I'd rather be flying
I'd rather be flying
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Flight in Lancaster Bomber. Bomb Aimers Seat 7 May 2023
I was privileged enough to be selected to fly in the Bomb aimers seat of the BBMF Lancaster.
I took my GoPro, here's the footage.
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Bit of footage my daughter recorded whilst sat in the back whilst I landed at RAF Cosford
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niamh goggles
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Me and my mate at crail thrash, I'm in the Saab being filmed from the legnum

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @richardmitchell2274
    @richardmitchell2274 18 годин тому

    Just wow thanks for showing us 👍💯🇬🇧

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay 4 дні тому

    I HAVE A SIMILAR PHOTO OF A LANC, WITH CREW, STANDING PROUDLY IN FRONT OF HER, JUSTBACK FROM A MISSION OVER GERMANY. 1944. INCLUDED IS MY HALF BROTHER. JUST BEFORE WARS END, HE WAS KILLED.

  • @ianjohnston2361
    @ianjohnston2361 11 днів тому

    What a fantastic way to see our wonderful country...... Green with envy... 👍 🇬🇧 👍 🇬🇧

  • @DavidFisher-e8e
    @DavidFisher-e8e 17 днів тому

    One word superb 22.34hrs

  • @derrickgreen9020
    @derrickgreen9020 Місяць тому

    You could even imagine those squashed flies to be flack…incredible experience…thank you for sharing this unique view.

  • @anthonyclarke7081
    @anthonyclarke7081 Місяць тому

    Dodging the wind turbines at santa pod! What an incredible bit of film this whole thing is

  • @paulcharlesworth319
    @paulcharlesworth319 Місяць тому

    That was fantastic, really felt as though you were there. Can now imagine how difficult escaping from a damaged Lancaster must have been, almost impossible due to the centrifugal forces. Great video.

  • @JamesWillson-x2p
    @JamesWillson-x2p 3 місяці тому

    To think how many bomb - aimers saw this view and never returned to fly back to their airfields. To all our fallen, Merchant Navy, Royal Navy, British Army, Ro Air Force, Rest In Peace

  • @kevinhoughton9134
    @kevinhoughton9134 3 місяці тому

    Is it just me or is that as fast as a Hawk jet?

  • @jeromelapierre9733
    @jeromelapierre9733 3 місяці тому

    J'ai lu beaucoup de commentaires de personnes ravies, personnellement je dirais tout simplement " JE SUIS JALOUX"

  • @petergearing4796
    @petergearing4796 3 місяці тому

    That's got to be the best view point in the plane, you lucky devil.

  • @olivealbers2478
    @olivealbers2478 4 місяці тому

    An Australian navigator would is friend of our family flew 57 missions and it was too much for him. He flew Lancasters too.

  • @willhovell9019
    @willhovell9019 4 місяці тому

    A great tribute to all those women and men that built the Avro Lancasters that facilitated the RAF to hit back at the Nazis and the V1 and V2 attacks on Britain, including the essential raids on Dresden, home to 130 armaments factories, death marches, rail hubs and center of Nazism, to help take some of the pressure off the Red Army. Respect on the 80th anniversary of D Day

  • @MrRonan3
    @MrRonan3 6 місяців тому

    look like a load of brickies mucking about with Transit vans. how cool is that. none of the prancing about saluting like the Americans trying to look cool putting on show. (get on with it).Brilliant!,

  • @sweetdolphinmarine222
    @sweetdolphinmarine222 7 місяців тому

    that sound , just stirs the blood ❤ , ,,, what an experience , wow

  • @christinamangelo
    @christinamangelo 7 місяців тому

    That beautiful sound must have been a nightmare for Germany to hear.

  • @mattlamming
    @mattlamming 7 місяців тому

    Wow! What a video, thanks for sharing. Anyone told you that you look a bit like that bloke with a recovery truck in Sleaford? 🤔😉

  • @coops1964
    @coops1964 7 місяців тому

    Not only is this a video about a marvellous aircraft which flown by its brave crew, it also shows how beautiful and green England is.

  • @lewistaylor1965
    @lewistaylor1965 8 місяців тому

    I really enjoyed that ride in a Lanc...sitting in front of my monitor with a cup of tea is the closest I'm going to get...so thank you for uploading

  • @floraaficianado5050
    @floraaficianado5050 8 місяців тому

    My father was a Flying Officer and Squadron Leader representing the Royal Australian Air Force, 50th Squadron, flying the AVRO British Lancaster. He played his part well and never lost a man nor plane. At war’s end, he was summoned to appear at Buckingham Palace where he was decorated by King George VI with the Distinguished Flying Cross. Those Merlin engines truly speak to the awesome power and bravery the English endured as a United Kingdom stood its ground in repelling the evil that was Hitler. RIP dad.

  • @KingsleyThomson-j1w
    @KingsleyThomson-j1w 8 місяців тому

    My Dad's best mate was a tail gunner in a Lancaster during world war 2 he was the size of a jockey and was a Scotsman he went deaf during his time in these planes during the war but said it was a grand way to see Europe,,, with a smirk,,,RIP joke ,,👍

  • @EnglishCharlie
    @EnglishCharlie 9 місяців тому

    Exoerience of a lifetime that! (We saw our house )

  • @BLzBob.7268
    @BLzBob.7268 9 місяців тому

    What an experience! Thank you for posting this. Would love to do this myself in memory of an Uncle I never met. Lost on a mission in a Halifax lll aged 20 in '44. No Halifaxes are flying today so a trip on a sister aircraft would be brill. Truly amazing video, and the sound of those four Merlins makes men emotional. 😢

  • @brianmorris8045
    @brianmorris8045 9 місяців тому

    You have to respect the fellas who actually flew the amazing Lancasters' , with lack of space to move around, and flew in them as gunners and navigators, in the bombing raids, a large number not returning, but they all had their part to do one way or another with the other types of planes, Navy, and Army also doing their bit to get the damned war out of the way and return the world to peace. It was a mighty effort for all. Lest we forget those indeed who didn't return all those years ago. The war had only finished 7 years before my birth. Mum, Dad, and Nannas all over the place having to get used to the idea of peace again, everywhere in the allied countries. And newbies to life when we were old enough to understand, being told by family members who were serving in war time, how it was for them, without the heroics. Real heroes never bragged about their efforts in the forces. They did what they were told and we were better off for it, in the end. My father, his father and my uncle, just told us, never bragged.

  • @robleary3353
    @robleary3353 9 місяців тому

    Lucky sod!. 🙂 Those Merlins going flat chat on take off sound wonderful!. Good on the teams keeping this wonderful piece of history flying!. Lest we forget!.

  • @thornscoop2
    @thornscoop2 10 місяців тому

    Awesome stuff, you are a lucky chap!

  • @michaeljenner5628
    @michaeljenner5628 10 місяців тому

    Fantastic. I'm envious !

  • @paulboyle6857
    @paulboyle6857 10 місяців тому

    What a brilliant video! Loved the takeoff & landing & aerial shots of Rutland Water.SantaPod,Blenheim Palace etc.Knocks spots of so called spectacular car videos.

  • @KalCana
    @KalCana 11 місяців тому

    We have a lancaster here in my city ,you can go for a ride in it for 2500.00 canadian..it flys over the city all the time

  • @stevepitt139
    @stevepitt139 11 місяців тому

    ONE OF THE FEW WHO CAME HOME.!!.❤❤🇬🇧🙏🏻.

  • @mothmagic1
    @mothmagic1 11 місяців тому

    That flight improved the day for a lot of people on the ground I think. I know it would have improved mine to be overflown by such a beautiful machine. Having seen Oford airport and Blenheim palace I realise you did make my day better. You actually flew just about over my house.

  • @stevespriggs3543
    @stevespriggs3543 Рік тому

    Wow thank you for an amazing experience, 1 I would love to encounter myself

  • @matthewlardner5328
    @matthewlardner5328 Рік тому

    Wow 😮 Goosebumps on goosebumps 🫡

  • @leektid4624
    @leektid4624 Рік тому

    Come to the Scottish Air show next year

  • @theflyingfool
    @theflyingfool Рік тому

    Nice job! Looks as though you were taught the RAF way :D

  • @theflyingfool
    @theflyingfool Рік тому

    Thank you so much for having the foresight to video this trip. Truly, a once in a lifetime experience and a big thank you for giving me the best impression of what it must be like to be a bomb aimer in a Lanc. I don't envy the ground crew who have to clean off the splatfest!

  • @angelajones9958
    @angelajones9958 Рік тому

    She's a beauty! ❤ Saw her a few years ago at The Bournemouth Air Festival, (this is b4 we saw Leader).

  • @jackglossop4859
    @jackglossop4859 Рік тому

    Madness, best seat in the house. I just can’t imagine having to crawl around in that thing in -30c whilst being shot at for 8 hours. Defies belief what those lads went through.

  • @richardmabe4186
    @richardmabe4186 Рік тому

    Love the Lancaster. If only a Messerschmitt 101 could have come out of the sun for old times sake.

  • @suevosloo2008
    @suevosloo2008 Рік тому

    what a fanta\stic clip and sound

  • @tonyatwell642
    @tonyatwell642 Рік тому

    Absolutely incredible, im doing the tail down taxi run the end of this month which im really looking forward to but would love to do the flight...incredible aircraft and gorgeous to look at 😊

  • @johndavid5618
    @johndavid5618 Рік тому

    "" Brilliant. "" Take off. Love it. ❤️ 💪 ✌️

  • @sylwestermoniuszko-szymans1488

    Was it same aircraft flying low 4th of July above Leicester airport?

  • @nearlythere9443
    @nearlythere9443 Рік тому

    Bomb aimer was the position in a Lancaster Bomber which FO H A Little occupied, my uncle. He had recently turned 21, the pilot was 25 when on their first mission they were shot down and all killed in 1944. They are all buried together in Northern France. The survival rate in Bomber Command was frightening poor.

  • @Levenstone132
    @Levenstone132 Рік тому

    That had to be one of those 'pinch yourself' experiences. Brilliant!

  • @shopmobgm
    @shopmobgm Рік тому

    It's always been a dream of mine to fly aboard the Lancaster

  • @drewcanton235
    @drewcanton235 Рік тому

    Info: The only other Lancaster flying is in Hamilton Canada...

  • @SuperGed777
    @SuperGed777 Рік тому

    Splendid!

  • @ErnaldtheSaxon
    @ErnaldtheSaxon Рік тому

    I love the way you were shaking your head whilst passing over those wind turbines 😂

  • @rogerhudson9732
    @rogerhudson9732 Рік тому

    In 1990 I was standing on a roof in East London and heard the roar , looked up and the Lancaster was turning right above me, rehearsing for the Battle of Britain flypast, an unforgettable sight and sensation of the 4 Merlins in a power turn.