The steel sculpture, which is nearly 100ft (29m) wide and perched in a field next to the A46 in Norton Disney, near the Nottinghamshire border, is tilted to appear as though the Lancaster is in flight. <\/p>\n
It is intended to honour the RAF crews of World War Two.<\/p>\n
White said the site was not fully open to the public because of planning permission issues with the car park.<\/p>\n
A dedication service was held at the site on Friday by the Bishop of Lincoln. It marked the start of the weekend celebrations, which include a charity ball on Friday night, afternoon tea on Saturday and a bar on Sunday.<\/p>\n
White said another BBMF flypast was expected over the weekend.<\/p>\n
The site had been open to visitors at times during the installation process because of the huge amount of public interest it had attracted, he added.<\/p>\n
“Since we opened it up, we’ve realised everybody wants to come and walk underneath and see it,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m sort of struck every day by just seeing it and walking out and being able to share it sort of with the county of Lincolnshire.<\/p>\n
“I feel ecstatic about the whole project.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The steel sculpture, which is nearly 100ft (29m) wide and perched in a field next to the A46…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-430269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}