Suzy Henderson

Yes, she's old and a little fragile, having been around since 1945 - 'Not that old' I hear you say. Maybe not, but in this case, VERA is a Lancaster Bomber. She did not carry out active service, being built in 1945 and therefore just missing out on the war. She's cared for by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, where she is privately owned. It's taken a while to organise, but our Canadian friends have managed to achieve an enormous task, in raising the funds to make this trip to Britain and grace our skies once more with another flying Lancaster. There are only two airworthy in the entire world. Incidentally, her civil registration is C-GVRA, but she has become affectionately known as VERA. She arrived here on August 9th and has been wowing crowds ever since, performing training flights, flypasts with the RAF and on board tours. A short while ago, I wrote a post about Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski, a serving Canadian gunner on a Lancaster Bomber,...

  "M.C.V. Egan twists truth and fiction until you question your perceptions.. it is a story of real love, triumph and search for self." - Beckah Boyd @ The Truthful Tarot On August 15th, 1939, an English passenger plane from British Airways Ltd. crashed in Danish waters between the towns of Nykøbing Falster and Vordingborg. There were five casualties reported and one survivor. Just two weeks before, Hitler invaded Poland. With the world at the brink of war, the manner in which this incident was investigated left much open to doubt. The jurisdiction battle between the two towns and the newly formed Danish secret police created an atmosphere of intrigue and distrust. The Bridge of Deaths is a love story and a mystery. Fictional characters travel through the world of past life regressions and information acquired from psychics as well as archives and historical sources to solve "one of those mysteries that never get solved." Based on true events and rea...

If you don't already know, there are only two airworthy, flying Lancaster Bombers in the world. Here in England, we have one of them. It's stationed at RAF Coningsby and is flown by our very own RAF team, used mainly for fly pasts and air shows. The second, is based in Canada. It's known as the Mynarski Lancaster, dedicated to the memory of Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski, a Canadian gunner serving in the RCAF during the Second World War. During the war, thousands of Canadian airmen and ground crew served with the RAF and RCAF Lancaster Squadrons throughout the UK. Meanwhile, back home in Canada, many Lancasters were being produced by workers at the Victory Aircraft factory in Malton, Toronto. So, this particular Lancaster is painted in the same colours  as the one P/O Mynarski flew with RCAF No.419 (Moose) Squadron. Touchdown in Iceland, en route to UK, 06/08/14. Andrew Mynarski Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski was born in Winnipeg in 1916 and joined the RCAF in 1...