I thought I'd perhaps resurrect this old thread and drum up some pics and videos taken over the last few years since I've neglected this - if there's interest.
Last week we held another successful "Bikes and Bombers" fundraising event where folks come and show of their motorbikes and the museum pulls out their stuff and does some engine runs.
I took this with my iPhone of something you don't see everyday - a Fleet Fawn trainer engine start. I had hoped to upload a video but the file is too large and I'm pretty green at movie editing.
The museum also has a nicely restored Bollingbroke painted up as the mount of P/O Barry Davidsonof my home town, Calgary. Davidson was the famous "Scrounger" of the Great Escape fame and his son, also named Barry, is on our board of directors for the Mosquito and Hurricane restoration projects.
Nice. I had one flight out of a fire camp in one of those but I don't know its history. Last I heard it did a wheels up landing on a reserve gravel runway
Last Saturday, after a day working on the Mosquito, a group of our volunteers and me stayed down at the Bomber Command Museum of Canada in Nanton to attend a fund raising dinner and auction to help with the costs of a planned expansion of the museum to house its growing collection of artifacts and to provide a large taxi area for the Lancaster and other operable aircraft at the facility. After a wonderful dinner of BBQ hickory smoked roast beef and a live and silent auction, we headed outdoors for an exciting night engine run of the Lancaster. Here are a couple of pics and short video clips that I took of that event. Great to see all 4 Merlins spitting blue flames!