Thanks for this video. My dad named me after his best mate who piloted a Lanc for the RAF but sadly died over Europe in '43. I have often made a point of visiting the Australian War Museum in Canberra to visit G for George, put a poppy in the remembrance wall and say a prayer for him.
I live just outside of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and I have the privilege of seeing 1 of the 2 airworthy Lancasters fly over very frequently in the good weather. Very loud, large, and intimidating.
I came over to Toronto this year and made it to Hamilton. The passion and enthusiasm Canada is matched by the people in East Kirkby. I have enjoyed a trip on Just Jane and support the restoration.
My dad was one of the Engine Team at Yorkshire Air Museum, before Elvington was acquired, when the chicken coop that became a Halifax was stored in RAF Dishforth and a couple of JP165's Merlin XXs were under his care for early strip-down - I got involved helping him with the early stuff at Dishforth and the engines, plus the beginnings of Elvington when all we had to reach the upper level of the Control Tower was a ladder. He visited Just Jane maybe 17 years ago, not long before he died, and the team there were so fascinated by his stories as a fellow enthusiast that he got a free ride in the cockpit as the aircraft made its way back to the hanger, after all the paying passengers had finished. He also sat in the pilot's seat whilst all four engines were running prior to shutdown - mum took a photo of him giving a thumbs-up through the open cockpit window. Tony Agar worked for years at YAM on his NF2 Mosquito - I remember visiting regularly and seeing the progress there - before moving her down to be with Just Jane. This museum is a hidden gem in that it doesn't come up on many folk's top-10, and well worth a visit.
Myself and my dad did the taxy trip in JJ a few years ago.. Luckily as our uncle was a Lanc pilot with 100 squadron during the war (KIA Feb ‘43), we were able to stand behind the pilot during the taxy experience. The sound and feel of all 4 RR Merlins being run up is an experience never to be forgotten. It will be an incredible moment when Just Jane takes off.. making 3 airworthy Lancaster’s
A dear old friend, now deceased, was a Rear Gunner in the RAF on the Lancaster. The only Brit on board with an all Australian Crew. When I asked him if he was scared, he replied "You were too cold to be scared. The heating would freeze up and stop above 10000 feet. We'd borrow jackets from the Yanks, theirs were a bit better than ours." He even eventually removed the "glass" from his turret, as others did, which previously they had cleaned thoroughly. "But it didn't matter how well you had cleaned it, if you got just a speck of dirt or oil on the glass, it looked like it was an enemy aircraft, especially at night. That scared you. So we took out the glass." He laughed. "It wasn't so bad then." He told me how one night, coming back after a long haul and when they were back over the English Coast, he fell asleep in the turret. Exhausted. When the aircraft landed, the lads didn't want to wake him. They left him there, sleeping. When he eventually "stirred", he couldn't hear the engines. He panicked. He swiveled the turret and pushed out through the door behind him. Backwards. He landed just a couple of feet later on the grass on the airfield. He was a good man Jimmy Gardiner. RIP
I watch Neville Wheeldon's videos on Just Jane's restoration every time he uploads a video and that can be two or three times a week. Well worth watching it as he has to travel an hour each way from his home to East Kirkby to document the work going on on Just Jane NX611 and the Doncaster fuselage and the French wing they are restoring at the moment. The fuselage will be put onto Jane for next years summer taxi runs while her own fuselage goes through restoration to airworthiness and the rebuilding of the French wing is for them to gain knowledge for Jane's refurbishment to airworthiness in the not to distant future and these dedicated people will be the only ones in the WORLD who will know how to dismantle and rebuild with newly made parts a Lancaster bomber's wing
The thought occurs; when they have refurbed the original parts and put them back into Jane, will they have enough temporary parts to build a non-flying Lanc to go in the musum? Even if it was just a shell, it could be done up such that from outside you wouldn'r know it wasn't a complete aircraft.
Every day going first to and from school and later to and from work my bus would pass the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) in Auckland, NZ, and on display near to the road was - to me - the most beautiful and awe inspiring plane I had ever seen. A Lancaster Bomber. When you visited you could walk inside some of the fusilage but the cockpit and turrets etc were off limits. But to this day - and it's 40 years now since I left NZ - I can still see the plane in my mind's eye. I wish them luck and hopefully I will get to see it fly, even if it's only on video.
@@b747501 Thank you for telling me. I often wonder what happened to it, am glad it's still there. My one enduring memory of my daily travel to school and work. Beautiful plane, then and now.
I love NX611 but she was built in Longbridge in 1945 for Oporation tiger force the same time as PA474 ...so she her self never saw war.. but she saw service with the French Coastal Command.
What an epic project this is and what a dedicated team of experts are involved. and all to honour 'The Greatest Generation' There is no greater cause. I am wondering if the 'crushed by the hangar roof' fuselage section came from Florida as there is a YT channel there ("Kermit Weeks") doing an ex RAF / RCAF Lancaster KB976 which used fuselage sections from KB994 when that hanger in Strathallan collapsed. Or maybe its the actual discarded damaged section from KB976 brought down from Scotland.
Great to see another Lancaster on course for airworthiness. Is it me or does the use of a smug sounding narrator with plucked string music get on other peoples nerves. Seems all the rage on reality tv/documentaries. Sorry👍 rant over. Carry on Jane👍😂
Yes You are right every documentary and now what I would call Talk programmes have this backing. I will honour it by calling it music. It rarely stops for any dialogue. I want to start a movement to ban it but don't know how.
Thanks for this video. My dad named me after his best mate who piloted a Lanc for the RAF but sadly died over Europe in '43. I have often made a point of visiting the Australian War Museum in Canberra to visit G for George, put a poppy in the remembrance wall and say a prayer for him.
I saw the war memorial Lanc decades ago,, to me it looked so small!
I live just outside of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and I have the privilege of seeing 1 of the 2 airworthy Lancasters fly over very frequently in the good weather. Very loud, large, and intimidating.
I came over to Toronto this year and made it to Hamilton. The passion and enthusiasm Canada is matched by the people in East Kirkby. I have enjoyed a trip on Just Jane and support the restoration.
My dad was one of the Engine Team at Yorkshire Air Museum, before Elvington was acquired, when the chicken coop that became a Halifax was stored in RAF Dishforth and a couple of JP165's Merlin XXs were under his care for early strip-down - I got involved helping him with the early stuff at Dishforth and the engines, plus the beginnings of Elvington when all we had to reach the upper level of the Control Tower was a ladder. He visited Just Jane maybe 17 years ago, not long before he died, and the team there were so fascinated by his stories as a fellow enthusiast that he got a free ride in the cockpit as the aircraft made its way back to the hanger, after all the paying passengers had finished. He also sat in the pilot's seat whilst all four engines were running prior to shutdown - mum took a photo of him giving a thumbs-up through the open cockpit window.
Tony Agar worked for years at YAM on his NF2 Mosquito - I remember visiting regularly and seeing the progress there - before moving her down to be with Just Jane.
This museum is a hidden gem in that it doesn't come up on many folk's top-10, and well worth a visit.
If a bunch of British blokes, with beards, in a shed, can't do something, it cannot be done.
Myself and my dad did the taxy trip in JJ a few years ago.. Luckily as our uncle was a Lanc pilot with 100 squadron during the war (KIA Feb ‘43), we were able to stand behind the pilot during the taxy experience. The sound and feel of all 4 RR Merlins being run up is an experience never to be forgotten.
It will be an incredible moment when Just Jane takes off.. making 3 airworthy Lancaster’s
I saw the two flying Lancasters at Clacton in 2014, when VERA came over via Iceland, the sight and the sound were astounding. Fantastic project.
My uncle was a navigator on a lancaster during the war,he survived.. my bucket list is to see a lancaster in real life...great video thanks
My grandfather served in the Lancaster over Germany for the RCAF.....such a beautiful aircraft
A dear old friend, now deceased, was a Rear Gunner in the RAF on the Lancaster. The only Brit on board with an all Australian Crew. When I asked him if he was scared, he replied "You were too cold to be scared. The heating would freeze up and stop above 10000 feet. We'd borrow jackets from the Yanks, theirs were a bit better than ours." He even eventually removed the "glass" from his turret, as others did, which previously they had cleaned thoroughly. "But it didn't matter how well you had cleaned it, if you got just a speck of dirt or oil on the glass, it looked like it was an enemy aircraft, especially at night. That scared you. So we took out the glass." He laughed. "It wasn't so bad then." He told me how one night, coming back after a long haul and when they were back over the English Coast, he fell asleep in the turret. Exhausted. When the aircraft landed, the lads didn't want to wake him. They left him there, sleeping. When he eventually "stirred", he couldn't hear the engines. He panicked. He swiveled the turret and pushed out through the door behind him. Backwards. He landed just a couple of feet later on the grass on the airfield. He was a good man Jimmy Gardiner. RIP
I watch Neville Wheeldon's videos on Just Jane's restoration every time he uploads a video and that can be two or three times a week. Well worth watching it as he has to travel an hour each way from his home to East Kirkby to document the work going on on Just Jane NX611 and the Doncaster fuselage and the French wing they are restoring at the moment. The fuselage will be put onto Jane for next years summer taxi runs while her own fuselage goes through restoration to airworthiness and the rebuilding of the French wing is for them to gain knowledge for Jane's refurbishment to airworthiness in the not to distant future and these dedicated people will be the only ones in the WORLD who will know how to dismantle and rebuild with newly made parts a Lancaster bomber's wing
The thought occurs; when they have refurbed the original parts and put them back into Jane, will they have enough temporary parts to build a non-flying Lanc to go in the musum? Even if it was just a shell, it could be done up such that from outside you wouldn'r know it wasn't a complete aircraft.
Such a great day out to the museum, especially when they are taxing Jane around. Highly recommended
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Every day going first to and from school and later to and from work my bus would pass the Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) in Auckland, NZ, and on display near to the road was - to me - the most beautiful and awe inspiring plane I had ever seen. A Lancaster Bomber. When you visited you could walk inside some of the fusilage but the cockpit and turrets etc were off limits. But to this day - and it's 40 years now since I left NZ - I can still see the plane in my mind's eye. I wish them luck and hopefully I will get to see it fly, even if it's only on video.
it is now around the road in a hanger past the zoo, one of the guys i work with has been inside a few years ago, lucky begger :)
@@b747501 Thank you for telling me. I often wonder what happened to it, am glad it's still there. My one enduring memory of my daily travel to school and work. Beautiful plane, then and now.
I am an avid follower of the restoration of Just Jane NX622. So this something I would watch and enjoy. Thank you.
Neville Wheeldon does a video every week or so (with interruptions from covid!) about this. He's been doing it for 5 years - he's on video 142 or so!
his content is great
Neville is a star!
Had a taxi trip on Just Jane. I was in the bomb aimer position. Absolutely wonderful day.
Fantastic project. Thanks to all for their dedication.
I love NX611 but she was built in Longbridge in 1945 for Oporation tiger force the same time as PA474 ...so she her self never saw war.. but she saw service with the French Coastal Command.
Did you meet Neville? He's filmed a week by week series since work started.
A couple of the wartime shots showed a central fin so were of the twin engined Avro Manchester from which the Lancaster was developed.
Great job lads
Great place to visit and wander around taking in the aircraft and on site buildings etc
Il Lancaster è un aereo meraviglioso
I Can’t wait to see just Jane and fiy with Royal Air Force Lancaster
You and millions of others
Oooohh goody goody! More of this please
Search Neville Wheeldons channel, he is documenting this overhaul in detail. Proper anorak level stuff, its great!
Ironically all these glorious vintage aircraft are in better condition now than they were during the war.
Why is that ironic?
What an epic project this is and what a dedicated team of experts are involved. and all to honour 'The Greatest Generation' There is no greater cause.
I am wondering if the 'crushed by the hangar roof' fuselage section came from Florida as there is a YT channel there ("Kermit Weeks") doing an ex RAF / RCAF Lancaster KB976 which used fuselage sections from KB994 when that hanger in Strathallan collapsed. Or maybe its the actual discarded damaged section from KB976 brought down from Scotland.
nice
Yes, its about year 6? of a 10 year plan to bring "Just Jane" back to airworthy. Great stuff.
Currently in year 5
3:07 i though in the guy of just for laughs program.
I have no idea what to write here, just Jane.
ill guess there will be 3 flying ones then
one here one in conningsby and one in canada
Great to see another Lancaster on course for airworthiness.
Is it me or does the use of a smug sounding narrator with plucked string music get on other peoples nerves. Seems all the rage on reality tv/documentaries.
Sorry👍 rant over. Carry on Jane👍😂
It's all part of the deliberate lampooning of white Englishmen.
Yes You are right every documentary and now what I would call Talk programmes have this backing. I will honour it by calling it music. It rarely stops for any dialogue. I want to start a movement to ban it but don't know how.
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