Lancaster Bomber’s low-flying visit at Allied Forces Memorial Day

8:26am Monday 10th September 2012 in News

A Lancaster Bomber from the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight makes a low pass for the crowds at the Allied Forces Memorial Day at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington A Lancaster Bomber from the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight makes a low pass for the crowds at the Allied Forces Memorial Day at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington

THE Archbishop of York paid tribute to allied armed forces in a memorial service which included a spectacular flypast at the Yorkshire Air Museum in Elvington .

Crowds gathered yesterday to see a military procession at the annual Allied Forces Memorial Day.

A service was then held in the hangar at the museum to commemorate armed forces of the past, present and future and to mark the 70th anniversary of RAF Elvington.

Ian Richardson, of the Yorkshire Air Museum, said crowds had enjoyed the firing up of some the vintage aircraft’s engines before the parade, which included the standards of the RAF Association and the Royal Observer Corps Association.

He said: “We had a flypast from a Lancaster Bomber from the Battle Of Britain Memorial Flight which came spectacularly low. It had special permission to fly at 100ft, which thrilled the crowds.

“It’s been a really terrific day.”

Comments(11)

BL2 says...
10:37am Mon 10 Sep 12

I wish I'd realised before the event - heard it fly over and it sounded amazing!

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3.8liter says...
10:51am Mon 10 Sep 12

Why didn't the Press tell us that this was going to happen?

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sheps lad says...
12:08pm Mon 10 Sep 12

3.8liter wrote:
Why didn't the Press tell us that this was going to happen?
They did,Friday morning!

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A user says...
12:30pm Mon 10 Sep 12

I was in my back garden and heard this approaching. What a sight and sound it was!

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Digeorge says...
2:05pm Mon 10 Sep 12

The other event that the Press failed to pick up on was a fly past over York of three V10s flying in very close formation southwards towards Elvington A Tribute to the V10s the other week. We will never see those again.

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Digeorge says...
2:06pm Mon 10 Sep 12

Sorry meant VC10s, they were pointed out to me by a very keen aircraft enthusiast!

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M@ says...
3:42pm Mon 10 Sep 12

3.8liter wrote:
Why didn't the Press tell us that this was going to happen?
It was all here on Friday:
http://www.yorkpress
.co.uk/news/9916674.
Service_to_remember_
_our_wartime_heroes/

You remind me of the sort of school kid who would ask, "who has stolen my pencil," when what they actually mean is, "I've lost my pencil".

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jumbojet says...
4:20pm Mon 10 Sep 12

What an awful shot of the Lancaster, 100 feet or not,I could have taken better with my Brownie Box that Mum bought me in 1945, with one shutter speed, a sixtieth of a second, and a low waistline viewfinder. Is this what the digital age has brought us? The propellers are stood, standing, looking totally wrong. A quick course in aviation photography is required, with the emphasis on panning and shutter speed, and that is particularly important when taking propeller driven aircraft, get a grip Press photo person, two out of ten.

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Digeorge says...
4:34pm Mon 10 Sep 12

Clearly not used to photographing aircraft!

This is the one the Press missed:

http://www.raf.mod.u
k/news/archive/vc10-
flypast-30082012

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Lord_Ray says...
10:14am Tue 11 Sep 12

Cleary a moving moment... The sight of a Lancaster hedge hopping, what a view they must of had from the pulpit.

It reminds me of my sortie's over Verona.

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Magicman! says...
1:48am Wed 12 Sep 12

There was something that flew quite low over my house in Huntington on Sunday - having been at Railfest for the flypast there I recognised the sound, so was likely the Lancaster. Wondered why it was in York...

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