Sign up to a Dambusters flight experience and practice your low level aeroplane flying over the moors and reservoirs of Yorkshire! These Dambusters flights take off from Teesside International Airport and offer you over an hour of flying time to give you an insight into the sort of flight training the Dambusters pilots undertook. Although you’ll be in a modern two or four seater light aircraft rather than a Lancaster Bomber for these Dambusters flying lessons the views are just as impressive. Those heroic pilots had to practice flying down to 150ft (well below radar detection level) without modern navigational aids. Tricky to say the least. When Doctor Barnes Wallis asked Wing Commander Gibson in the 1955 Dambusters film how they were getting on with the low level flying he replied: ‘Ah it’s awfully hard to get accuracy. I mean to within a few feet. Especially at night over water. Still we’ll find some way of doing it’. Flying in low to drop the famous ‘bouncing bombs’ over the Ru…
£189.00
