Dambusters Remake- Full Scale Lancaster Replicas Spotted...

[Warbirdnerd]

Wow-

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2016/06 ... rs-remake/

[p51]

The forum that originally had the photos also had a photo of a FLAK88 on a trailer as well.
I haven't heard any status on the movie at all once the Lanc replicas were built. Nothing seemed to happen after that and I have no idea how far along they are with this movie, or if they've even shot any film yet.

[TOM WALSH]

In the early morning hours of Monday, May 17, 1943, nineteen modified Avro Lancaster Mk III bombers from Royal Air Force (RAF) No. 617 Squadron attacked the Moehne, Eder and Sorpe hydroelectric dams in Germany's Ruhr industrial valley. The cost of the raid was exceedingly high, eight aircraft failed to return to RAF Scampton and of the one hundred and thirty-three aircrew who participated, fifty-three were killed and three others captured. 617's Officer Commanding (OC), Wing Commander (WC) Guy Penrose Gibson, had personally hand picked the crews from RAF Bomber Command's No. 5 Group two months earlier. After that singular historic raid, code-named "Operation Chastise", the airmen from Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a sole American were immortalized as "The Dam Busters".

The American, Joseph Charles "Big Joe" McCarthy, was a burly twenty-three year old, two hundred and twenty-five pound, six foot three inch, tall Irishman from New York City.

From my forthcoming book; "AMERICAN RCAF WARRIORS"

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

[Zac Yates]

Sir Peter Jackson has a working 88mm cannon. Noisy beast when it goes off!

Not a word seems to have been said about the film since then, the replicas were stored and this was the first of them seen publicly aside from the first photo in 2009. There are also photos of a full-scale Vickers Wellington and a bomber-nosed Mosquito.