Playing with the Big Boys

[speedbird591]

An Air North HS748 lands near the busy cargo area at Anchorage at noon on a mid-winter's day.



Ian

[DaveB]

The little lady need not feel intimidated

Lovely shot Ian

ATB
DaveB

[Paul K]

Very nice indeed.

[TSR2]

I love that... but I love the Lanc in your sig even more

[Garry Russell]

Nice shot Ian

Love the low angle...just as you'd see it in real life

[speedbird591]

... but I love the Lanc in your sig even more

It's a crop from a print that I treated myself to a while back. You may remember the research and the website (A Statistic of War) I did a couple of years back on the loss of Teddy Davis, my dad's cousin, who died in a Lancaster in 1943. The squadron identifier of his aircraft was PO-K and, apart from the fact that I really liked the picture, it shows a Lancaster with the two letter squadron code hidden and just the K showing. So to me and Teddy's family we like to think of it as a reminder of him.

Thanks everybody for your comments about the 748 picture. It's such a lovely aircraft to fly and so photogenic - but no harm in finding unusual backdrops for it as well

Ian

[Airspeed]

Well done Ian,
Good to see a propellor or two!
As the others said, nice choice of camera angle.

On the subject of your snow- capped Lancaster, it reminded me of an account I read of a Lancaster tail gunner. He thought his time was up when he discovered his Brownings were frozen - that's how cold it was!
He spent several anxious moments watching a FW190 sitting right behind. Eventually it peeled off without firing, and he guessed that the fighter pilot had the same trouble.

[NigelC]

My mother's first husband was lost on 9/6/42 in Lancaster R5495 OF-N of 97 Sqn on a raid to Essen. Suspected to have fallen victim to a night fighter.

On that fateful day, my mother had just found out she was pregnant with my eldest brother, but as he was on ops that night she didn't want to distract him so decided to tell him the next day. He didn't come back and now rests in the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery at Kleve.

A couple of months earlier, this aircraft had flown on missions against the Tirpitz captained by Flt Lt David Maltby (???) later of Dambusters fame.

Nige C

[Garry Russell]

Hi Nigel

I'm always touched by such stories. War is not about big campaigns and mass invasion, it is about ordinary folk caught up in the act and do all they can and many never come back. There was a David Maltby in 617.

May he rest in peace with all our gratitude.