One of them landed at the Forks once. It was wild to see a Lancaster next to a
B-1B, almost able to fit under one wing of the BONE.
They wanted to get a pic of them flying that morning (the Lancaster had landed
at about sunset.) Since I was on mids, we got to watch. The B-1B takes off and
starts circling. And circling. Like it was almost comical, the BONE made like 5
laps around the base in the time it took the lancaster to start its takeoff
roll, and another two laps during the roll.
That's when everyone realized that the cruising speed of the Lancaster was
BARELY over stall speed for a BONE. So the AC on the BONE said "okay, have the
Lancaster fly really straight. You're going to get one shot on this, because
I'm not flying this low and slow again" Full flaps and slats, and the B-1B
looked like it was about to fall out of the sky. I was able to find one pic of
it a few years ago. They were much farther apart than the angle makes it look.
But it was really cool and the lancaster crew was really nice. They gave SO
many tours. Ye gods was that plane cramped.
-----Original Message-----
From: <mmr-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Shaun Redmond
<sredmond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 1:34 PM
To: "mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [mmr] Re: An clean, concise synopsis of the CF-105 Arrow
mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Sounds a lot like the saga of the TSR 2 in the UK.... Another waste of
>advanced technology of the day.
>
>
>[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2
>]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2
>
>
>Got to see one in the RAF museum at
>Cosford a few years ago. Amazing looking aircraft even now.
Jerome, thanks for the info on the TSR-2. I wasn't aware of it. After
reading the wikipedia entry about it there are some eerie parallels. Based
on the timing it gives me a sense that there was some technology bleed
over. Maybe the legend/rumour of Arrow airfame RL-202 making its way to
the UK has some merit.
There are a handful of saved components (Including an Iroquois engine)
from the program on display at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in
Hamilton.
https://www.warplane.com/
They do restorations and have quite a flying fleet that you can book a
flight on including one of only two Lancasters still flying. I did a
flight on a Canso for my 50th. Definitely worth doing while these birds
are still airworthy.
Cheers,
Shaun
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