Bomber Boys - BBC1 tonight
 

Having watched Ewan and his brother on the Spitfire one, I'm looking forward to watching this tonight its about the Lancaster bomber and its crews

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01byv2g

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I remember seeing a Lancaster once at an Airshow years ago. What a phenomenal sound it made.

Brave boys/men that took to the air in them. Looking forward to this, make a change from all the tripe that's been on lately.

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Fabulous! 4 Merlin engines all at once, great noise

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thanks for the reminder

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Cheers, I'll have to tape that - I get to crawl over that Lanc most years, its awesome
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Invoice is in the post

Tape - what's that ;)

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Its something us old boys do, along with using slide rules, gallons, acres, yards and listening to the wireless :)

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It's on sky+ :D

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Barb is watching the skating, and recording Hawaii 5-0 followed by some other thing.

i-Player for me.

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Yeah im looking forward to this too, spitefire one was great.

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Sky+ BBC1 HD :cheers:

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Thanks for the reminder!

Usually along the lines of this.....

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...9_793815_n.jpg

I shall be back under a Lancaster later on in the year, with a few mates for the annual Buell and Italian Bike Charity Day....shameless plug, but its a damn good day, with some damn fine people and bikes attending!
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Yep looking forward to this, just had to rush our anniversary meal to get home in time for top gear and then that :)

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Spitfire Programme? Is that still on iPlayer?

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Doubt it, it was on a while ago

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I have a long term lust thing going on with Ewan McGregor, but that's not why I'm watching this. I was lucky enough to help organise a flypast by the Lancaster at work a couple of years ago. And we had the veterans in for the day. They had some amazing stories to tell. At the end of the match I brought Andrew Strauss and Michael Clarke out to have their photos taken with the veterans, it was one of my most memorable days at work.

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Brilliant show. Due to my job I get to visit the BBMF on occasion. On one of my previous visits I was given the honour of actually going on board the Lancaster and sitting in every crew position including the pilot seat. It's a thing of beauty but as was stated in the programme it certainly is cramped even wearing civvies. I dread to think what it would have been like trying to get out in the dark wearing full flight gear whilst being shot at.

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That was brilliant and really enjoyed it :)

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Yep, great prog watching it fly was quite emmotional for me and some of the memories I hold when I've seen it fly.

Good to see that those Bomber Boys have finally been recognised.

It won't be long before most of them have gone, so it was good to hear their side of the story.

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Was a great programme, only gripe I had with it was, when they struck those beautiful Merlin engines up, and every time it flew close by all I could hear was *that* friggin music drowning out the engine sounds!

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The Merlin sounds a bit ordinary when broadcast on tv.The only way to listen to it is live.
Great program,and Im not normally a huge fan of Mr Mcgregor.

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I think I may have mentioned this one before but I was in the Air force in the 80's and was in the MT yard one morning when I heard the unmistakeable sound of merlin engines approaching, as if by magic people started to appear for everywhere to see what was approaching, just before they came into view I asked the question 'whats that ?' a sgt who was stood behind me put his hand on my shoulder and said quietly ' that son, is the sound of freedom' just after that the BBMF hove into view, quite a moment, don't think the tornado or typhoon will have the same affect on people