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"Andrew-S" I-Still-Hate-Spammers@Sorry-I had-to-leave-for-bit.com
wrote:

Now this is interesting...
Isn't this that Lanc that was rescued a few years ago from memorial
duties???
Spend an hour or two in Photoshop doing restoration and you have the makings
of an excellent image... If you need help ask!!! Because it really does
have the makings of a very image. Did you take it???


Andrew

I don't know anything of this aircraft's history after I snapped these
pics. This was the summer of 1962 and I was working the control tower
shift (not in air traffic control, but taking weather observations).

The Lancaster was, I think, there for search and rescue. The USA was
bringing a large number of aircraft back from Europe following the
Berlin crisis. We had I don't know how many planes come through over a
two or three day period. The ramp was practically full of jet fighters
during that period. Since it was summer the operation could continue 24
hours per day (midnight sun, an all that). Once they were over the ice
cap Sondrestrom was the only option for most of these aircraft so it was
important to keep the single runway open. They placed a bulldozer beside
the runway. If anybody lost it, the plan was for the dozer to shove the
remains out of the way so the rest of the planes could get in.
Fortunately the dozer was not used. Nobody lost it in this big
operation. No glacier girl type incidents.

I've been practically living in Photoshop since I got my slides scanned
(about 1300 of the them, but only a hundred or two from my Air Force
days). I'm going to try to paste a picture of a terrified kid on the
nose of the Lancaster. That would be cool, yes? ;^)

Thanks for the kind comments, Andrew.

Best regards,
Dave W.