City of Lincoln
Please note that some or all of the objects mentioned in this post are no longer visible on Google Earth or Google Maps.
Of 7,377 WW2 Lancaster bombers built only two survive, one in Canada and the other in England as part of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight. Last month a keen-eyed Google Earth user managed to find the English bomber, the City of Lincoln, flying over Huntingdon and this same image is now available in Google Local.
There’s loads of ground level photos on airliners.net and more on the plane from the RAF.
Thanks: Ant
Rather scary looking former air base to the nw. Lots of bunkers but just one dirty big runway
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Looks like this is used as storage for cars aswell (see Whipsnade thread).
Bomber probably heading for this less scary looking airbase.
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Must of been pretty hard to find, but the cammo looks effective when zoomed out abit. Anyone found the shadow?
this will probs have taken off from the IWM at duxford. As a citizen of this exact area, I am quite proud of the amount of cool things being found in my particular area.
That first base cookie monster spotted is RAF Alconbury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Alconbury), a US Air Force base. It’s been shut down, or at least the airfield side of it has. Something is still going on obviously in the housing areas and at least some of the various office and service buildings to the east. Notice how the base wraps around the village of Little Stukely. Also, check this thing out: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth You’d never know if you hadn’t seen it from the ground that this is a very strange McDonalds. It’s windowless, and shaped like a UFO. Very odd. I tried to find a picture of it, but this was the most interesting thing I could Google: http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/press/reuters_24jul97.html
One more thing in the area. When I lived on and around the US bases in England (until 1995) John Major lived just down the road from Alconbury. I think this must have been his house. Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Good stuff James - upon further research i find Alconbury is as scary as it looks. They are bomb storages silos dotted around the base. All very Cold War and thankfully a thing of the past. Huntington was, of course, John Major’s constituency.
The whole area is dotted with old air bases isnt it? The Lancaster is well placed considering the historical links with the area.
This is where the majority of Lancaster bombers were built- Avro Chadderton, Manchester (now Bae)
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the mcdonalds building is quite cool inside. It used to be a restaurant with a space theme- I cant remember the name, but McDonalds bought it in early 90’s
Where is the shadow???
Another plane in the neighbourhood.
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Also no shadow for this one
Wow! I live here!
“the mcdonalds building is quite cool inside. It used to be a restaurant with a space theme- I cant remember the name, but McDonalds bought it in early 90’s”
The old restaurant was called the Megotron, and it had little robots serving you food rather than waiters and waitresses. It was amazing.
McDonalds bought it, although it’s no longer than anymore, they sold it about a year ago.
Aw, home sweet home
The McDonalds used to be called MegAtron. :P. There’s a ground level shot and an interior shot here.
http://www.campbell-rees.co.uk/leisure.htm
I went for a birthday party there when i was really young, i’ll see if I can find the pictures.