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Morning Glory by Robin Smith.
Resplendent in the morning sunrise, the Avro Lancaster sits majestically. One could almost believe it is a wild animal sniffing the air, secure in its natural habitat. Watching the scene, the total silence is occasionally broken by the chink of a dropped spanner, a young voice expresses a solved problem, fresh human silhouettes materialise through the mist from behind a massive wheel and we quickly realise that these people are not pilots or navigators. They are armourers, engineers and electricians confronting tasks and problems that demand from every individual tradesman, a duty to fulfil a common purpose, to get the aircraft ready for its next sortie that evening. The painting depicts a typical scene, silhouetted against a damp misty sunrise, the Lancaster shows off its massive paddle blade props (so nicknamed 'paddle Steamers') waiting for two more props to be aligned so the Matador bowser can be reversed in safely for re-fuelling. |
| | Item Code : RS0010 | Morning Glory by Robin Smith. - Editions Available | |
| | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | PACKS | | Signed limited edition of 500 prints. | Image size 18.5 inches x 11.5 inches (47cm x 30cm) | Artist : Robin Smith | | £60.00 | | | | Signed limited edition of 500 prints, signed by aircrew and artist. | Image size 18.5 inches x 11.5 inches (47cm x 30cm) |
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| | Plt Of John Chatterton DFC (deceased) |
| Flew thirty sorties with No.44 Sqn as a pilot on Lancasters. The missions he flew included Dusseldorf - where Bill Reid earned his Victoria Cross - and Nuremberg, where a terrible toll of aircraft were lost. Earning the nickname Ace, he also served with No.630 Sqn and No.57 Sqn during the war. Post war he became a university lecurer and farmer, his son Mike joined the RAF flying Shackletons and Nimrods in the 1970s, eventually flying the Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, tak |
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| | Flight Lieutenant Mike Chatterton |
| RAF pilot Mike Chatterton flew the Battle of Britian Memorial Flight Lancaster in the 1990s, amassing over 500 flying hours, and also is an experienced Nimrod pilot. He is the son of wartime Lancaster pilot John Chatterton and managed to take his father and some of his surviving crew for a flight in the restored Lancaster. |
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