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Dark Alley Dan
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Oh, DEAR.
<<clutching of pearls intensifies>>
One wishes CBC could send out a journalist who was perhaps better educated about the subject, or possible less strident.
Dark Alley Dan
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Calgary's (FM136) has been moved indoors. It seems doubtful she'll ever fly again, but never say never.
Here's the story of how she came to be a Calgarian:
https://clarencesimonsen.wordpress.com/category/the-calgary-lancaster-fm136/
Dark Alley Dan
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Have fun with it, Recce. A big job, done to the same high standard as that Mosquito that passed through last year, would be a credit to all involved.
If you're able to share pics, I know we'd all love to see them.
Donny Fenn1
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Good news.
FM104 flew postwar in the SAR role until September of 1964, when she was sold to the City of Toronto and placed on a concrete stick...
...in the rain and snow and essentially left to rot.
In 1999, they pulled her down from her lofty grave and brought her inside for a resotation to static display.
And now she's in Victoria, awaiting restoration to flying status.
http://warbirdsnews.com/uncategoriz...west-to-british-columbia-aviation-museum.html
With the return of FM104 to the air, the world will have three flyable Lancs. Just Jane is on track to fly as well. And, given sufficient funds and expertise, the Nanton Lanc could go up, too.
I would give my left kidney, nut, and leg to see five Lancs fly over me in formation. Twenty Merlins at full song. Imagine what that would be like.
will 17 Merlins do? I think there's more out there when they put hurricanes and mustangs up in the formation but this was the first to come up in search
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"Bradshaw wants an "era correct" appearance, and is currently researching whether a swastika would have typically been on his model. The final paint scheme has not yet been decided on."
Well, of course it should have swastikas on it. Actually it wouldn't as the correct term is "hakenkreuz" but some people call magazines clips and get away with it so be it.
Check out the BCAM website and facebook for FM104 updates. The cockpit section is being worked on first. A full photo survey had been completed and dismantling started. In the meantime some temporary markings have been added to give us an idea of where we are headed....
https://www.bcam.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lancaster-FM104-Update.pdf
https://www.bcam.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Lancaster-FM104-Update.pdf
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Funny, especially since I watched the movie about the guy who used to drill Ol Edgar, but WTF is it doing in Milsurp?
fat tony
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Surprised none of the old hands got it yet. It is the Defection of NKVD agent Igor Gouzenko, & the unprecedented blowing up of everything intelligence related his defection caused which was still being dealt with in the 1970's.
The mackinaw - Douglas Macarthur, who Herbert Norman did valuable work for in Japan post WWII & committed suicide due to the relentless reverse onus placed on him. Rose - Fred Rose MP who was convicted of treason. The Bentley car - Elizabeth Bentley, star 'witness' in the Joe McCarthy witch hunt, the store clerk, Gouzenko was a cipher clerk, the old lion - William Lyon Mackenzie King, the bumbling PM who wanted to bury his head in the sand. The pic of the Belgian hammerless .32 revolver is very similar to Gouzenko's Spanish .32 hammerless revolver, which I was not going to post a pic of. I wonder if Gouzenko's .32 was his 'ghost gun' issued to him by the NKVD or a black market.piece he acquired as part of his defection plans? One thing is certain, Gouzenko was well aware of the lengths the Russians would go in order to carry out a sentence on a Soviet citizen tried in absentia. Ppl. forget.this is one of the reasons the Cold War started in earnest & the 'first shot' was fired in Ottawa. Heck, this incident is one of the reasons Churchill made his speech in Fulton Missourri.
The mackinaw - Douglas Macarthur, who Herbert Norman did valuable work for in Japan post WWII & committed suicide due to the relentless reverse onus placed on him. Rose - Fred Rose MP who was convicted of treason. The Bentley car - Elizabeth Bentley, star 'witness' in the Joe McCarthy witch hunt, the store clerk, Gouzenko was a cipher clerk, the old lion - William Lyon Mackenzie King, the bumbling PM who wanted to bury his head in the sand. The pic of the Belgian hammerless .32 revolver is very similar to Gouzenko's Spanish .32 hammerless revolver, which I was not going to post a pic of. I wonder if Gouzenko's .32 was his 'ghost gun' issued to him by the NKVD or a black market.piece he acquired as part of his defection plans? One thing is certain, Gouzenko was well aware of the lengths the Russians would go in order to carry out a sentence on a Soviet citizen tried in absentia. Ppl. forget.this is one of the reasons the Cold War started in earnest & the 'first shot' was fired in Ottawa. Heck, this incident is one of the reasons Churchill made his speech in Fulton Missourri.
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fat tony
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Gouzenko's Francisco Arizmendi(?) .32 revolver. Uncertain of the caliber - maybe .32 Acp or .32 S&W? Quite a graceful looking piece.
Haha! I guess it is all very obscure, moreso in the 21st century. Amy Knight wrote an excellent book on the subject. She is one of the few writers who gained unprecedented access to recently declassified documents on the case. It is a completely insane story.
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Dark Alley Dan
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Thanks for that, recce.
Is the plan to finish her in postwar SAR markings? That'd be neat.
Dark Alley Dan
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17 Merliins always does, mate.
But there would be something very special about four or five Lancs in formation. The world hasn't seen that in fifty years or more.
Gouzenko's Francisco Arizmendi(?) .32 revolver. Uncertain of the caliber - maybe .32 Acp or .32 S&W? Quite a graceful looking piece.
Haha! I guess it is all very obscure, moreso in the 21st century. Amy Knight wrote an excellent book on the subject. She is one of the few writers who gained unprecedented access to recently declassified documents on the case. It is a completely insane story.
Sad story , the Canadians were actually concerned about offending the Soviets by accepting Gouzenko. Had to go to a newspaper to be taken seriously.
Grizz
Yes plan is to finish FM104 in post war livery. This particular aircraft went to Europe but was not used operationally. As we are the BC Aviation Museum post war livery is more appropriate for us and represents aircraft flown from Comox during the 50s and 60s. Every other Lancaster currently existing is in WW2 dark green/dark brown/black so it will be nice to have something different. Post war air and ground crew with post war Lancaster memories are volunteers at the museum and many more are still alive. There are some interesting stories including a George Cross award to a young man who rescued the pilot from a crashed and burning Lancaster at Comox. I believe he was 14 at the time. The George Cross is the civi equivalent of the VC
http://www.101nisquadron.org/cairn-projects/the-story-of-lancaster-kb-940/
http://www.101nisquadron.org/cairn-projects/the-story-of-lancaster-kb-940/
Dark Alley Dan
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A very good decision, and respectful to her later career. Historically authentic, too.
fat tony
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Elizabeth Bentley, More or less turned 'states evidence' in the McCarthy witchhunt. She strung them along all the while, getting the senate committee to bail her out of bad debts and tax problems by threatening to go to the press & blow the lid off her daily changing false testimony. She thereby had the senate committee in her back pocket. Smart cookie. Notice the resemblance to Dr. Evil.
