Lancaster Bomber.

[melv16]

Just had one flying above my house. Looks like it was being filmed by a helicopter that was following it.
Anyone know what's going off?

[TrevorThePug]

Which part of the country?

[melv16]

Sheffield and South Yorkshire.

[bhg481]

You don't say where you are but we were driving fairly close to RAF Benson (Oxfordshire) about an hour ago and saw a Gloster Meteor fly past at fairly low level. Benson is a helicopter base and the Meteor had a non-military registration, so was nothing to do with the base.

[sherrardk]

You can track it on flight radar 24.

[Sunk]

Are you sure it was a Lancaster and not a Wellington Bomber.
10 miles from Sheffield is Derwent Reservoir where the Dambusters practiced their bouncing bomb raid on the Ruhr Valley.
Might be a connection.

[Sunk]

Apparently Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings game is doing a remake of the Dam Busters.

[TrevorThePug]

I couldn't see any LBs over that way on FR24, maybe just returning from the BoB display in Kent.

There was an RAF Airbus A400m, perhaps it was that?

[bookbinder]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6440769/Oscar-winning-director-Peter-Jackson-reveal-secret-truth-iconic-Dambusters-raid.html

[Buenchico]

Keep an eye on the BBMF Facebook page (particularly the 'Visitor Posts' section, where there's already a question about the BBMF Lancaster and a helicopter over Sheffield). Someone might well provide an answer soon:
https://www.facebook.com/BBMF.Official/

[New Judge]

//Are you sure it was a Lancaster and not a Wellington Bomber.
10 miles from Sheffield is Derwent Reservoir where the Dambusters practiced their bouncing bomb raid on the Ruhr Valley.//

It would be very unlikely to be a "Wimpy". First of all recognition - easy-peasy as the Lancaster has four engines and the Wellington two. Second, the dambusters flew Lancs not Wellingtons so if there was anything going on to do with "Operation Chastise" commemorations or re-enactments a Lancaster would be used. Last of all (and probably a clincher) is that there are no airworthy Wellingtons in the world. In fact there are only two complete survivors. One is at the Brooklands Museum in Surrey. It was recovered from the bottom of Loch Ness where it ditched in 1940 during a training flight. The other is in the Royal Air Force Museum at RAF Cosford. Neither is airworthy nor ever likely to be.

[melv16]

Someone on another site has been saying that it's a repair/maintenance flight.

[Mamyalynne]

Phew!

I was hoping it wasn't Fiona Bruce filming for Antiques Roadshow as some here might have scrambled a party to shoot it down after her last jaunt in the air.

[jno]

Jackson's been planning a Dambusters film forever. He's held the rights so long that his original partner was David Frost. As far as I know, he's still busy making his Beatles film.

[melv16]

Found out it was a training flight that was being filmed for a documentary to be shown on TV.