The Lancaster - RAF's Top 10 Warplanes | Forces TV

[@tommurphy4094]

Love the Lancaster! My favourite WW2 aircraft. Happy hours putting my model Lanc together as a kid in late 70’s.

[@petesheppard1709]

Even though I'm a Yank, the Queen's brief smile when the Lanc passed during the RAF 100 flyover was touching. It seemed that, for a moment, she was a young girl again.

[@davidclarke6718]

This generation were hard as nails it will never be seen again.

[@clayp.e30_v86]

I've been waiting for this I knew she woukd be up there. She makes my hairs stand up when I see her fly in the Bbmf and I'm only 36 years young. So much admiration for those that flew them in anger. So young yet so brave. 55 thousand.... The number is staggering to think about 😲☹ lest we forget

[@kevelliott]

4:41 "There we were - upside down, nothing on the clock but the maker's name." Classic!!

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

Simply the best

[@gavg89iiuktvii35]

Thank you for your service god bless you all 🙏🏻🇬🇧🙏🏻

[@fossy4321]

fossy4321 The Brits flew daylight raids and realized early on (before the US joined the war ) that the losses were too great, we explained this to our new allies,,, but they knew better and so were decimated by German fighters! And now parade it as some sort of moral victory. They also claim to have attacked the hardest beaches on "D" Day, well that is probably true but only because they made them so! The brits had an arsenal of craft specially designed for this task which we called" Hobarts funnies" These were tanks with flails which could drive through minefields and barbed wire to leave a safe route for the infantry, Also armored cars that could fill ditches with logs ETC to allow vehicles to cross plus many more . These were offered to the Americans who turned them down as "US bombing would destroy German defenses" and so these silly UK Vehicles were not required! Imagine a machine with forward chain flails and cutters to wind up and destroy barbed wire in the film "saving private Ryan" It would of been a lot less dramatic. How many brave Americans died because of that arrogant "we know best" supercilious attitude?

[@James-dq7oi]

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[@TonoFonseca]

Hello all. I live in western Canada. We have two in Alberta - one in Nanton, which I have been inside, and a partial one in Calgary. They were beautiful aircraft, yet the bringers of so much terror to Germany's civilians. The one in Nanton I believe was a surplus aircraft that never saw combat and first flew in 1946. I think it was a trainer or something for a while, then a coast patrol aircraft in Newfoundland.

[@apropercuppa8612]

Met a number of Australian Lancaster Pilots where I work. Met a few Spitfire Pilots as well.

[@timothyphillips5043]

True heros.

[@andurothextramile1931]

Learnt something new

[@stoufer2000]

Great video.. thanks for this.. What hero's these people were.. Particularly poignant given todays D Day commemoration

[@woooster17]

I was lucky enough to stand in the cockpit behind the pilot and engineer in Just Jane for a taxy ride. My uncle was a pilot for 100 Squadron, but was KIA February 23rd.... only the tail gunner survived. I have his logbook.

[@para7843]

Brave men

[@user-fz7qt7gi5p]

What about the Halifax mark 3?

[@richardtaylor8165]

The Lanc fully deserves its place of course. But what about the Wellington - weren't there mote of them in WW2?

[@dygi7631]

YASSS👌 We needed this😂😂😂😂

[@jakea8483]

I saw this last year on remembrance day as i was an Air Cadet doing the parade. It flew over where the parade was

[@vcvbrrory2269]

If only my parents would let me

[@joecooper97]

Only '40s kids will remember these

[@matthewthomas8432]

Wasn’t there. My Dad and Mums dad were there. Rip & LWF & MOTH

[@iancouzens]

I bet Rusty is super proud of the current UK government. My dad had the privilege of being the 'Tail-end Charlie in a Lancaster' in WWII, If he could have looked into the future, he would not have bothered.

[@dovidell]

Yanks will no doubt say that the B 17 was better - ironic since one of the tasks of the B 17 was to sink ships , yet it was the Lanc that sunk the Tirpitz

[@mikepocock575]

Lovely to watch and the "Yankie" word mission not used.Well done.

[@estellemelodimitchell8259]

Not much is said about the bombsight on the Lancaster. How accurate is it compared to the Norden bombsight used by the American bombers, which is reputedly the best during the 2nd WW?

[@richardanthonygilbey]

The death wagon Lancaster Bomber is best consigned to history

[@DavidJames-op3kg]

can't you take that annoying music away? have a job to hear the old boys speaking

[@-lightningwill-6014]

Personally I think if the yanks bought the license for these and the mosquitos the yanks would have been far more successful

[@samj.s3132]

Send the hun to the sun

[@dovidell]

making Dresden as hot as the sun !!!

[@Blunt3021]

So everyone’s gonna ignore the fact this plane mainly targeted innocent civilians in German cities.

[@andyrichardsvideovlogs8835]

78755477 78755477 and the Luftwaffe didn't? Grow up and live in the real world. It was a struggle for our very existence. Stop trying to impose 21st century morality on the 1940s

[@para7843]

78755477 78755477 like the Germans didn't kill innocent civilians and alot more the war was started by Germany not us. We wouldn't surrender we never will. We fought fire with fire that's war.

[@Blunt3021]

Andy Richards 4.3 million civilians killed during allied bombing campaigns in Germany let that sink in mate.

[@Blunt3021]

Carl Seddon let’s admit to the atrocities your country took part in first and foremost. There’s a long list buddy and it still hasn’t stopped yet.

[@olisko3484]

78755477 78755477 yes they killed civilians yes it's wrong but so did the Germans and thanks to the British and Russians and Americans I live in a free world and if you ask me 4.3 million dead civilians are worth this freedom and this could have been avoided if Germany hadn't threatened that freedom