Real-life Airfix model - Lancaster bomber 'Just Jane' is disassembled at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Museum East kirkby
18/02/21 Apprentice engineer Bradley Winder (24) works on one of the aircraftÕs four twelve-cylinder Rolls Royce Merlin engines. Full story: Video: Looking like the largest Airfix model you could possibly imagine, parts of a WW2 Lancaster bomber are laid-out in a hanger waiting to be assembled. But this is not a toy. The pieces of wing, fuselage, bombs, machine guns and propeller blades are all real. The famous aircraft is three years into a ten-year restoration which will see it become the third flying Lancaster bomber in the world. Before it can fly again, each part of the four-engined plane known as ÔJust JaneÕ needs to be stripped-down, checked, repaired or rebuilt in order for a certificate of airworthiness to be issued by the Civil Aviation Authority. During the summer months the bomber is used for ground displays and taxiing passengers around a former RAF airfield in Lincolnshire. But every winter, as part of the £4m project, different sections of the Lancaster are restored. This year itÕs the huge tail and rear fuselage thatÕs being worked on . Andrew Panton, 33, general manager at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre in East Kirkby said: ÔThis year weÕre looking at the rear fuselage section and thought with the number of parts weÕve removed from the aircraft it looks very much like an Airfix kit. ÔSo weÕve set it out to see just what it would look like from the air as an Airfix kit would have done in the packet. All Rights Reserved: F Stop Press Ltd. +44 (0)7765 242650
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