{"id":3662,"date":"2008-05-16T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2023-02-04T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T16:07:53","slug":"65th-anniversary-of-the-dambusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/65th-anniversary-of-the-dambusters\/","title":{"rendered":"65th Anniversary of the Dambusters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to Derwent Dam in Derbyshire to witness the RAF&#8217;s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight&#8217;s (BBMF) Avro Lancaster fly over the reservoir to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Dambuster raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dambuster.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dambuster.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dambuster-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lancaster Bomber over Derwent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didnt get the best viewpoint and my best pics are ones with the plane flying away from me from north to south over the reservoirs. I wish I&#8217;d been on Derwent edge like those you can see in the photo. I&#8217;d have used a long lens and got it flying over the dam wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dambuster2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dambuster2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/dambuster2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Messed around in Lightroom for this one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lancaster was followed by a Spitfire XIX (PS915) and Hurricane IIc (LF363 YB-W) for three fly-pasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/spitfire.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/spitfire.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/spitfire-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Derwent Dam in Derbyshire to witness the RAF&#8217;s Battle of Britain Memorial Flight&#8217;s (BBMF) Avro Lancaster fly over the reservoir to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the Dambuster raids. I didnt get the best viewpoint and my best pics are ones with the plane flying away from me from north to south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[2754,2752,2753],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out-and-about","tag-battle-of-britain","tag-dambuster","tag-derwent-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}