Dambusters flypast

[IanDarkpeak]

I agree, if it ever happens again I will.

It will...!

We've had an email this pm from a Grp Capt from the RAF that has said that the 75th aniversary of the dambusters in 2018 is also the centenery year of the RAF so put that date in your diary now....

[IanDarkpeak]

2x Spitfires, 2x Tornados and the Lancaster, which nearly didn't make it - it was still on the ground at 1230... (The missus was giving me updates from the Ops Room on progress.)

Whinstone Lee Tor was particularly busy but it looked like carnage on the Snake and Fairholmes Road, with cars arriving right at the last minute and being abandoned all over the place...

Dave Sorry to have missed you I was about 500m north and a little lower than Whinstone. I saw all the people and elected for a quieter spot with the team.

[sore legs]

Great photos Ian, I am very jealous of everyone that was able to watch it!

[Daletownrunner]

My pictures from the eastern ridgeline

Great pictures may have to read the book again now for the umpteenth time:thumbup:

[Alf]

I watched the program on BBC2 last night from RAF Scampton.

Dan Snow kept asking the two surviving veterans present and Barnes-Wallis daughter "how do you feel" like they were some kind of X factor contestants Instead of giving the majority of the program over to them for their memories with the Lancaster fly past as a salute to them and the others who took part we had some kind of "made for TV" RAF recruiting show with marching bands and drill pigs and arranging fine old aircraft like fashion models on the tarmac :thunbdown:. The few mission memories we did have like the tail gunner complaining to the bombadier about the number of bombing passes they were making before they actually dropped the bomb were sublime :thumbup:

Dan Snow scrounged a lift earlier on the Lancaster to fly over the Derwent Dam. I was really hoping they would drop him out and see if he bounced

[davetrave]

Dave Sorry to have missed you I was about 500m north and a little lower than Whinstone. I saw all the people and elected for a quieter spot with the team.

So was I, more or less, in the end. I got to WLT about 1200, having run anti-clockwise via Foulstone and the Edge, and decided to drop down to the wall line that's NW of the Tor by a few hundred metres - very obvious sheep trod drops down to it from the BW countouring below the Edge. Bit closer and at a much better height - more or less level with the flight path.

[sbrt]

My pictures from the eastern ridgeline

Great pictures.
The pilot is chucking it about a bit, for saying she is an old lady.

[RichardAThackeray]

Great pictures may have to read the book again now for the umpteenth time:thumbup:

Do you mean the Paul Brickhill book??

I have a 1952 'Companion Bookclub' edition of that

[Daletownrunner]

The very one I have as well, it was my Grandfathers along with other classics such as the Ascent of Everest etc.

[IanDarkpeak]

Do you mean the Paul Brickhill book??

I have a 1952 'Companion Bookclub' edition of that

Is there any thing in the book about the Derwent dams and the aftermath of the raid in the area. I've seen a copy of the history of the Squadron but it ends all references straight after the raid where we know lots went on there?