Flying a Lysander, 2019 

My Dad who is 89 flew with you every step of the way, hands going to all the controls and buttons all along with you.

Thank you for this excellent presentation. Great photography.

Thankyou Dave and colleagues. Lovely old Lizzie and very clear appreciation of its flying qualities. Just imagine trying to land in a French meadow in the dark and then Taking off again. Another one of the brainchildren of the unappreciated designerTeddy Petter.

Thanks Dave, very much enjoyed the flight. I live close to Old Sarum, Salisbury UK the oldest operational airfield in UK. Interesting history and the Lysanders first flew from this airfield. Although the Lysanders moved away from Old Sarum I believe SOE missions were also flown into France from O.S. during WWII often on moohlit nights using Salisbury cathedral spire to navigate back to the airfield.

That was a really cool video Dave! While you were flying over the Ontario farmers fields, it made me think of the many SOE agents that parachuted or were dropped into France and Belgium from Lysanders during WWII. It makes for something truly poignant and and truly remarkable!

so sad that we at the Canadian Warplane Heritage lost our Lysander to engine failure after so many years of restoration on Aug 16 2018. She was beautiful to watch with her unique yellow and black paint job. The great good news: no injuries.

Nice aircraft. Thanks for the flight

I'm always amazed by how much quieter the Mercury is than American radials of less power. I'm sure it''s down to the British use of a collector ring exhaust system rather than straight pipes. I like the fact that you elected not to fly any higher, that would take away the enjoyment of cross country flying. Not surprised the cockpit is hot, the canopy is large enough to be a bit of a greenhouse.

thank you Dave, very nice video indeed ! as if I was the pilot... 😁

Loving the Davey Cam! Kermit would be proud! Keep it up!

What a beautiful aeroplane! Thank you for sharing.

A great video…should be more like this ! Heat in cockpit !…this is what I mean, no one’s ever mentioned anything like that before. Makes you feel your there.

They called it the hedge hopper !

Amazing

Great stuff!

Great video, Dave! I've sometimes wondered what it would be like to fly a Lysander. Thanks for showing us. Incidentally, I met you briefly at Oshkosh in 2018 when you flew the Spitfire there. So thanks also for the respect and care you give to these wonderful old airplanes.

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Hermoso !!!!!

Seems to be such a friendly aircraft...

Just so you people know this: it's the camera that makes the prop blades visible. You don't see them in real life.

Excellent!

hello, congratulations on the video and Lisander flight I have a model air plane Lisander and it flies very well I use an O.S. Sirius 325 engine

Beautiful, thank you!

Thank you Dale Lovely film and Beautiful music once again will def keep me and lots of others I'm Sure Coming Back for more.... Nice kind of West Coast, Canadian and slightly Prog feel to the music today as well.... Is the music anywhere else out there on the interweb too.... Thanks so much much enjoyed once again Chris :)

A bit of a British 'female' Bulldog?🙂 From my country of Somerset. 'Lizzie'.

Nice to " fly" in one of my favorite planes!

Very nice thank you.

Another great in-cockpit video Dave, great view you had there! Thanks for sharing. Do the slats/flaps ever deploy unevenly and cause a problem, eg. in turbulence or while manoeuvring?

Super

What a cool, though somewhat quirky airplane! Another YT video claimed a top speed of 300 mph, which seems a bit generous, given the nature of the design.

Do you leave the prop control on "coarse" for takeoff?

nearly as good as being there ... well ok , no where near as great as being there , but a great video non the less.

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Our Lysander special ops! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C9DC3e1McKU.html

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This was the worst airplane built in WW II...Everything, almost 95% is built utter garbage...it actually needs a sizable room for landing...nowhere a STOL! A loaded Noorduyn Norseman need less room to take for landing and take off! Hum...this Westland Lysander could carry two passengers(very tight) powered by a 890 hp (660 kW) Bristol Mercury XII radial piston engine But the Noorduyn Norseman, at the same time carried seven passengers(PLUS FREIGHT) with only 600 horsepower... The view of Army AOP pilots was that the Lysander was too fast for artillery spotting purposes, too slow and unmanoeuverable to avoid fighters, too big to conceal quickly on a landing field, too heavy to use on soft ground and had been developed by the RAF without ever asking the Army what was needed (90% of all Lysanders were shot down!) See the Norseman cabin(About the same number built...)AND IS STILL FLYING IN THE BUSH! The Lysanders were dumped out 70 years ago!(And the De Haviland Otter, same engine carry TEN people plus a lot of freight sand use a quarter less than that crappy Lysanded!)