As a lone RAF wartime aircraft circled a blue sky in the Peak District this morning, the landscape looked a picturesque scene of tranquility and calm.
But sixty-nine years ago today, the view from the ground looked very different as the brave Dam Busters crew took to the air, practicing for a stealth mission to destroy Germany's dams during World War Two.
Today a flying company offered war enthusiasts the chance to follow the identical flight path over the Howden, Derwent and Ladybower dams in a original Tiger Moth biplane - the aircraft the elite Lancaster squadron would have learnt to fly in.
The aircrew from 617 Squadron headed to the Derwent Valley to train in extreme low-level flying in bombers in preparation to destroy dams in Germany’s Ruhr Valley using top-secret ‘bouncing bombs’.
The Derwent Dam and it’s surrounding hills resembled that of some of the German dams so formed a perfect training ground for the elite Lancaster squadron.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142346/Following-slipstream-giants-Pilot-offers-low-level-Dambusters-flights-69-years-reservoir-brave-crews-trained.html#ixzz1uVpFVg4p
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