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the avro lancaster

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we went to a donkey derby yesterday which included a fly by of a rare avro lancaster

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according to the blurb in the program it was “an underpowered and singularly unsuccessful aircraft”.  classic british design therefore

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there’s only two in flying condition in the world, the other being in canada

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this one did a couple of nice swoops over the local houses

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just look at the state of this chap’s aerial

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a great show

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here’s the complete set in case you are interested.  and if not, why not ?  don’t answer that.

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