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The new landmark will be called On Freedom’s Wings, according to the organisers<\/p>\n
A life-size sculpture of a Lancaster bomber has been put up in honour of the RAF crews of World War Two.<\/p>\n
The steel structure was assembled earlier next to the A46 in Norton Disney, Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n
Two cranes were used to lift it into place before about 40 volunteers secured it with nuts and bolts.<\/p>\n
Organiser Charlie White, who chairs the Bomber County Gateway Trust, said it was “fantastic” to see the sculpture go up after nearly eight years of work<\/a>. “I can’t believe it,” he added.<\/p>\n Mr White has thanked supporters for backing the ambitious project<\/p>\n As estimated 35,000 motorists a day will see the sculpture from the road as they drive between Newark and Lincoln.<\/p>\n The area is nicknamed “bomber county” due to the number of military airfields located there during the war.<\/p>\n Plans for the sculpture were unveiled to mark the centenary of the RAF<\/a> in 2018. Each wing measures about 14.5m (47.6ft).<\/p>\n It is tilted to give the impression that the Lancaster is in flight, heading home to RAF Swinderby \u2013 a former station about 2 miles (3km) away.<\/p>\n Mr White, a farmer who owns the site, said the sculpture was “not designed as a memorial”, but he recognised people would associated the landmark with “those that served in the RAF over the world wars”.<\/p>\n The installation is a full-size model of an Avro Lancaster Mk1 bomber<\/p>\n A crowd gathered to watch the sculpture \u2013 which organisers call On Freedom’s Wings \u2013 being fixed into place.<\/p>\n Mike Lloyd, from Collingham, said he had helped with funding for the project.<\/p>\n “It’s an amazing piece of engineering,” he added. “I really can’t believe seeing it up there. It’s absolutely fantastic.”<\/p>\n Tracy Folland, whose son helped make parts of the structure, described is as a “tribute to all the men and women who served”.<\/p>\n “I’m really proud my son’s been a part of it,” she said. “I’ll try not to cry.”<\/p>\n Work will continue on landscaping and a CCTV system before the site is opened to the public. When completed, visitors will be able to sit beneath the replica bomber. <\/p>\n Listen to highlights from Lincolnshire on BBC Sounds<\/a>, watch the latest episode of Look North<\/a> or tell us about a story you think we should be covering here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake ZuckermanBBC News and Emma PetrieBBC News BBC\/Jake Zuckerman The new landmark will be called On Freedom’s Wings,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-128312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/65919de0-8c11-11f0-962a-eb143d6248a7.jpg.webp.webp\")
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