Avro Lancaster Bomber Tour | Battle of Britain Memorial Flight

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Sergeant Matthew Marriott, an Engineer from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight gives us a behind the scenes tour of their Avro Lancaster Bomber PA474. It is one of only two Lancaster aircraft in airworthy condition and did not take part in any hostilities. Subscribe here: www.youtube.co...
Thank you to the Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and Sergeant Matthew Marriott for their time and braving a snow storm to host the STARRSHIP team.

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@lornaburgess9762 2 жыл бұрын

My Brother was a Senior Aircraft Technician at BBMF now retired from RAF and working at East Kirkby Air Museum working on NX611 Just Jane.

@jamesodd3896 3 жыл бұрын

Amazes me how many young men bravely took the missions & when you see old photos they're all smiling. Great generation.

@jorgenandersson9521 2 жыл бұрын

I am 62-years old and I can´t see anyone that could force me in to this at my age!!!!!The "brave" shooters on the streets this days should be forced to joining the lads at this time!!!!

@jamesodd3896 2 жыл бұрын

@@jorgenandersson9521 after my uncle Ernie died I discovered he was a tail end Charlie in the Lancaster . I wish I'd known back then I'd have wanted to know all about it. I just worry that today this generation easily throw away hard fought freedoms. Freedoms to express opinions which are not "correct"

@tonylarkin7564 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate great tour. Good that you didn't forget us aussies .460 RAAF SQN. Lest We Forget.🇦🇺

@mytube2959 2 жыл бұрын

My dad was a tail gunner, managed to do a full tour, even after having a wound in his shoulder . Got to 92, miss him loads.

@patriciabracken7546 4 жыл бұрын

I think you are a very lucky guy..to be beside the Lancaster.... The stripes on you're jacket tells me you're a Sergeant.. ..wow... The Lancaster bomber is my favourite...4rolls Royce merlin engines.....made at Castle Bromwich Birmingham.... My bucket list wish is to see her in person.... I'm her number 1fan... Amazing Aircraft.... 💟💝💗💖💞💞💚💚💛👍👍👍👍👍👍💜👏👏👏👏👏👏

@bubbleobill267 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was a navigator on one of these during WW2. He said that tail end Charlie was usually hosed out at the end of a bad mission. We cannot even begin to thank these men for their sacrifices.

@bartjennings 6 жыл бұрын

Such an incredible aircraft. Thank you sergeant, and the BBMF for preserving this history.

@STARRSHIP 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 😀

@jimfarnell5813 3 жыл бұрын

My father (a Canadian in the RCAF) flew 30 night missions over Europe & Nazi Germany on a Canadian crew aboard a Lancaster from 1943-1945… he was the navigator…

@gaz11h Жыл бұрын

Thanks great video so good to see the inside of PA 474

@chrismaplethorpe6781 4 жыл бұрын

Recently visited the memorial flight and seen this amazing plane. Is worth a visit. We must never forgot the sacrifice the armed forces give and have given for our freedom

@lesliesmith9155 7 ай бұрын

Rolls Royce starship I remember as a school boy (Roy chadwick) said keep it simple and he he Had a bit of bad luck with the (Manchester) so he got the engernears to fit light switches (as the engine magneto short out units) engine cut outs this is only part of hundreds of good simple good ideas that was so helpful I was about 10 years old when I heard of that now I am 68 and still marvel at the avro Lancaster God bless them all ❤ 😅😊😊😅😊😊😅🎉

@sacreballs 4 жыл бұрын

My Granda was a navigator in n the Lancaster during WW2. Would have loved to hear more stories from him but he never said much. He always talked about another pilot called Cornfield Jack as he always overshot the runway on landing and ended up in the corn field. Granda flew raids over Dresden. Our generation wouldn’t dream of it now. We’ve bred a bunch of jessies.

@Irons1895 3 жыл бұрын

My grandfather was a bombaimer

@jimfarnell5813 3 жыл бұрын

My dad was a RCAF navigator on a Canadian Lancaster crew… they too bombed Dresden

@falklandswar2 Жыл бұрын

Granddad replaced camera things in v bombers bombay

@donbrashsux 3 жыл бұрын

...Respect ..Bucketloads

@markorollo. Ай бұрын

I live in Chadderton, Oldham, about a mile from an old Avro factory where they used to build Lancasters, i think there was another one down the road in Failsworth too. And i found out not too long ago i had a distant relative that was a gunner on Lancasters,

@davidwitter3986 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. That was informative. Great perspective. I got to see them living near Mt Hope Ontario. Avro did good work. cheers

@placidrenegade 4 жыл бұрын

Saw her fly low over my place yesterday. Such a wonderful surprise and it made my year. Lest We Forget

@DavidAndrewsPEC 6 жыл бұрын

Beautiful aeroplane! I love this lineage of aeroplane - Lancaster-Lincoln-Shackleton ... I think that the Shackleton probably was the best that this line of design could have gotten to. But they were all brilliant machines, and they definitely made up for the short-term blunder that was the Manchester.

@jonriley8342 Ай бұрын

Thanks very interesting

@davidlawrencebanks4610 4 жыл бұрын

Such beautiful condition, an absolute credit to all involved 👌

@jamesbraine 6 жыл бұрын

I fell in love with Flying Fortress type planes when I was 10. My dad took me to see Memphis belle which was a 12 rated. Im really enjoying your videos, keep up the good work.

@STARRSHIP 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Really glad you're enjoying it

@daniell1869 3 жыл бұрын

Also you could tell this guy did not want to be giving this tour today lol. He was so unhappy

@jedmarshall217 6 жыл бұрын

Love your channel and the videos you make! This was super interesting. Hope you’ll grow larger and get a bigger viewership.

@STARRSHIP 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

@ronniepickering9191 2 жыл бұрын

that was great

@markorollo. 3 жыл бұрын

i live about a mile from the old avro factory in Chadderton, Oldham where many, if not most, lancasters were built. regretably i didnt realize that until just a few years ago.

@SeanBZA 6 жыл бұрын

My father used to fly those, though one of his flights did end rather abruptly over Austria, much to his concern.

@STARRSHIP 6 жыл бұрын

Blimey! Was he ok?

@SeanBZA 6 жыл бұрын

Well, considering that his last memories of the flight were saying to his guys to jump, and that he remembered his parachute and seat were on fire, he was not in a good position. 6 weeks later he woke up in an Austrian hospital, cased in plaster head to foot, and was told by the nurses that they had found him in a snow drift under a pine tree, with a hole in the tree where he had fallen through the branches. The German searchers had assumed him to be dead, but an Austrian doctor had to write out the death certificate, so used a stethoscope and found a heartbeat, and thus he went into the hospital. Broken pretty everything, and a massive scar on his back from top to bottom where they had done skin grafts on him to heal the burn. After 3 months he was considered nearly fit enough to be transferred to a concentration camp, Buchenwald, and decided, with the help of the Austrian nurses and a fellow crewman who was also there injured, to escape and leg it to Switzerland. They "borrowed" uniforms from the Kommandant and his Adjudant, and along with "borrowing" his Adler staff car, one Friday they tore up sheets, tied them to the window frame, threw them out as a makeshift rope, and walked out the door. Kommandant that morning had gone to Berlin by air for a regular scheduled meeting. Then took the Adler SS staff car, and drove like the clappers to the land of Alps and chocolate, and, because the vehicle was emblazoned with SS insignia, the guard posts along the way did not even stop them. Pull over the border, start up the pass and near the top wrote the dar off on a patch of black ice. Walked to the nearest Swiss village and roused the local policeman and asked for asylum. He wanted to send them back as deserters ( Dad grew up in Germany and spoke fluent German and English), so they had to get arrested, so they beat up the policeman . Thrown in jail, and the next day before a magistrate, who, after a few phone calls to the UK to confirm identity, allowed asylum and repatriation, and dropped the charges. Then a few weeks later they were back in the UK, alive and recovering.From there he went to North Africa and Burma.

@STARRSHIP 6 жыл бұрын

What?! That should be a film! Very lucky man.

@Teknostorm108 4 жыл бұрын

That’s an absolutely crazy story, definitely film worthy haha

@timothygrocock8433 3 жыл бұрын

Lest We Shall Forget. God bless armed Forces. Peace and Love.

@RaceWithDevil1 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic machine from italy

@alconamx 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scholesy

@kenc9236 3 жыл бұрын

Brave men.

@Colin32269 3 ай бұрын

The refurbished Lancaster Bomber in Hamilton Ont.Canada is flying into Goderich Ont on June 14th 2024,there are only 2 left in the air today.

@fredrickolsen838 Ай бұрын

I’m going to the Hamilton heritage museum next month. Looking forward to seeing the Lancaster. If it happens to be in the air whilst I’m there and don’t get to see it, I can’t say I’d be disappointed.

@daniell1869 3 жыл бұрын

Fun tour but you seem to have forgot any sort of flashlight as all the interior shots were just dark nothingness :D next time get some better light for us!

@WarblesOnALot 2 жыл бұрын

G'day, And..., so, the BBMF lacks anything with which they might have cast a ray or two of illumination, onto the interior close-up shots of structural components - particularly in the Bomb Bay..., eh ; and whyfore would that be..., one wondurzzz ? Just(ifiably ?) sayin' Take it easy... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

@steviegilberthorpe238 6 жыл бұрын

Well done uncle Matthew 😂😂💖

@paulwillson8887 4 жыл бұрын

Been through the Canadian Warplane Heritage s Lancaster. BBMF Bravo Zulu

@EvilPumpkinPlays 3 жыл бұрын

my grandad was on the back of the it on gun

@gerrycollins7079 2 жыл бұрын

Obviously pilots and training time/facilities were in short supply during the War, but I'm surprised that only one person capable of flying the aircraft was in the crew. No wonder that pilots tried to train their flight engineers to at least land the 'plane. I believe that WW2 US bombers crewed a co-pilot on their missions.

@StephenJPayne 4 ай бұрын

Nice, but doesn't need music.

@Sir_Uncle_Ned 6 жыл бұрын

Without the bombs, you have a bit of weight to work with and could very well convert that airframe into a luxury aircraft with front, middle and rear observation pods.

@STARRSHIP 6 жыл бұрын

That's a cool idea! It would need to be pressurized.

@Sir_Uncle_Ned 6 жыл бұрын

Obviously, but carbon fibre bulkheads won't add too much weight.