Edmundston needs a home for it's Lancaster

[Mike Cecil]

http://airforcemuseum.ca/eng/?page_id=767

Mike

[Robert Bergeron]

I have met and befriended one of the volunteers ( Grant H) in the museum in Victoria while i was working there last year . They are dedicated , educated and funded . They have a first class aviation museum there . The weather allows for some really neat outdoor exhibitions also including historical military vehicle meets and re-enactments. They are going to succeed i am sure. On a personal note , i have been inside the cockpit of the Edmunston plane when i was a child in the 60 ´s a few months after it arrived . It was a functional plane then . I decided to become a pilot on that day and did eventually . I am glad it is starting a new life in Trenton where the museum is really , really a first class military aviation shrine that i visited often when working in Trenton . Cheers , Bob

[Brian Gough]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...lane-1.5314883


Brian

[Darrell Zinck]

Hi

Vid of the initial "move" on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK48OhfxT7A

regards
Darrell

[Brian Gough]

Former Edmundston Lancaster bomber restoration on track for 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...mber-1.5838203


Brian

[Brian Gough]

Here is the link to an update on the restoration of Lancaster KB882 at the National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ontario

https://driving.ca/auto-news/local-c...r-force-museum

Brian

[Marc Montgomery]

Well very good news about KB882, as in an earlier post, the now unreliable and 'awakened' CBC had falsely written that this was a Dambuster Lanc.

I would so love to see one of the few being restored in Canada actually make it beyond static display. The Halifax in Trenton (which I also wrote about long ago) can never fly again, because many parts were impossible to find and had to be fabricated to look right but were not airworthy suitable.

One of my father's buddies was a Lanc pilot, but at the time, although I was somewhat aware of the significance, I never really asked about his experience (damn fool) and now he's gone of course.

He did mention that after one sortie, he was either lost or short of fuel and had to land on handy strip. but the strip was too short for the plane to take off again, so it was dismantled for parts!
(perhaps there was much more to this story but I never pushed him for details (damn fool)

I always find it incredible that the CO of the Dambusters in charge of and responsible for all those men and planes and planning was a mere 25 yr old , also known as fearless.

Don't know what you were like in your 20's but I would say personally I was as much 'rear orifice' as anything else.

One thing that surprises me about the Lanc and others, is that it is such a big plane but the cockpit is really cramped and it seems not really bigger than the cockpit of a single engine plane like a cessna.

One thing that concerns me however is the age of people interested and those restoring or preserving these artifacts. Not a lot of younger types from what I can see.

There's a very small museum at Ste Anne de Bellevue just west of Montreal, and although a very good effort with some interesting stuff, it also is all volunteer and generally older guys.

((I'm surprised the following links still work, given that Radio-Canada/CBC with Liberal agreement, killed off the International Service-))

https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2014/04/30/...vivor-of-wwii/

https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2016/07/08/...s-war-veteran/