OK, so it's not a truck. But it is fantastic:
Yes, it's the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Avro Lancaster (the only flying Lancaster bomber in the world one of only two flying Lancaster bombers in the world - there's another in Canada) making a pass or three over the Truck & Driver stand - and all to the strains of Atomic Kitten singing Ladies' Night!
I'll take four Merlins over the sound of Heidi, Keisha et al any day...
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Actually, a note in my anorak pocket reminds me that FM213 is alive and well, and flying in Canada!
There is another flying Lancaster call 'Just Jane'. She was given her air safety cirtificate for the very first time. She was boxed up from the factory at the end of the war. You'll remember that !!! She was never flown in anger.
'Just Jane" (aka NX611) HAS flown, but not since 1970, when it was flown from Hullavington to Blackpool Airport, This was the last of its 14 flights in the U.K., having been ferried home in 1965 from Australia to Biggin Hill for preservation.
Prior to that, it served with the French Aeronavale.
Having had a period on display at Blackpool, and then as the gate guard at RAF Scampton, it is now in fully taxiable condition (including lifting the tailwheel) at East Kirkby in Lincolnshire.