Want to fly on a Lancaster?

[steve185]

Interesting article with some cool photos.

Got $40K? You could cross the Atlantic in a Lancaster bomber - Latest Hamilton news - CBC Hamilton

[afterburn 549]

Love too !
But, for the price do i get First Class? LOL

[ZOO]

Four of my great uncles flew as Lancaster crew in WWII. One pilot. One navigator. One tail gunner. One bombardier. I can't imagine what their reaction to this story would be.

[Komenda Fan]

That beautiful aircraft flies overhead occasionally. You can hear those four Merlins humming from miles away, and I never miss an opportunity to watch her pass. You can get a flight on her from the Warplane museum, but by the time you get your membership and pay for the flight, it's rather pricey. I'm more likely to take a ride in their Boeing Stearman this summer, which all in comes to something like $375 for the ride.

Certainly not knocking the cost of any flight on these aircraft, the museum had to get those Merlins rebuilt, and it was astronomically expensive, not to mention the cost of filling that 2,400 gallon fuel tank! I'm just glad the aircraft was saved and returned to airworthy condition.

[JD159]

I see that thing fly over all the time. Have a buddy who's grandfather flew one, crashed and made it back. Literally all summer I see it multiple times a week, as well as the entire heritage museum!

[74-911]

A couple of years ago I went up in a B-17 for the better part of an hour. It is very noisy inside from the engines and wind and very little room to move around. After that brief ride it just reinforced the tremendous admiration for those who spent long hours at altitude in the bitter cold over Germany. Flying in those conditions with MEs, FWs and Flak doing their best to kill you is not for the faint of heart.

As to the cross Atlantic flight in the Lancaster: I think it would get really boring spending hours and hours over nothing but water. The takeoff and landing and first few hours would be really great however. Just my opinion anyway.