Via a number of forums (for example, colour photographs of WW2 aircraft) and sites I have collated a number of colour photographs from the Second World War showing Lancasters in flight, being constructed and serviced and on various airfields.
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roy etherton
22/5/2017 11:03:35 pm
I am putting together a DVD to celebrate the 100th anniversary of 101 squadron and I WAS WONDERING IF I MAY USE SOME OF YOUR VERY EVOCATIVE PHOTOGRPHS PLEASE. I WILL OF COURSE ACKNOWLEDGE THE SOURCE.U
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Craig Smith
22/5/2017 11:13:20 pm
Yes - that's fine.
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stephen smith
29/11/2019 07:48:51 am
These are most valuable photographs and appear to re-create the atmosphere and attitutes of the period. Thank you so much for publishing them. I am producing a lancaster model for the family of a tail gunner and was desperately seeking colour images to assess the real appearance of the weathered camouflage from a distance. This lancaster I'm portraying is LM269 of 630 sqdn, one of 64 lost by the unit. Thank you again and my best wishes.
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Peter Lane
30/5/2020 11:03:47 am
Thank you so very much for this wonderful site. I am painting a 44 sqn aircraft KM-B flying under the Menai Bridge Anglesey. These images are invaluable in re creating authentic tones.
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Paul
12/8/2020 11:48:35 pm
My cousin was pilot of ED-563 and ED-553
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Rodney Willis Pettifer
8/8/2021 05:25:06 pm
On the third and fifth photograph the person cleaning the windows on top of the aircraft is my father, Willis Pettifer, he always said he was a window cleaner on Lancaster Bombers, he said he used "Brasso" on the perspex. I think he was trained as an Air Frame Fitter, based at Ludford Magna. I have a copy of the third phot in black and white.
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Colin Cottis
12/2/2023 12:34:49 pm
Hi, im just enquiring if anyone knows how the lancaster was painted as in by brush or spray.
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Steve Kerry
31/7/2023 05:29:58 pm
Just Jane was sprayed for her restoration:
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