Fantastic stuff. I saw PA474 - the RAF machine - flying a few years ago and that was powerful as it was... I followed the tour with much jealousy. At one point they overflew East Kirkby, a wartime airfield currently the base for NX611 'Just Jane' which is a Lancaster in taxiable condition (I managed to go for a taxi ride in it once too); so there were not one, not two but THREE Lancasters operating in the same place at the same time for the first time in, on I don't know, five decades??
Incidentally, good thing they didn't try it this year. PA474 suffered an in-flight engine fire a couple of weeks ago (some rather poignant photos floating around of the Lancaster trailing smoke from one engine...) and is grounded for some time.
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