Hi F16,
I've looked at my database have the same information thats on the link provided by A4K's posting above.
Celerite, the photos that you have, are of a different wellington bomber also lost 2 Apr 1942.
Your one was a wellington Mk Ic of 150 squadron bomber command RAF Serial No...
For me it has to be the Lancaster, Spitifire Hurricane 2x B17's - although what really hit me as being beautiful graceful, was the genuine 1918 Bleriot that flew at flying legends this year -apparently the pilot that was flying it has not one, but TWO genuine bleriots - lucky s*d:shock:
I...
Hi Rochie,
Serial Numbers WERE unique, but aircraft were sometimes transferred between squadrons, or if damaged beyond local repair due to combat, or landing/taxying accidents, they were sent to repair facilities then sent on to replace other aircraft lost on other squadrons the repair...
Hi Guy's -
The weather was a bit overcast on the day i went, (saturday) there was a small shower, otherwise it was perfect. there were more people there than last year due to the fact that the airshow at fairford had been cancelled due to flooding (bad weather).
I bought myself a...
Welcome to the forum,
Heres a 625 sdn lanc picture taken from the book Lancaster Squadrons in focus by M Postlethwaite.
My records show that 625 sdn lost two aircraft that night on the raid on stuttgart, the other main raid that night was on Hamburg, it was a bad night for bomber command...
whilst clearing out my hard drive ready for the flying Legends display 2008 photos i'll be taking next month, I came across some from last years show. these have been uploaded to the picture album - hope you like them!