | {toronto area...}lethe!dave or just Willowdale, Ontario, | postmaster@{nexus.}yorku.ca CANADA. 416-223-8968 | work phone (416) 736-5257 x 22075