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The Duxford Catalina will be on static display at the July 20th evening show at Old Warden: https://www.shuttleworth.org/events/julyeveningair...
You can fly the North Atlantic in a series of small-ish hops taking a Northern route via Scotland->Faroe Isles-> Iceland -> Greenland -> Canada.
Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
Seight_Returns said:
You can fly the North Atlantic in a series of small-ish hops taking a Northern route via Scotland->Faroe Isles-> Iceland -> Greenland -> Canada.
Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
Someone's planning to do it in a Spitfire in a few months.Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
https://www.silverspitfire.com/
If you watch the TV series "Dangerous Flights" you can see the types of aircraft and pilots which take very long delivery flights - often half way round the world.
When I was a keen plane spotter in the 1970s, a trip to Shannon Airport would always result in the spotting of light aircraft which had either just arrived from an Atlantic flight or were getting ready to cross the Atlantic.
As for the Catalina, it had a very special wing (called the Davis Wing) which gave it very good range - obviously deliberately designed that way to allow it to be an effective oceanic patrol aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_wing
During World War 2, thousands of aircraft were ferried across the Atlantic.
When I was a keen plane spotter in the 1970s, a trip to Shannon Airport would always result in the spotting of light aircraft which had either just arrived from an Atlantic flight or were getting ready to cross the Atlantic.
As for the Catalina, it had a very special wing (called the Davis Wing) which gave it very good range - obviously deliberately designed that way to allow it to be an effective oceanic patrol aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_wing
During World War 2, thousands of aircraft were ferried across the Atlantic.
Seight_Returns said:
You can fly the North Atlantic in a series of small-ish hops taking a Northern route via Scotland->Faroe Isles-> Iceland -> Greenland -> Canada.
Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
Faroe Isles don't usually figure in the routing for the heavy stuff, or even for a P-51, they can all do the Scotland-Iceland hop.Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
The Catalina was working its back to the USA as all the USA based DC-3/C-47's were making their over in the opposite direction to Europe for the D-Day events, and just prior to that a USA based P-51D was making the trip over to UK as well, but it went tech just before it was about to make the over-water crossing from Goose to Greenland, so never made it to UK, and it had to return to its US base.
aeropilot said:
Seight_Returns said:
You can fly the North Atlantic in a series of small-ish hops taking a Northern route via Scotland->Faroe Isles-> Iceland -> Greenland -> Canada.
Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
Faroe Isles don't usually figure in the routing for the heavy stuff, or even for a P-51, they can all do the Scotland-Iceland hop.Short haul regional airliners use the route frequently for delivery flights and you'll find stories of people doing it to move light aircraft they've bought in the States to Europe. I imagine the Canadian Lancaster came and went that way when it came to Europe a couple of years ago.
Still an epic flight for a historic aircraft though I agree.
The Catalina was working its back to the USA as all the USA based DC-3/C-47's were making their over in the opposite direction to Europe for the D-Day events, and just prior to that a USA based P-51D was making the trip over to UK as well, but it went tech just before it was about to make the over-water crossing from Goose to Greenland, so never made it to UK, and it had to return to its US base.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoYi8da6yD0
...although I recall them taking a more southern transit route, I think.
yellowjack said:
An hour-long youtube film of John Hawke bringing some B-25 Mitchells over from the USA to the UK to film Hanover Street in 1970, including the Atlantic crossing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoYi8da6yD0
...although I recall them taking a more southern transit route, I think.
It was 1978/9 not 1970, and I well remember the B-25's parked up and unloved at Blackbushe after filming had finished in 1979.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoYi8da6yD0
...although I recall them taking a more southern transit route, I think.
Yes, they took the southern route via the Azores IIRC.
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