MITM Returns to England: Part 2 (NX611 Just Jane)

It is part two of the trilogy and in this episode I visit Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre at the former RAF East Kirkby. As well as a look inside the museum I was treated to a taxi run by the AVRO Lancaster Bomber "NX611 Just Jane".

[@garybrindle6715]

As a young air cadet I showed visitors around the Lanc at Blackpool airport, great fun sitting in the cockpit.We still used the radio sets as fitted to the Lancaster etc in our cadet HQ at Poulton 2459 those colored dials are easy to recall, talked to other cadet units across the UK.Sign offs to Fleetwood ususually ended by conforming a meet up later at the Hotel Charlie (High Cross Pub)

[@mikepocock575]

Cracking video and well worth a visit,ive been going their for over 30 years now and it just gets better,i also played my small part in getting the Mosquito from Elvington to East Kirkby.

[@vonhewittfilms2668]

You can't leave me hanging there Mike ! What do you do to help them relocate the Mosquito ?

[@mikepocock575]

@@vonhewittfilms2668 Hello mate,sorry its taken a while to get back to you,i picked up most of the support frames and a box of things all that were needed to move the Mosquito. I picked up the load from ST Albans and took them up to Elvington for Tony the owner of the Mosquito. A great time for me. Take care.

[@petersmith7126]

I really hope they get this old girl flying as itll be lovely to see two in the air again over the UK

[@vonhewittfilms2668]

Thank you Peter for your comment. When I visited East Kirkby I heard that although the project may overrun from the original ten year plan all being well she'll fly again one day. If I'm alive and available I'll be there !

[@petersmith7126]

@@vonhewittfilms2668 .... They're doing an absolutely terrific job on her and I know and appreciate it's with limited funds it's just the return to flight always seems to be just around the corner every time you read up on it .... Still the main things she's being well looked after and repaired to a proper standard

[@marcushemsley8614]

Would have been nice to have seen / heard the old girl airborne. So important to restore and cherish this aircraft and in fact everything on site.

[@johnperry9017]

A lot depends on the airframes condition.

[@vonhewittfilms2668]

It's part of a ten year plan Marcus. Might overun a bit but I'm confident this lady will fly again. So many people are involved and I don't mean just financially. The ground crew that look after this old girl are a video in themselves and although I won't get the chance it's a film I'd love to make, the story of those who work on Just Jane. There are some real, and I mean real characters supporting this 'frame' as we used to say in the RAF !

[@timeslip9]

A nicely put together and informative video. For us KZbin film makers it's not always easy to remember to film and take photographs in landscape orientation, I've done it myself on occasion 🙄

[@vonhewittfilms2668]

Thank you. It was just supposed to be a little taste of Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre for those who had never visited. I'm truely overwhelmed by the number of views.

[@davidmartyn5044]

There is another a/c being restored at East Kirkby. A very rare HP Hampton in one of the side hangers. It`s been on hold for several years now. If you search for Neville Wheeldon on youtube, he does a weekly video update of the restoration, and in his 250+ playlist, has covered some little known areas of JJ and East Kirkby. For example, he did a video on the German searchlights in your film.

[@vonhewittfilms2668]

Thanks David. I must admit I did actually see Neville Wheeldon that day and spoke to him ! It was an absolute pleasure but we spoke more about his camera set up than anything else. The German searchlights were a real surprise to me....how they got to East Kirkby. Anyway thank you so much for watching this film as I very nearly didn't publish it as I felt it wasn't good enough. It was just a run and gun film from things I did on my holiday, the next one was about a steam engine and I hope a few people enjoy that too.

[@scmorton2370]

Caffe has been moved to tent and shop is in a converted ww2 shelter as of 14 of September for refurbishment of original

[@vonhewittfilms2668]

Cheers for the update 👍🏻

[@Geoff-n1d]

Why are you blurring out the edges of the video just like the BBC ??? I have a whole screen to view things , absolutely pointless !

[@vonhewittfilms2668]

Blurred it out simply as a screen filler because it was mobile phone footage. But now I've been compared to the BBC, I'll be quite reticent to use it in future !